My first School.. picture... is your first school still standing ?

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This is a picture of the very first school I attended as an infant. my little brother went here too, before we moved to another city..

The wall on the right by the steps is burned into my memory because I fell off it, onto my face and broke my front teeth.. but the more amusing if it were amusing, was that to try and stop me from crying.. with blood, cracked teeth and a swelling face, my teacher was trying to feed me jelly beans while we were waiting for my mum to come and get me.:eek:

The school was called Rainbow and was in Scotland.. and I started there in April 1961..till December 62..yet it's amazing how much I remember of it..this picture was taken relatively recently just before it was demolished

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what are your memroies of your very first school.. and is it still in existence ?
 

My first school was Dunedin Elementary, Dunedin, Florida. Sadly I don't think much of the original building still exists. I do remember it well.

I drove by a couple of years ago and it appears the property is still some kind of school, but not much looked familiar, it was all too new.

My last 2 years of high school were at Weber High in Ogden, Utah. Today only a parking lot where the building stood.
 

Grades 1-5 spent at Tremont School. School closed in 1963 and I transferred to Byrd School for the 6th grade.
Tremont was originally the first high school in town before another was built. Today, Tremont stands empty and even the flagpole once out front is gone.

- First grade picture (1959)
- First grade class picture, Christmas 1959. I'm lower right at end of table. Sue Wiggins in front right of me in dotted dress was my first grade sweetheart. Don't know what we had in common except we both apparently liked white socks :ROFLMAO:
- Tremont School today, from google maps

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My elementary school is still standing . It was mother's high school. I attended grades one to six.
It's a very old brick building but has been kept up over the years. It's well over 100 years old.
My mother literally walked five miles one way to school in all weather unless they were lucky enough to catch a ride on a "barge " which was aa long bed truck.
I walked one mile, rain, sleet, snow.
 
Naturally said:
Grades 1-5 spent at Tremont School. School closed in 1963 and I transferred to Byrd School for the 6th grade.
Tremont was originally the first high school in town before another was built. Today, Tremont stands empty and even the flagpole once out front is gone.

- First grade picture (1959)
- First grade class picture, Christmas 1959. I'm lower right at end of table. Sue Wiggins in front right of me in dotted dress was my first grade sweetheart. Don't know what we had in common except we both apparently liked white socks :ROFLMAO:
- Tremont School today, from google maps

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Adorable pics and my school looks very much like yours!
 
We had a "campus" with all 12 grades in different buildings....an elementary school (1-8), a junior high (7-8) and the high school.

When I graduated from 6th grade, they built another grade school 1/2 a mile down the road and renamed it after the legendary (and terrifying) principal. The building became part of the high school.

The junior high building was semi-condemned after I graduated from 8th grade and was used for offices.

I was the last graduating class at the old high school, as a new high school complex was built a few miles away. The old buildings became a "university high school", where students graduate with an college associate degree.

So, I missed all the new schools.
 
My secondary school ..and even my second infant school are very much still standing and in full use to this day. All that said both of them were only built in the 60's.. so were very modern with a lot of glass etc..when I went to them in the 60's.. and they still look the same today ..
 
My first elementary school was closed 10 years ago, Google tells me. There have been plans to turn it into a multi-use resource facility hub for the neighborhood, but nothing has happened yet.

I went there for 2Ā½ years, kindergarten through 2nd grade, until we moved to another neighborhood in Chicago waaay across town.
 
My elementary school was the same one my father went to. It was eventually torn down while a new version was being built on the original playground, and where the old school was is now a playground. Although, I have not be back to see it. An old school pal just told me it and been replaced. @Pink Biz that school was in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn.
 
Property in my hometown has become so expensive that I doubt there are any of the schools I went to are still standing. They probably have one giant elementary school on the outskirts of the town......now city! My old high school still stands and in use as a high school, however it was not in my town but a couple of towns over.
 
It's gone. It was built in the 30s. I don't know when it was razed. I was a first-grader there in a class for 1st to 3rd graders...1st to 3rd all in one classroom because the school was for farm kids and there weren't many students.

This is the only picture I could find...online. Ben-Ali School.

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My sister just sent me my school picture!
It's really poor quality, but I'm second row down from the top, 5th kid from the right.
This is every student in the entire school.

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Murrmurr said:
It's gone. It was built in the 30s. I don't know when it was razed. I was a first-grader there in a class for 1st to 3rd graders...1st to 3rd all in one classroom because the school was for farm kids and there weren't many students.

This is the only picture I could find...online. Ben-Ali School.

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My sister just sent me my school picture!
It's really poor quality, but I'm second row down from the top, 5th kid from the right.
This is every student in the entire school.

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That's a pretty little school, Frank. More like a village church
 
The first school I attended from kindergarten through 6th grade, PS 39 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. It is still functioning grammar school and has Landmark Status.
If anyone has seen the Robin Williams movie Awakenings, this school is in the opening scene.

From Wikipedia: It was built in 1876-1877 and is a three-story symmetrical brick and stone building combining features of the Italianate and Second Empire styles. The main facade features a central bay or tower with a rusticated first floor. The building has steep slate covered mansard roofs.[2]


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