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These histories are a bit sketchy, some very sparse. Contributions are gratefully accepted. Perhaps our local historical societies have some good information.
Townships were surveyed in five square mile territories, with some a bit larger to accommodate the lake shore. Within these townships school sub districts were designated, and within each school district a school was created at one time or another. Actual school buildings came and went over time. At the time of the records of this project, the Lake County School Board governed most of the public schools in the county, the exceptions apparently being Painesville City and Fairport Harbor.
In Spring of 1921, the Bing Law required all Ohio children to attend school until they were 18. This increased attendance in all the school districts. Those who wished a high school education were transported to Painesville or Willoughby, but with the new law in 1921 and increased need, high schools came into being in most villages.
Joint sub-district schools were located in one township but also served the adjacent township.
Some sources used for most of this history:
The following is taken from Concord Township: Its Heritage, Its Festivals and Its Horizons compiled and edited by Amy Kohankie Rust and Marcia Rust Backos (Fairport Harbor, Ohio: Lake Photo Engraving, 1976) pp. 23-27, and center-fold map. Sub Districts were determined using this map and the 1915 Lake County Atlas. http://arcgis.lakecountyohio.gov/ScannedSurveys/Atlas/1915/
District schools began about 1840, and the system grew to about 9 Sub Districts, two of which were joint Districts with Mentor and Painesville.
Sub District No. 1: Stone School was the Township’s third school, built in 1840. It is on the east side of Painesville-Ravenna Road, just north of Concord-Hambden Road, the intersection being known as Wilson’s Corners. Mrs. Lloyd Pomeroy was a teacher there. The school is still there at 7124 Painesville-Ravenna Road, under the management of the Concord Township Recreation Department, serving as the Concord History Museum and records repository. It closed as a school in 1923 and became a rental home.
Joint Subdistrict with Painesville Township: The Fairgrounds school was located at the current 1030 Bank Street near the Fairgrounds at the time, just west of Marshall Drive. It was later added to for the Grange Hall and now His House Ministries. It was probably built about 1864. This area was annexed to Painesville Township, so not included in Concord after 1874.
Sub District No. 2: Stone Jug School was at the corner of Morley and Kellogg Roads, the land being leased in 1861.
Joint Sub District No. 3: Little Mountain School was on the east side of Morley Road near the Geauga County border.
Sub District No. 5: On the northeast corner of Painesville-Warren and Conley Roads. Huntoon School was likely built about 1858 on Painesville-Warren Road near Williams Road. It was later moved to Conley Road at Painesville-Warren Road. It had a well drilled, the first Concord school to have a well. Teachers recalled by student Wallace Pomeroy were Anna Corlett, Nellie Drake, Lutie Crofoot, Hattie Card, Ellen Ostrander and Maude Loomis.
Sub District 6: Judd’s Corners School was located at the south side of Girdled Road just east of Concord-Hambden Roads on land leased from Samuel H. Judd in 1858. It has been remodeled as a private home.
Joint Sub District with Painesville Twp.: Mentor Avenue School was built on Mentor Avenue, 200 yards east of Nye Road. In 1876 the Concord land was annexed to Painesville Township. A second room was added to the school about 1900. The new school, Clyde C. Hadden may have been built in 1940, although the property card with the Auditor’s office states it was built in 1928.
Old Sub District 8: Maple Point School was at the intersection of Morley and Prouty Roads. It opened in 1922 and closed in 1933 at consolidation.
Sub District No. 8: Prouty Road School, west of Little Mountain Road was sold to be a residence, but during remodeling, it burned.
Joint Sub District with Chardon: Woodruff School, also known as Slate Hill School and Mud Street School was at the intersection of Girdled Road and Mud Street, now known as Auburn Road. This school had a spring for drinking water. It was dismantled at the time of school consolidation.
Fairport is not included in these records as it was not part of the Lake County School Board at the time. It had withdrawn as District No. 1 of the Painesville School Board and became a separate village school system on April 3, 1893. After a disastrous fire at the Plum Street school in 1910, a new building on the same site opened January, 1912. It had 14 classrooms, all occupied by grades one through eight. The Third Street School was for grades one through four, but was often so crowded as to force some classes to be taught in local churches and other locations. In 1919 land was purchased for the high school. A ninth grade was added to Plum Street School so those students could continue to the local high school, which opened in September 1921 for seventh through twelfth grades. There were 17 classrooms, gym, library, teacher’s lounge, and offices. In 1924 the schools were renamed in honor of the three Ohio presidents who had died. Fairport Harding High School, Garfield School on Third Street (now the police station), and McKinley School on Plum Street. In 1923 Fairport terminated its status as an Exempted Village School District and became part of the Lake County Board of Education. It reverted to its own district again in 1936. [W. R. Branthoover, et al., A History of Fairport Harbor Ohio 1976 (Fairport Harbor, Ohio: Lake Photo Engraving Inc., 1976) pp. 159-69.]
