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#51
11-06-2010, 08:10 PM
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K-3, I went to a school called Hicks Montessori, and don't know who it was named after (and it looks like it's closed now, so it'll be harder to find out now).
4-5, I went to a school called Gordon, named after the farmer who had owned the land a century or so previously (there are various other things named after him in the vicinity, too). 6th grade, I went to the imaginatively-named "Cleveland School of Science". 7th-8th, I was at a school named after Civil Rights activist Whitney Young. 9th grade was a Catholic school, named after St. Edward the Confessor 10th-12th was also Catholic, St. Benedict Undergrad was Thomas of Villanova And grad school is just named after the state. 
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#53
11-07-2010, 10:48 AM
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My elementary school was named after Woodrow Wilson. Now that I've learned what a total asshole he was, I'm almost ashamed to admit I went there.
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#54
11-07-2010, 11:04 AM
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My first elementary was named after the street it was on.
My second elementary school was named after the street it was on. My third elementary school was named after a local philanthropist who died in 2001 (huh, I thought he was dead when I was there. Shows what I know). My first middle school was named after the street it was on. My second middle school was named after the side of the city it was on (East). My third middle school was named after the street it was on and the street it was next to. My high school was named after the street it was on. My current college is named after the original name of the city, from when it was Nipmuc land. Worcester is apparently not very creative with school naming.
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#55
11-07-2010, 11:08 AM
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(Come on, you've got a college there that everyone calls "Whoopie!" That's a great name!)
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#56
11-07-2010, 11:19 AM
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LOL I have never heard anyone call it that, even though I used to work with a bunch of interns from there and my best friend's husband graduated from there. Of course, they'd have to come up with a creative nickname because Worcester Polytechnic Institute is just as boring as naming the school after the street. When I tell people my college's name, their eyes glaze over. Apparently Quinsigamond Community College is too much for them to process. Quinsig is better.
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#58
11-07-2010, 12:26 PM
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I went to (Harriet) Tubman Middle School and (Theodore) Roosevelt High School. Sitton Elementary was named for Lefie Sitton, who was school board member when the school was built.
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#59
11-07-2010, 12:36 PM
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My elementary school, which went to grade 6, was simply named for the community, but my middle school, called "junior high" in those days, was named for Ralph Waldo Emerson.
My high school was established in 1924 and named for President Warren G. Harding, the Nixon of his era. A few years later, they must have reconsidered because the school was renamed University High School. The girls at Uni were required to wear uniforms until 1930. Today all the kids at my elementary and middle schools now have to wear uniforms.
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#60
11-07-2010, 07:44 PM
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My grade school was named after Metacomet.
People have mentioned schools named after the roads they're on. My kids' first elementary school was the [Village] Road School because it was on [Village] Road, where [Village] was also the name of the village we lived in. So, most people called it the Road School, parsing the first part as referring to the village, not the road.
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#62
11-07-2010, 09:52 PM
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Elementary school #1: Lorne Haselton, a Saskatoon school dentist and school board member.
Elementary school #2: Greystone Heights, named after the neighbourhood (which is named after the stone buildings of the University of Saskatchewan, I think). High school: Evan Hardy, a professor of agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan who moved to Ceylon to work in agricultural development.
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#65
11-08-2010, 03:27 AM
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#66
11-08-2010, 06:48 AM
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Elementary and lower middle school were named for the town. The prep school I went to was named for the original name of the city. I went to Washington University for my bachelor's and master's and currently teach there. It's named after some president or something.
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#67
11-08-2010, 07:39 AM
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Primary and secondary schools were named after the villages they were in.
Sixth form was named after the road it's on.
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#68
11-08-2010, 08:26 AM
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My elementary school was named after a governor of Maryland. My intermediate school was named for Robert Frost and my high school was named after a member of the Maryland Constitutional Convention.
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#69
11-08-2010, 09:02 AM
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My K-8 school was named for the matriarch of the family which endowed it. My first high school was named for the most famous of Christian saints. My second high school was named for the church which ran it. The college from which I will earn my degree is named for the geographic region of the nation in which it is located.
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#70
11-08-2010, 09:36 AM
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My elementary school (K-6) was named after a dead president.
My junior high school (7-9) was named after a local educator, who was a teacher and principal for 41 years. It now is called a middle school and serves grades 6-8, while the elementary school is grades K-5. My high school is named for the city.
