Ballard-Hudson Senior High School was built in 1949 as the only high school in Macon for African Americans in grades nine through twelve.
In 1970, the same year a federal court required the integration of all public schools in Georgia, Ballard-Hudson Senior High School was reorganized and renamed as Ballard Hudson Junior High "B" and along with the newer Ballard Hudson "A" Junior High further west on Anthony Road, became the feeder schools of the consolidated Southwest Senior High School (formally Willingham Boys and McEvoy Girls High Schools).
The 1949 campus was demolished and replaced on the same site with Southeast High School.
It competed in the Georgia Interscholastic Association and won state championships in basketball.
[1] In January 2008 a new Ballard Hudson Middle School was built, as a part of the 2005 Capital Improvement Program, funded by the ESPLOST.