School Sub Districts were an ever-changing enigma. The 1915 Atlas appears to have eight districts. This is verified by Grace E. Parks, author of 20th Century Memoirs of Kirtland, Ohio (Albuquerque, NM: Creative Designs, Inc., 1997). She relates her experiences at the one-room Peck’s Corners School District No. 5 school, west of her home. From the Atlas, this was on Kirtland-Chardon Road just west of Chillicothe Road. There is a picture of the school in 1918, and a wonderful description of her school life in general on pages 134-151. Miss Edna Mills, later Mrs. Morelle Upham was the teacher. There is a sketch of Waite Hill School, 1923, on page 145.
Mrs. Parks related that the schools began to be consolidated in about 1920, District 5 being the last to consolidate in 1922. She was always the only one in her grade level in District 5. Children were transported in “kid-hacks,” pickup trucks decked out with benches. She had a class of 18 at the consolidated school with 33 in the 7th and 8th grades. There was a chapel between the school grounds and the town hall, and she infers that this is in the village. Miss Mattie Pratt was the teacher.
Mrs. Parks talks about the high school. When she entered there were 48 students, 16 of them freshmen. Mr. Perry Harrington was superintendent and there were three teachers: Frank Ebeling, Miss Leona Ellsworth, and Miss Marian Green. Mrs. Parks graduated in a class of 18 in 1927. That year the new high school was opened.
Sub District 2: Riverside School was a primary school. It is located at 9045 Baldwin Road, Kirtland Hills. It is now the Children’s Schoolhouse Nature Park. The teachers there were Eugenie Pomeroy, Marie Freshley, 1st grade, Florence Evell, 2nd grade. A book, Oral Histories of Riverside School, Kirtland Township Schools by Jack Daniels, unpublished, 1990, found at Morley Library and a few other locations, consists of interviews with students, Ida Logan Cottrell, Ray and Florence Sheffield, Mildred Janet Eville Scarsbrook, and Glen Sheffield. It has a Lake County Historical Society Heritage designation.
Sub District 3, Cox School at 7386 Eagle Mills Road, was built in 1860 has a Lake County Historical Society Heritage Home designation.
Sub District 6: Leslie Wilcox was a student at the Parks District School at the intersection of Kirtland-Chardon and Sperry Roads. He recalled two teachers, Nellie Whitcomb and Mattie B. Pratt. Ben Daniels was also a student there with Miss Pratt. (Anne B. Prusha, A History of Kirtland, Ohio [Mentor, Ohio: Lakeland Community College Press, 1982]; p. 96.)
District 8 school was on the north corner of the intersection of Kirtland-Chardon and Booth Roads. At one point it was labeled as Sweet School, perhaps because It was near the Sweet property in 1898. There does not seem to be a packet, but a few torn pieces of monthly reports and an exam report show the teacher as Amelia Brumenschenkel and the dates are the end of 1920-21 school year. The Pupil Home Record for 1920 for Amelia Brumenschenkel states that the teacher the previous year was Edna Mills.
Kirtland Subdistrict 12: In the Southwest corner of Kirtland Township, this was a Joint District with Willoughby Subdistrict 12. Children attended the Pleasant Valley School on Cleveland-Chardon Road just over the border.
LeRoy has some additional history on the Lake County Genealogical Society Site with some photos from LeRoy Heritage Association. LeRoy had eight subdistricts at the time. This is mostly from the 1915 atlas:
Sub District 1: The school is in the center of the district, on the north side of Painesville-Warren Road at the intersection of Girdled Road. It was called Flatiron School, presumably due to the angle of the intersection. It was also labeled “Brakeman” School. It was replaced nearby with Leroy Elementary School, 13613 Painesville Warren Rd. built 1927, slated to close 2019.
Sub District 2: In the north central part of the township, the school was located on the east side of Paine Road, just north of Carter Road near Paine Falls.
Sub District 3: In the northeast corner of the township, the school was located on the east side of Trask Road, just south of Ford Road and the NorthEast Cemetery. This school overcrowded at times and some classes were held in a nearby church, hence the nickname, “Sabbath School.”
