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J. H. Reynolds School for
Boys
In addition to common district
schools, as population increased, select schools
were formed with varying success.
The first of these was by J. H.
Reynolds, who announced in the Ohio Review on
September 27, 1834 that he will be opening a select
school. The tuition would be placed at "$2.00 -
$2.50, according to branches taught". Mr. Reynolds
was recommended by Henry Newberry, Elisha N. Sill,
Henry Wetmore, Richard Fry and Ogden Wetmore.
Sarah Carpenter's Seminary
for Girls
In the spring of 1836 Miss Sarah
Carpenter established a seminary for girls. This was
located in the school room attached to St. John's
Church and
was located at the northeast corner of Portage Trail
and Second Street.
This school was
known as the Lyceum and was also used as a town
meeting place. This school was later known as
Central School and was in use until 1869. Miss
Carpenter was succeeded in 1840 by Miss Frances C.
Barron and then Miss Eliza Deaver.
Cuyahoga Falls Institute
The Cuyahoga Falls Institute was
established in the fall of 1837 by Rev. Roswell
Brooks and Charles Clark. The school continued in
operation for 11 years. The building was was also
later called the Lyceum and was located where the
Pilgrim Church now stands.
Mr. Brooks
performed the principal duties as Mr. Clark taught
music and mathematics and Elethea S. Brooks
superintendent of the female department. In the
summer of 1840 Mr. Brooks alone conducted the
school, but after moving to New York in the fall of
that year, Mr. Clark resumed control until about
1848 when his ill health caused him to discontinue.
Union School/East High School
Land was donated for the Union
School (East School) in 1868 to replace all of the
one room schools in the city. The school was located
at the corner of Germaine Street and School Street.
The school opened in 1870.
In 1872 the Union School became a
high school and an elementary school. A third floor
was added in 1882. In 1909 it was renamed East High
School and was used just for the higher grades until
the present high school was built in 1922. An
auditorium and gymnasium were opened in 1919.The
building remained in use as a high school until
1922, when the first unit of the present high school
was completed and placed in operation. Union School
then became an elementary school and was known as
East School. It remained in use until it was
condemned in 1938. It later was used as a warehouse
until it was closed in 1966 and subsequently razed.
It is now the site of a high rise apartment.
 East
High School were located where the Portage Towers
are now.
Broad Street School
Broad Elementary School at 440 Broad Boulevard
between Fourth and Fifth Streets was built and
opened in 1908 (some reports say Sept. 1909).
Additions to Broad School were opened in 1913 and
1959. Broad was closed and leveled in 1968.
Grant & Lincoln Schools
Grant Elementary and Lincoln Elementary "twins' were
built from the same set of architect's plans and
opened in 1930. Grant is located at 1201 Grant
Street. It was was closed in 1983 and was leased to
the city to be used as a cultural center. Lincoln is
located at 3131 Bailey Road.
Silver Lake School
Silver Lake Elementary School was established in
1919, one year after the Village of Silver Lake was
incorporated. Classes were originally held in the
Lodge Homestead. The first unit of the present
school building located at 2970 Overlook was
constructed in 1927.
E. R. Sill School
Edward Rowland Sill School, located at 1910 Searl
Street, was opened as an elementary school in 1949
and later became a junior high school. Additions to
the school came in 1952, 1955 and 1969. The school
then became a middle school in 1983 housing grades
6, 7 and 8. Sill School was named in honor of Mr.
Sill, the famous teacher-poet who also served as
Superintendent of Schools and principal of Cuyahoga
Falls High School.
Richardson Elementary
School
With the rapid growth of Cuyahoga Falls in the
1950's and 1960's, came the construction of other
elementary and junior high
school buildings. William H. Richardson Elementary
School, 2226 Twenty-third Street, was opened in
1952. The school was named to honor Mr. Richardson
who, retired in 1932, completing forty-seven years
as teacher and superintendent (twenty-four of these
years as Superintendent of Cuyahoga Falls Schools)
Price Elementary School
Elizabeth Price Elementary School, 2610 Delmore, was
opened in 1954. The school was named in honor of
Elizabeth Price Sackman who served as teacher and,
later, principal of Crawford School and Lincoln
School. She also served two terms on the Board of
Education.
Newberry Elementary School
The Henry Newberry Elementary School, 2800
Thirteenth Street, was opened in 1956. It was named
in honor of the first mayor of the town who later
served as a member of the Board of Education.
Bode School
The F. H. Bode Elementary School, at 420 Washington
Street, was opened in 1962. The school was named in
memory of Cuyahoga Falls City Schools Superintendent
Fred H. Bode who served as superintendent for eleven
years. An addition was constructed in 1969. Bode
Elementary was closed in 1983 and subsequently
leased to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Goodyear
left in 1991. The building is now occupied by the
Summit County Board of Education.
Schnee School
Frederick Schnee Elementary School, 2222 Issaquah
Street, was opened in 1963. The school was named in
honor of Mr. Schnee who was superintendent of
schools for twenty years. In 1983, the building was
closed and leased to the Board of Mental
Retardation. That lease ended in 1991. The now
houses the YMCA.
Roberts School
Gilbert Roberts Junior High School, 3333 Charles
Street, was opened in 1969. The school was named to
honor Mr. Roberts who spent forty one years in
Cuyahoga Falls Schools as teacher, coach, high
school principal and superintendent. In 1983,
Roberts became a middle school housing grades 6, 7
and 8.
Dewitt School
The Gordon M. Dewitt Elementary School, 425 Falls
Avenue, was built on the site of Broad School and
opened in 1969. The school was named for Mr. Dewitt
who served the district for thirty years as a
teacher, high school principal, supervisor and
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