History
The school was founded in 1971, with classes first held in the Brown Hotel at Fourth Street and Broadway in downtown Louisville. Brown was the first "magnet school" in the JCPS district, and it enrolled students from all parts of Jefferson County. As the school grew, the neighboring Brown Building was rehabilitated to accommodate it. The lower nine of the ten-story Brown Building were ultimately used by the school for its first ten years of existence, before the school moved to its present location on S. First Street, south of Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
The founding director of J. Graham Brown School was Murray State University graduate Martha Ellison, who, during her earlier teaching career, was the English teacher of playwright Marsha Norman. Upon her retirement, Ellison was succeeded by her longtime assistant director, Douglas Proctor. The Martha A. Ellison Peace Green, across First Street from the school, is named in her honor. The current principal of Brown School is Timothy R. Healy.
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