Sub District 4: In the northwest corner of the township, the school was on the east side of Vrooman Road a bit south of Carter Road. The area is sometimes called Carter’s Corners.
Sub District 5: LeRoy Center, the school was located on the southwest corner of Paine and Brakeman Roads.
Sub District 6: This district is on the east side of the township in the center. The school was located on the west side of Brockway Road. It was about 1/3 of the way from Leroy Center Road to Trask Road.
Sub District 7: This is in the southeast corner of the township, the school located on the northeast corner of Painesville-Warren Road and Thompson Road just where the Plank Road begins and heads southeast.
Joint Subdistrict was a joint venture with Hambden Township in Geauga County. Their students used the school on the West side of Brakeman Road, one mile south of Painesville-Warren Road. At one time there were also Joint Subdistricts with Concord, which was annexed to Concord, and with Thompson (the first Leroy School), and with Perry.
Information for Madison comes from:
Madison is the largest township, consisting actually of two townships, one of which is the “gore” or North Madison area. The Village was, and still is, in the center of the township. At one time there were 21 Sub Districts in Madison Township, four of which operated jointly with neighboring townships. The 1915 Atlas shows school buildings in districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18 and Village.
By 1916, the districts were highly consolidated, leaving a grade 1-8 elementary school in Unionville (District 4), North Madison (12), South Madison (18), Rural Madison, and Madison Village. There was a three-year high school in North Madison and a four-year high school in Madison Village. The Sub District Numbers, which had been renumbered at one point, were apparently dispensed with by 1916, as well.
Sub District 1: Called Schoolhouse #1, at 1454 Bennett Road north of East Chapel Road, it is a brick building. It has a Lake County Historical Society Heritage designation. It was built about 1864, although the property card with the auditor’s office states it was built in 1850.
District 4: This was the sub district where the first Madison Township schoolhouse was built in 1802. (Denise Michaud & the Madison Historical Society, Images of America: Madison (Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010) p110-117.) Unionville’s John Adams Elementary School, was authorized as a three-room schoolhouse in 1917. This was a joint sub-district, as Unionville encompasses both sides of County-Line Road.
District 12: North Madison was built in 1906. It was closed and demolished in 2013. It was at 6735 North Ridge Road, on the north side just east of Hubbard Road (Route 528). District 12 also had a three-year high school. The southern four rooms, office, and basement where opened in 1907. In 1909 an addition of four more rooms and basement were authorized.
District 18: South Madison School was located on the north side of Ford Road just east of Route 528. It was built in 1873, closed in 1924, spit in two parts and moved. It is now a private residence. A replacement school was built nearby in 1923-24.
Madison Village: The new Memorial High School was built in 1922 at 92 East Main Street. The original building had eight classrooms, library, office, gym, and auditorium. It closed in 2012 and was demolished. South Elementary School is at that address now. The earliest schoolhouse in Madison according to the “History of Madison Local Schools” was in this district, then called Centerville, in 1815. (Note discrepancy with Unionville being the earliest school.)
Information comes from these sources:
- Homer J. Gault, ed., History of Mentor Headlands and Vicinity, Lake County, Ohio (Fairport Harbor, Ohio: Neal Printing Company, 1957), “Schools” by Sarah Waterman p. 39-43.
- Walt Iliff, Jim Michels, Colette Harden, “A History of the Mentor School District,” part of Shore Jr. High School's 50th Anniversary Vol. 1, Issue 1, June 10, 2005; digital presentation at (http://filecabinet1.eschoolview.com/FC7458EB-75BB-44E2-8F20-9926604091A3/Shores_50th_Newsletter.pdf : accessed 2 March 2019)
- Kathie Pohl, Joan Kapsch, Sue Muehlhauser, Mentor: The First 200 Years, (Mentor, Ohio: Mentor Bicentennial Committee/Old Mentor Foundation, 1997) pp. 38-41.
- Thomas G. Matowitz Jr., Images of America: Mentor (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2015), p. 19)
In 1915, there were eight Sub Districts, Mentor Special School District, and Mentor Village. In 1921 it was decided to reorganize the Mentor Township and Mentor Special District into one Mentor Special Rural Township School District. About 1923 schools were consolidated from eight sub districts into two new elementary schools, both on Lake Shore Boulevard.
Mentor Village Schools: The Center Street School, a replacement, was built in 1914 and continued until 1920. It is on the northwest corner of Mentor Avenue at Center Street behind the then high school. It became the annex to the high school for 9th graders. At 7482 Center Street, it has a Lake County Historical Society Heritage designation.
