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  1. The traditional eight-year common school began to disappear in favor of union graded schools and centralized schools that could also offer a high school curriculum.

  2. What follows is an alphabetic list of school buildings which at one time or another were part of the Oklahoma City Public School system. The list was compiled using various tools including newspaper articles, city directories, etc.

  3. Jan 15, 2010 · The Cherokee government established a public school system in 1841 and operated eighteen public schools by 1843. In 1844 the Chickasaw tribal government appropriated funds for a tribal academy, which was opened seven years later as the Chickasaw Manual Labor School for Boys.

  4. Public Instruction (State Capitol, Oklahoma City); Southern School News, August 1956. Although most of the desegregation occured in the northwest, the first town in the state to integrate its schools was Poteau in southeastern Oklahoma near the Arkansas border. School officials there decided to educate

  5. The earliest schools in the city were private schools, or subscription schools as they were known then. Early records indicate that Mrs. L. H. North convened classes under a cottonwood tree near what is now Park Avenue between Broadway and Robinson on June 1, 1889.

  6. Early Oklahoma. Before statehood, students usually attended one of the three types of schools: subscription, mission, or tribal. Each school used their own techniques to educate children. The most common type of school in the 1800s was called a subscription school.

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  8. History. Subscription schools were the first schools in Oklahoma Territory, but public schools began to emerge in the 1890s, shortly before 1907 statehood. By 1909, Oklahoma City had ten public school buildings. [3] By 1930 the city had three high schools, six junior high schools, and 51 elementary schools with an enrollment of 38,593.