 Students were drawn from the black high school, former William Penn High School (now Penn-Griffin School for the Arts) and from the white high school, High Point Central High School.It was named after Thomas Wingate Andrews (1882–1937), who served as superintendent of High Point schools.The current principal is Marcus Gause, formerly the principal of the Early College at NC A&T, a non-traditional public high school in Greensboro, NC.