The public high school designated for Georgetown is in the process of receiving its official name, one that will be familiar to many in the neighborhood: John Thompson Jr. High School.
The high school, which was established by DC in the fall of 2023 and occupies the former Georgetown Day School on MacArthur Blvd. in the Palisades, is the in-boundary high school for Georgetown students. The school was created to address overcrowding issues at Jackson Reed (the former Wilson High School). Now students who attend Hardy Middle School will have the right to continue on to the new high school.
For its first years, the new school has been named MacArthur High School, after the street it’s on (which itself was named after Gen. Douglas MacArthur). It was always intended to be a placeholder name as the city considered a proper permanent name. Earlier this year, after support for the idea of naming the school after the legendary GU basketball coach gained traction, the decision was made to go with that idea. Legislation putting that decision into action was recently approved. I am not sure when the official renaming will take place, but I would guess it will be before the end of the school year.
The sports teams were previously known as the MacArthur Mammoths, but I understand that the new mascot will be the Jaguars.
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