 Northern High School was made by George Watts Carr the same architect that made the Hill Building

On September 1, 1955 Northern High School opened with an enrollment of 502 students in grades 9–12.The students came from the feeder schools of Glenn, Hillandale, Mangum and Bragtown schools.The then new Northern High School had only 17 classrooms, a home economics department, a shop, a library, and a gymnasium.