It was James G. Blaine school on the north side of Chicago, not far from Wrigley Field. Blaine was the Republican presidential candidate in 1884, losing to Grover Cleveland. The old brick bldg is still there and still operating as a public school. When I was at Blaine, the original, cast-iron and wooden desks with ink wells (which we used) were still there.
Marymount Girls School in Brentwood, CA
[in fact Nichol Brown Simpson and her kids used to come to the same church]
A school with 4 rooms, no kindergarten and first and second grades were combined.
I went to a little school in suburban Los Angeles that was 60-70% Jewish. My mom tried to tell me that Jews were a tiny minority in the world, but I shook my head. “No way, Mom. I know that is not true. I go to school.”
Grades 1-8 Catholic school in Chicago with nuns in habits. I learned a lot even Latin.
Oak Drive Elementary in Plainview, NY 1967-70. Best time to have grown up. Can’t imagine what it is like now.
Same here. Catholic school for grade 1 through 8. I was taught by Franciscan sisters who were wonderful, dedicated women.
I was fortunate to be a student in a high school also taught by Franciscans.(Sadly, that order is now a disgrace to the Church.)
Some elementary school in Newton KS, then 6th grade at Roy R Marriott in Palmdale CA about 1960, it has since been demolished.
Blessed Sacrament, Newark, N.J. grade 1-8. 1945-1953. Nuns, Sisters Of St. Joseph. Best education I could have had. Very tough but very fair.
Public school in Denver CO.
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Our Lady of Fatima School
Secane, PA
Immaculate Heart of Mary Nuns
1957 - 1965
Local parish school in Philly. Classes “taught” by nuns (Sisters of St Joseph) who had no training in education. Class sizes of 50+ with one nun and no assistant. “Textbooks” that were 15-20 years out of date. Discipline was far more important than content. Survived.
Yale.
Vera Elementary School was a 3-classroom school. My family moved from Baltimore (Essex), Maryland to Appomattox, Virginia in the middle of 3rd grade. My 7th grade class was 7.
Public school, fairly rural and small.
K-1 Thomas Edison, 2-5 Thomas Jefferson 6-8 Douglas Newcomb 9 Cecil B DeMille 10-12 Robert Millikan
You have got to have had fun with this post. I read through all the comments and it seems about every third one is a Catholic school.
For me it was Memorial Grade School. I remember beating Tommy Lawson to the door one time when the bell rang to return to class. I remember making a kite so well it did not need a tail. My grandpa helped me make a great telegraph key which I still have. He also helped me make a carbon arc furnace. At school we evidently did not take the same precautions as in his basement, because when the teacher lit it off it blew out every circuit in the building. At recess the girls and boys had different halves of the gym floor. I also remember playing dodge ball.
All this happened in the 50’s.
French Elementary as a boy
Hardy jr high
Then forced busing turned public schools into mostly black
I did a year of that and after witnessing assaults on teachers and 16 year old 9th graders gang banging a 7th grade 12 year old girl in the mezzanine bathrooms and various knife fights and near student versus student knife fights my folks pulled me out and moved to north Jackson and put me in Jackson Prep 1971 in 9th grade and that was it pretty much
Prep is a Mississippi institution like French Camp or St Als in Vicksburg or all the various Delta academies
It’s just life there
Both my elementary and junior high both ghetto now
Harman Elementary, Oakwood, OH - late 1980s-early 1990s.
Felt like a private academy due to academic quality, well-engaged parents, and not many worries about walking home. That, and no shortage of “old money”.