William Penn High School (North Carolina)

{{short description|Historic school building in North Carolina, United States}}

{{For|other schools with this name|William Penn School (disambiguation)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = William Penn High School

| nrhp_type =

| image = WPHS (former), High Point.jpg

| caption = Seen from the street

| location= Washington Dr., High Point, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|35|57|43|N|79|59|51|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| built = {{Start date|1910}}-1911, 1929-1930

| architecture = Colonial Revival

| added = November 16, 1978

| area = {{convert|6.5|acre}}

| refnum = 78001959{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

William Penn High School, also known as High Point Normal & Industrial Institute, is a historic high school for African-American students located at High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The high school building was built in 1910–1911, and enlarged and renovated in 1929–1930. It is a two-story, 12 classroom Colonial Revival-style brick building. It has a projecting three-bay entrance pavilion. Two other buildings associated with the High Point Normal & Industrial Institute are on the property. The Institute was established by Quakers in 1891. They were built about 1910 and are a gable end frame structure sheathed in corrugated metal with a distinctive monitor roof and a brick building with a low pitched roof. The school closed in 1968{{Cite web | author=H. McKelden Smith and Jerry L. Cross| title=William Penn High School | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = n.d.| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/GF0017.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2014-12-01}} and was re-opened in 2003 as an arts magnet high school, Penn-Griffin School for the Arts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.williampennproject.org/closing-and-reopening|title=Closing and Reopening|website=williampennproject|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.