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History of Minneapolis Schools

  • 1834 Rev. J.D. Stevens opens the first school in Minneapolis on the shores of Lake Harriet with four pupils.
  • 1849 The first private school opens in St. Anthony (which merged with Minneapolis in 1872).
  • 1851–1852 Mary Schofield opens a school on the west side of the Mississippi River.
  • 1857 Minneapolis' first high school, Central Union (also known as Union Washington), opens.
  • 1863 Central Union High School burns to the ground.
  • 1867 East Side (East) High School opens.
  • 1873 Central High opens.
  • 1878 The State Legislature merges St. Anthony and Minneapolis School Boards into Minneapolis Board of Education.
  • 1889 Kenwood Elementary School opens
  • 1891 North Side High School opens.
  • 1892 South Side High School opens.
  • 1898 Sidney Pratt Elementary School opens.
  • 1908 University High opens on campus of University of Minnesota as a preparatory lab for the School of Education
  • 1909 West Side High School opens.
  • 1916 Miller Vocational High opens.
  • 1922 Thomas Alva Edison High School opens
  • 1922 Theodore Roosevelt High School opens.
  • 1924 East Side High closed.
  • 1924 Marshall High opens.
  • 1925 Washburn High School opens.
  • 1940 Patrick Henry Junior High becomes Patrick Henry High School.
  • 1940 Southwest High School opens.
  • 1940 Minneapolis Board of Education drops the word "Side" from the title of the all Minneapolis High Schools.
  • 1967 Marshall & University High Schools merge.
  • 1976 Miller Vocational High closed.
  • 1982 Central High closed.
  • 1982 Marshall-University High closed.
  • 1982 Sidney Pratt Elementary School closed.
  • 1982 West High School closed.
  • 2000 Sidney Pratt Elementary School reopens.

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