{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox school | name = Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School | former_name = Jefferson Davis High School | image = | image_size = | address = 3420 Carter Hill Road | city = Montgomery, Alabama | zipcode = 36111 | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|32|20|37|N|86|15|39|W|display=inline,title}} | ceeb = 011892 | schooltype = Public | established = {{start date and age|1968|p=1}} | principal = Phillip Brooks | grades = 9–12 | enrollment = 1,592 (2023–2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0102430&SchoolPageNum=3&ID=010243001024 |title=Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=December 22, 2024}}</ref> | ratio = 20.02<ref name=NCES /> | staff = 79.50 (FTE)<ref name=NCES /> | colors = Purple & gold <br> {{color box|purple}}{{color box|gold}} | nickname = Jaguars | motto = Those who stay will be champions! | website = {{URL|https://www.mps.k12.al.us/o/jag}} }}
'''Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School''' (formerly '''Jefferson Davis High School''') is a public high school with grades 9 through 12 located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The principal is Mr. Phillip Brooks. The school is part of the Montgomery Public Schools system.
==History== The school was named after the only-ever president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, in the 1960s, a century after the Confederacy collapsed.<ref>{{cite news|last=Griesbach|first=Rebecca|url=https://www.al.com/educationlab/2022/11/montgomery-effort-to-rename-robert-e-lee-jefferson-davis-schools-first-to-test-alabama-monuments-law.html|title=Renaming of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis schools will be first to test Alabama monuments law|publisher=AL.com|date=November 16, 2022|access-date=June 7, 2023}}</ref>
In 2020, the school district's board of education voted to change the school's name from Jefferson Davis High School,<ref>{{cite web|author=Johnson, Krista|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/education/2020/07/14/montgomery-high-schools-jefferson-davis-robert-e-lee-sidney-lanier-confederacy-name-changes-board/5433727002/|title=Montgomery school board votes to change the Confederate names of three high schools|newspaper=Montgomery Advertiser|date=July 14, 2020|access-date=July 15, 2020}}</ref> a decision that was affirmed in 2022 despite two years of opposition from local pro-Confederacy groups. The school is to be renamed JAG High School, in honor of three civil rights leaders: Frank Minis Johnson, a judge who ruled in favor of Rosa Parks to strike down segregation policies in Montgomery; pastor and activist Ralph Abernathy; and Robert Graetz, a minister who helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.<ref>{{cite news|author=Bowerman, Ashley|url=https://www.wsfa.com/2022/11/11/mps-board-approves-name-changes-2-schools/|title=Montgomery school board votes to change the Confederate names of three high schools|publisher=WSFA|date=November 10, 2022|access-date=June 7, 2023}}</ref>
==Notable alumni== {{Alumni|date=May 2026}} * Travis Bell, professional football nose tackle * Craig Brazell, former MLB player * Gwendolyn Boyd, former president of Alabama State University and Delta Sigma Theta sorority; valedictorian in 1973 * Artur Davis, former Democratic Congressman of Alabama * Ladarius Gunter, former NFL player * Michael Henig, former college football quarterback * Glenn Howerton, actor, writer, and producer * Jamey Johnson, country music singer and songwriter * Robert Johnson, former NFL player * Octavia Spencer (1988), actress * Curtis Stewart, former NFL player * George Teague, former NFL player * George Thornton, former NFL player * Lou Thornton, former MLB player *Jasmine Walker, WNBA player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jasmine Walker |url=https://www.usab.com/basketball/players/womens/w/walker-jasmine.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504164702/https://www.usab.com/basketball/players/womens/w/walker-jasmine.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref> * Davern Williams, former NFL player
==Enrollment, demographics== Enrollment for 2007 was 1,508 students; 48 percent was male and 52 percent was female. Ethnicities enrolled at the school were white, black, and Hispanic. African-American enrollment was 94 percent, white enrollment was 2 percent, Hispanic enrollment was 2 percent, and Asian enrollment was 1%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/school/jefferson-davis-high-school-al.html|title=Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama (AL)|access-date=March 10, 2010}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.mps.k12.al.us/o/jag School website]
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Category:High schools in Montgomery, Alabama Category:Public high schools in Alabama Category:Name changes due to the George Floyd protests
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