The high School at the northwest corner of Mentor Avenue at Center Street ran through the 11th grade. It later became Center Street Elementary School, and is now condominiums. A new high school was opened in fall of 1923 on Mentor Avenue at Hopkins Road.
Sub District 1: The southeast corner of Mentor Avenue (US 20) at Reynolds Road (SR 306).
Sub District 2: Built in 1860, the school is located near the point inside the northeast “flatiron” of the intersection of Johnnycake Ridge and Chillicothe Roads. It has been fully remodeled as a residence at 7871 Chillicothe Road. A new home is now closer to the point. (Lake County Auditor’s property search)
Joint Sub District 3: Little Mountain School was right at the intersection of Mentor, Kirtland, and Concord Townships, on the east side of King Memorial Road. Kirtland students used this joint district school.
Sub District 4: School was on the north side of Plains Road just west of Collins Road.
Joint Sub District 5; Plains School was on the north side of Lakeshore Boulevard at about Seneca. It was near the border with Willoughby Township and students from both townships attended.
Sub District 6: On the south side of Lake Shore Boulevard east of French Bl. In 1921 Districts 6 and 7 merged as Blackbrook School.
Sub District 7: This school was on the north side of Lake Shore Boulevard, about a third of the way from S.R. 44 to Corduroy Road. In 1921 Districts 6 and 7 merged as Blackbrook School.
Sub District 6 and 7: North Mentor, later Blackbrook – Hettie Brown writes on the back of her first sheet of grades 1-6: “The absence was really all caused from bad colds and among the younger children who came in the back the Pier boys day to work. I think they really tried in all cases to be present.” The second page: On the back it states, “All cases of absence outside of Kenneth Schusk I think were necessary either sickness or in 2 cases 2 day of digging crabs.” Nov. 6, 1922, on the back it states: “As I can not remember I have made out two reports-one for 18 days one for 19.” Many of the dates are incorrect for this teacher. It appears that they were not actually done at the end of each four-week period, but done later.
Sub District 8: Mentor Headlands, long before called District 11. There was a brick building constructed in 1884 on the south side of Headlands Road, ½ mile west of Corduroy Road, where Lake Overlook Drive Extension now is. Lakeview School was closed in 1918 and from then until 1923, the students were transported to Grand River to school. It was torn down in 1935. Students from this district progressed to Painesville High School.
Special School District: The school was located on Hopkins Road, just south of the Mentor Municipal Cemetery. It changed hands a few times, later became the Mentor police station, and was razed in 1983. In 1921 the Mentor Township and Mentor Special District reorganized into one board of education. It was called the Mentor Special Rural Township School District. At that time, they agreed to build a high school at the northeast corner of Hopkins Road and Mentor Avenue. It was constructed in 1922 at 8979 Mentor Avenue, and is now Memorial Junior High School.
Information comes from:
The current plans for this school district include closing current elementary schools -- Madison Avenue, Hale Road, and Clyde C. Hadden, and replacing them with two new larger schools, one at 845 Madison Avenue, the other at 12428 Concord-Hambden Road. This will be in effect for the 2019-20 school year, barring difficulties. Later Sixth through twelfth grades will all be at the Riverside/John R. Williams campus, and LaMuth Middle school will become the third elementary school and Melridge will close.
Sub District 2: The Fairgrounds school was a joint Sub District with Concord Township. It was located at the current 1030 Bank Street near the Fairgrounds at the time, just west of Marshall Drive. It was later added to for the Grange Hall and now His House Ministries. It was probably built about 1864. This area was annexed to Painesville Township from Concord after 1874. The area is currently in Painesville City but in the Riverside School District. During the time period 1916-1923 it was called School #2 and 4, Rural, or Old Fairgrounds.
District 2 and 3: – Nursery School, now Hale Road School is in nursery country, one of the largest industries in the county at the time. Many of the students were part time depending on planting and harvest. The building was built in 1890, its Legal Description being “T[1 L[12 A[NURSERY SCHOOL” from the Auditor’s property card. It is slated for closure in 2019.
Sub District 4: A house at 653 Madison Avenue, on the north side of the road just past Woodworth Avenue, has been remodeled into a private residence. It was built about 1850 per auditor’s property card. The Lake County Historical Society Heritage designation paperwork calls it Seeley Road Schoolhouse, built in 1841. Could this have been moved from Leroy?
