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DuPont Manual High School is a secondary school located in the Old Louisville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky and serving students in grades 9–12. It is a part of the Jefferson County Public School District. Manual opened in 1892 as an all-male manual training school. It was the second public high school in Louisville. Manual merged with Louisville Girls High School in 1950 and moved into their Gothic style three story building, built in 1934. As a coeducation school, Manual experienced a decline in discipline and test scores in the 1970s.

In 1984, Manual became a magnet school, allowing students from throughout the district to apply to five specialized programs of study, or magnets. Its magnet programs include the Youth Performing Arts School (YPAS), one of two programs in Kentucky allowing high school students to major in performing arts. In 1991, the U.S. Department of Education recognized Manual as a National School of Excellence. In 2004, after conducting a poll, Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper listed Manual as one of Louisville residents' ten favorite buildings. Manual and Male High School have the oldest football rivalry in the state, dating back to 1893. Manual's football team has won five state titles and claims two national championships. In the 1980s and 1990s Manual became a prominent academic school and has been included several times in lists of America's top high schools in Redbook and Newsweek magazines.