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Mount Pleasant High School is a public secondary school located in Wilmington, Delaware. The current principal is Heather Austin. There were 908 students enrolled in the fall for the 2008-2009 school year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://profiles.doe.k12.de.us/SchoolProfiles/School/Default.aspx?checkSchool=196&districtCode=31 )〕 It was the first public high school in Delaware to offer the International Baccalaureate program, followed by John Dickinson High School. ==History== Mount Pleasant was one of the first schools built following the passing of the free school law of 1829. On September 22, 1830, Joseph Orr sold a lot to the School Committee of School District #2 (note: School District #1 was Naamans Creek, now the Claymont Stone School). The original Mount Pleasant schoolhouse still stands today, located on an acre of land which is now part of Bellevue State Park. When William DuPont Jr. remodeled Woolton Hall, now called the Bellevue Mansion, he also changed the exterior of the Mount Pleasant schoolhouse from stone to its present Colonial Revival style. In 1865, the school moved to a new location on Philadelphia Pike, just across the street from the Mount Pleasant Methodist Church, and then again in 1932 to a much larger facility on Duncan Road (now the home of Mount Pleasant Elementary School). In 1958, Mount Pleasant High School opened at its present location on Washington Street Extension. In 1978, the Mount Pleasant Special School District and other school districts in Delaware dissolved due to desegregation, and Mount Pleasant High School became a part of the New Castle County School District. Quinton Sterling became the first African-American principal of the high school. In 1981, the larger district split into four separate school districts (Brandywine, Christina, Colonial and Red Clay Consolidated), and Frank J. Furgele became the superintendent of the newly formed Brandywine School District. The school celebrated their 175th anniversary in a series of events during homecoming weekend, October 14 and 15, 2005, including the inaugural Mount Pleasant Hall of Fame. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Pleasant High School (Wilmington, Delaware)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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