The current school called Madison Avenue Elementary School, at 845 Madison Avenue, was built in 1928 and is being replaced on the same property and address for the 2019 school year and to be called Riverview Elementary.
Sub District 7: Richmond, now Grand River had an elementary school on the west side of River Street, in the middle of the block between Singer and Murphy Streets. Merrick Hutchinson School was built in the same block but closer to Singer Street in 1926 and razed in 2014. It was on River street on the north east corner of Singer Street.
Sub District 8: Liberty School was just north of Painesville City then, on the north side of Elm Street about 1500 feet west of Argonne Drive, just south of the Fairport Harbor border.
Sub District 9: Mentor Avenue School was on the north side of Mentor Avenue, 200 yards east of Nye Road. This was a Joint Sub District with Concord, but annexed to Painesville Township in 1876. In 1900 it became a two-room schoolhouse. The school was replaced by the current Clyde C. Hadden school, 1800 Mentor Avenue, in 1928, slated to close in 2019.
Very little information has been found for the Perry School District. The 1915 Atlas is very difficult to read, but with the aid of the 1898 Atlas, locations of schools can be found.
Sub District No. 1: School located on North side of North Ridge Road, just west of Perry Park Road.
Subdistrict No. 2: School was located on the north side of North Ridge Road just west of Antioch Road, but the school is not obvious on the 1915 map. From the records, North Ridge School only ran to 1921.
Perry. Village Primary School has records only from 1921-1923. Teacher Dorothy Walding from North Ridge appears at Perry Village Primary from 1921-23.
Subdistrict No. 4: School was on the north side of South Ridge Road between Narrows Road (Main St.) and Maple Street. It is a tavern now, previously Mike and Jo’s, now Why Drive By, at 4291 South Ridge Road. Land description of current business is “L[44A School Lot.” This has a Lake County Historical Society Heritage designation.
Sub District No. 5: School was on the north side of South Ridge Road east of Lane Road.
Sub District No. 6: The school was on the North side of Middle Ridge Road less than a quarter mile east of Call Road.
Sub District No. 7: School was on the south side of River Road, just east of Webb Road.
Joint Sub District No. 9 with Painesville Township: The school was on the west side of Lane Road about half way between the Railroad tracks and Narrows Road.
Joint Sub District No. 10: Madison Township shared the school on the north side of Lockwood Road, east of Antioch Road.
Information is from http://www.cityofwickliffe.com/residents/history/
Wickliffe incorporated as a village and separated from Willoughby Township in 1916. Some students from this area prior to 1916 "attended Schram School, District 134 [sic] a small red building at the corner of Rockefeller Road and Route 6." The Wickliffe Elementary school, then a four-room edifice, was torn down in 1915 and a new school erected.
The new building was purchased from Willoughby Township after the incorporation of Wickliffe in 1916. A new school board was also formed. The first class to graduate from Wickliffe High School in 1924 had three students.
The current high school, apparently the same one that was built in 1916, is at 2255 Rockefeller Road, south of Ridge Road (Rt. 84).
Most of the history of these schools is from: Eleanor Rolf, Willoughby Township Schools the First One Hundred Years 1829-1929 (Willoughby, Ohio: Willoughby Eastlake Board of Education, 1978.
Apparently, at the meetings of the Board of Education of Willoughby Rural School Districts, a lot of decisions were made about closing of schools and building of new ones or consolidating students into other schools.
Willoughby District No. 1: At Lakeshore and Lost Nation Roads – The Plains School. By 1921 students from Districts 2 and 3 were being transported to District 1 school. The Plains School on the North side of Lakeshore Boulevard was closed about 1921 and a new school built in 1922, called Willobee school. [Our records show Willobee school in the 1921-23 school years.] In 1927 the name of Willobee school was changed to McKinley. (p. 1-9) McKinley School at 1200 Lost Nation Road was closed in 2012, was used for community outreach, and is scheduled for demolition. (OldOhioSchools.com)
District No. 2: Reeve Road School was built in 1903. In 1916, the school was closed and the students were sent to Plains School. Building was offered for sale in 1920, and sold in 1923.
District No. 3: Erie Road School at the Southwest corner of Erie Road and Lakeshore Boulevard. Also known as Shehan School, it closed in 1921 and students were transported to School District No. 1. The building was sold in 1923. It was there until at least 1936 but is now demolished.
