Stephens-Lee High School was built on the site of Catholic Hill School in 1923. The city school board closed Stephens-Lee in 1965. For the next four years, black students attended the newly built South French Broad High School, where there was some integration of the faculty but none in the student body. In 1969, the formerly white Lee Edwards High School was renamed Asheville High School, and students of both races began learning there, together in one school.