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- In the spring of 1864, J.M. Hawks opened the first free public school in the state, located in Jacksonville. [ 6 ]
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In the spring of 1864, J.M. Hawks opened the first free public school in the state, located in Jacksonville. [6] The school was later branded as the Stanton Normal Institute in 1868, with a student body of 400.
- Stanton College Preparatory School – 1868
- Darnell-Cookman School of The Medical Arts – 1872
- Douglas Anderson School of The Arts – 1922
- Andrew Jackson High School – 1927
- Robert E. Lee High School – 1928
- Baldwin Middle-Senior High School – 1929
- Duncan U. Fletcher High School – 1937
Old Stanton High School in LaVilla. Photo by Kyriaki Karalis “New Stanton” in Durkeeville. Jacksonville’s oldest school was founded during the Reconstruction era as Florida’s first ever school for African-Americans. It is named for Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. It is the first of Jacksonvill...
Darnell-Cookman has a complex history. The original institution was founded Downtown to serve African-American students by Methodist Episcopal minister S.B. Darnell. It was originally named the Cookman Institute after Darnell’s friend and fellow minister, Alfred Cookman. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1901 and moved to its current Springfiel...
The school was founded as South Jacksonville School #107 in what was then the city of South Jacksonville (present-day San Marco and St. Nicholas). Douglas Anderson and W.R. Thorpe, leaders in the local black community, led the campaign to establish a school for African-American students in grades 1-9. When it opened, it was the only black public sc...
Jackson was one of three new high schools established in the late 1920s to replace Duval County’s increasingly overcrowded white high school, Duval High School. Located in Brentwood and serving white students from the Northside, it was soon followed by Robert E. Lee High School in Riverside and Julia M. Landon High School (now Landon Middle School)...
Lee High School opened in 1928 as one of three new white high schools, along with Andrew Jackson and Julia Landon, to serve Duval County’s growing population in the 1920s. It is located in Riverside and served white students from Jacksonville’s Westside. It was named after Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general in the Civil War. It was Jack...
Founded in 1929 and rebuilt in 1949, Baldwin provides middle and high school education for the town of the same name, one of the four municipalities in Duval County outside the Jacksonville city limits. Previously known as Thigpen, the town was renamed Baldwin in 1860 after Abel Seymour Baldwin, a former member of the Florida Legislature and presid...
The first public high school in the Jacksonville Beaches, Fletcher is named for Jacksonville politician Senator Duncan U. Fletcher. Fletcher had two stints as Mayor of Jacksonville, from 1893–1895 and 1901–1903; during the latter term he led the rebuilding of Downtown Jacksonville after the Great Fire of 1901. He was also a member of the Florida Ho...
Jul 25, 2023 · Its educational history dates back to the mid-19th century and is highly influenced by religious affiliations. This post seeks to explore the eight oldest schools in Jacksonville. Discover the schools’ unique history, transitions over time, notable alumni, and other interesting facts.
Jacksonville School District No. 1 in 1867. Thus the name: Bigham’s Knoll. “John Bigham – Early Jacksonville settler who gave land on which the first public school was built. One of his daughters, Elizabeth A., married Henry Klippel.” (accession records 68-140-2. SOHS has picture albums, Ambrose
Public schools in Jacksonville are controlled by the Duval County School Board (DCSB), which had a 2009-10 enrollment of over 155,000 students, making it the 15th largest school district in the United States, [1] and 5th largest school district in Florida.
The first public school district in Jackson County, School District No. 1, had been organized in Jacksonville on August 11, 1854. In 1855, $600 in taxes were raised “to be expended in building a school in said district” to be located “near the main traveled road leading from. First Schoolhouse Sign.
Jan 14, 2017 · Known today as Public School No. 8, it first opened its doors in 1909 originally as Graded Springfield School. Though it’s uncertain who designed the building, it was likely designed by Richard Lewis Brown, Jacksonville’s first black architect, due to his extensive work with the Duval County School Board. It’s not possible to talk about ...
