Our School

Dr. S. Horace Scott was the president of the Coatesville Area School Board when he was given the honor to lay the first cornerstone of the new school. Dr. Scott and the other school board members had the taxpayers thinking that they were a bunch of radicals when they came up with the idea of adding a gymnasium and auditorium back then. The cost of building Scott Senior high school was $700,000.00. The recommendation of school officials was to name the new school of  S. Horace Scott High School to honor a man who had taken a leading part in  educational for 50 years while still being the head of the school board.  Dr. Scott was the only one to vote against the idea. This did create some controversy in naming the school after a living person but was later resolved.

The site of the new school created some national publicity as an excavator discovered graphite on the property. The head of the Chester County’s Mineralogy Department informed the Chester County Natural History Society about the fine. The Natural History Society informed the school board that they should open a graphite mine instead of a school.  A mineralogist was brought in to verify the fine but found other things as well such as fluorite, siderite, and rhodechrosite. It was a great scientific find as it was recognized by scientist for many years that there are more minerals in Chester County than in any similar area in the US.

The architecture of the new school was the colonial design also known as the “Post and Lintel” type of construction (horizontal blocks supported by columns and walls – no arches or curves).   The school was finished in November 22, 1939.