title: Matthew Gilbert High School
text: # Matthew Gilbert High School
  
  Matthew Gilbert High School was a high school for black students in Jacksonville, Florida. Like many black high schools of the time, it was reclassified as a junior high school after integration. It is now Matthew Gilbert Middle School.
  
  ## Athletics
  
  The Gilbert Panthers went undefeated (11–0) and won the FIAA State Football championship in 1958.
  
  ## Notable alumni
  
  * Henry Lee Adams Jr., first African-American judge in the middle district of Florida.
  * Bob Hayes, Olympic sprinter, NFL Wide Receiver, the only athlete to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.
  