WORCESTER – Like many students at South High Community School, one of Jason Cannalonga’s earliest memories of the building was just walking inside.
“That ginormous hallway when you first come in … the ramps, the big, expansive hallways,” said the Worcester resident, who graduated from South High in 1991. “Coming from Sullivan Middle School, it was a whole different experience.”
Pretty soon, that hallway – and the rest of the old high school – will just be memories, as South High is torn down to make way for its replacement being build yards away on Apricot Street.
Opened in 1978, the old South High was itself a replacement for another aging school building, the original South High at 14 Richards St. When it opened, the high school was notable not just for its uncommon design – particularly its open-classroom concept – but its name, which Superintendent Maureen Binienda said was not just a label.