District No. 4: at Lakeshore and Vine Street, Wellner School was built in 1898 as a one-room schoolhouse on Vine Street, directly opposite 330th Street where Wendy’s is now. It was closed in 1922, which later became the first town hall of Willowick and then a police station, a community church, and a family residence. It was condemned and stripped, and later burned in 1958 and was razed. The frame school was replaced in 1922 with Roosevelt School, a brick building at East 322 and Vine Street. It closed in 1958 and was recently demolished. (p. 4-6, 7, 15)
District No. 5 was included with District No. 8.
District No. 6: Shankland Road School was located on the West side of the North end of Shankland Road. It was closed in 1921 and sold to Mrs. Gertrude L. C. Tucker who lived next to it. Most pupils were transferred to the Village School (Browning), some to the City Hall, and some to Willoughby Junior High School. The building became home to farm tenants until it was purchased by the school board for Sunny Lane School, precursor of Broadmoor School. The American Red Cross occupied the building at 4788 Shankland Road until it burned in 1976 and was demolished. (p. 6-8, 23)
District No. 7: Harvey Hall School was built in 1901 and closed in 1921. It was next door to 32501 Euclid Avenue (now gone) at Campbell Road (p. 7-12). It is now the Little Red Schoolhouse which was moved to Shankland Road and used for a museum and education of visiting children of the district.
District No. 8: Wickliffe School, a two-room brick school house was built in 1878, and a left wing was added in 1896, making it four rooms at 29240 Euclid Avenue, now the site of the Middle School. This building was torn down in 1915, and a new one built. Wickliffe incorporated as a village in 1916 (p. 8-49), and a Wickliffe Village School District was formed. In August 1920, the deed for the school was delivered to the new Board of Education from the Willoughby Rural School Board.
District No. 9: Willoughby Center School, located on the North side of Willoughby Ridge Road, probably just west of Pine Ridge Country Club, closed April 27, 1921, children to attend the village school. (p. 9-15)
District No. 10: Maple Grove School, now a private residence has a Lake County Historical Society heritage marker at 36675 Eagle Road. It was a brick building built in 1898 (or 1889 per LCHS heritage designation). It was closed in 1927 and Districts 10, 11, and 13 were consolidated at the new Garfield School at Chagrin Falls-Willoughby and Euclid-Chardon Roads. (p. 10-20, 23) Garfield school was recently demolished.
District No. 11: Waite Hill School was on the east side of Smith Road, about where South Lane is now. The school was sold in 1927 to John Sherwin and, as of 1987, was a private residence. (p. 11-24). [From map study of the 1898 and 1915 atlases and comparing them to the current map, it looks more like this school was on the south side of West Center Road, now Eagle Mills Road just east of Hobart Road. This was in Kirtland Township, and was a joint Sub District.]
District No. 12: Pleasant Valley School was located on Chardon Road on the Kirtland border, and was a shared school with Kirtland. In 1922 it was decided by the board to close the school, but residents’ requests allowed it to reopen for the 1923 school year. It was demolished in 1929 for low enrollment. (pp. 12-10, 11)
District No. 13: Schram School was on the southeast corner of Chardon Road and Rockefeller Road, now in Willoughby Hills. May 17, 1922 the School Board passed a Resolution that all District 13 students up to grade 7 were to go to Maple Grove School. All 7th and 8th graders from Pleasant Valley and Maple Grove were transferred to Schram. (p. 13-21). The building is at 29660 Chardon Road, and is a private residence. Legal description is “T[3 L[2 A[SCHRAM SCHOOL”. The property card says it was built in 1929, but it is a much older style building than that.
Village Schools: Erie Street, Browning Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, Willoughby Union High School.
Willoughby Union High School was a joint venture of the Willoughby Village School Board and the Willoughby Township Board. It was being built in 1915 on the lot where Willoughby University was. The Township finally agreed to the terms and it opened in 1919. The old high school was sold, raising enough money to build Browning and Lincoln Schools. The old high school was demolished in 1915.
The school year ending 1922 the High School Committee housed 125 junior high students and rental fee was due the H.S. committee. (p. Village 36)
In April 1918 Mayor Carmichael suggested selling the Erie Street school site to make an approach for the new high-level bridge. This was accomplished in 1919, selling the Old Lower School strip of land to the County Commissioners. The Erie Street School property was sold to Standard Oil in May, 1920. It has been a gas station at the southeast corner of Erie Street and Mentor Avenue until it closed about 2018.
Browning Elementary was built in 1921 at 38032 Brown Avenue, now the Willoughby Senior Center. At least some of the classes came from Glen Rush school from the teacher reports.
There was a school on Second Street in Willoughby which was replaced in 1921 by Lincoln School, also on Second Street. Both have been demolished.
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