\ AHS # 5 1900 -- Luckily , this temporary situation only lasted for six months , to the end of the school year in May . The city had approved a new high school before the fire in 1899 and in September , 1900 , we opened " the finest high school in the south ". Located at East Ninth Street at Trinity , the red brick building had eighteen classrooms and other pioneering features . The building was called " Old Red " because of the red bricks that were used . The building became John Allen Junior High in 1925 and burned in 1956 .
AHS # 6 1925 -- As the high school students went home for the Thanksgiving Holiday , they packed their books and lunchboxes , leaving " Old Red " forever . It became John Allen Junior High School , and the high school students moved into the expanded old Allan building at 12th and Rio Grande . Renovations in 1924-25 had added eighteen classrooms to the 1915 building . This building would be Austin High from 1925-1975 . Fifty years ! ! House Park , the West Avenue Gym , and Annex of twenty-four more classrooms and the Band Hall on West Avenue were all developed during the Rio Grande years .
1953 -- Three other new high schools were opened in Austin , and we were officially renamed " Stephen F . Austin High School ". But everyone still calls us " Austin High " or " Austin of Austin ".
AHS # 7 1975 -- A new building was constructed at 1715 West First Street ( now known as West Cesar Chavez ) in what had been part of the Zilker Park tract . The land was part of330 acres donated to the city by A . J . Zilker in 1927 . The land preparation for the school cost $ 1,000,000 , and the building cost $ 7,500,000 . The first day of school was August 24 , 1975 . The first Dedication Day was May 2 , 1976 to " dedicate the building as a public school ". Through the years , Dedication Day has become our Birthday party for the school .
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