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#71
11-09-2010, 07:20 PM
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#72
11-09-2010, 07:38 PM
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My Elementary school was named after an Indian tribe that my fore-bearers displaced.
My Intermediate school (I guess the Kool Katz would say middle school these days) was named after a Fort that probably helped displace the Indians previously mentioned. My first high school was named because it was the northern school in town. My graduating high school (in another town) was so named because it was the name of the town. It keeps its current name despite the town having changed names due to negative connotations with Detroit.
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#73
11-09-2010, 07:48 PM
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First elementary school was named after Warwick Neck, the geographical formation (a peninsula) upon which we lived: Warwick Neck Elementary School.
Then we moved a few miles away, far enough for me to go to a different school: Warren A. Sherman Elementary. I had no idea who Warren A. Sherman was back then, nor did I care, but Google now tells me: "It was named after Warren A. Sherman, who was the Superintendent of Warwick Schools from 1930-1949.". Yawn. Seventh grade I went to Samuel Gorton Junior High. Again I had no idea and didn't care who Samuel Gorton was, but Wikipedia now tells me that "Samuel Gorton (1592–1677), English sectary and founder of the American sect of Gortonites, was born on 12 February 1592 at Gorton, Manchester, in Lancashire. He was first apprenticed to a clothier in London, but, fearing persecution for his religious convictions, he sailed for Boston, Massachusetts, in 1636. Constantly involved in religious disputes, he fled in turn to Plymouth, and (in 1637-1638) to Aquidneck Island (now Newport, Rhode Island), where he was publicly whipped for insulting the magistrates." Eh. Weird. It then goes on to say "In 1642 he bought land, known as "Shawomet Purchase", from the Narragansett people at Shawomet—now Warwick--where he was joined by a number of his followers". Ah, makes sense. I grew up in Warwick, RI. After much... "trouble" in public schools, I started in private school. In 8th grade til partway through 9th, I attended Rocky Hill School. Who knows why they called it that, I guess they thought it sounded cool. More trouble at RHS, and for the rest of my grade school years, I went to St Dunstan's Preparatory School. It was named after St. Dunstan, the patron saint of blacksmiths, goldsmiths, locksmiths, etc.
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#74
11-09-2010, 08:05 PM
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Elementary school (K-2): The maple tree
Elementary school (3-6): Asher Coe, an early settler of the town Junior high and high school: Named after the town, which was named for Aaron Olmstead, the purchaser of the land from which the city was carved College: Indirectly honors Queen Elizabeth I and theologian John Wesley
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#75
11-09-2010, 08:37 PM
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My elementary and middle school were presidents.
My high school was named after the teacher who founded it. She always seemed somewhat embarrassed to have her name splattered all over the place.
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#77
11-09-2010, 09:15 PM
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Jefferson Davis, the one and only president of the Confederate States of America. Later it was renamed for Barbara Jordan, the first black woman elected to the House of Representatives from a southern state. Whether it was a pang of conscience by the Dallas Independent School District or merely a concession to the changing demographics of my old neighborhood, I have no idea.
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#78
11-09-2010, 09:53 PM
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Mark Twain elementary
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#79
11-10-2010, 10:24 AM
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I went to school in Germany. My Elementary School was named after Johannes Gutenberg, and my High School after Johannes Rivius (German Wiki link), who whas a humanist educator and theologian, born in 1500 in the small town where the school is located.
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#80
11-10-2010, 12:12 PM
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Grade school (US): The priest who founded it
Grade school (UK): The Yorkshire dale it was in High school: Archbishop Martin John Spalding Undergrad (near Chronos's undergrad): Saint Francesca Saveria Cabrini, the first American to be canonized Grad: George Mason
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#81
11-10-2010, 01:03 PM
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My elementary school was named for two places it wished it was; Hollywood and The Riviera. Apparently whomever developed the area found its hills and ocean views reminiscent of the Mediterranean and even though it's thirty-five miles south of Hollywood he thought he'd appropriate that name as well.
I can only assume my middle school was named after Sir Isaac Newton. Not sure if we had an especially high amount of gravity or what. High school was named for the section of the city it served (good ol' Wrong Side of the Tracks High).
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#84
11-10-2010, 02:27 PM
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High School: Clayton, the city
Middle School: Wydown, the street Grade School: Ralph M. Captain. I have no idea who he was, nor does the internet. All of the other grade schools in town were named after their streets.
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#85
11-10-2010, 02:41 PM
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My elementary school was named after educator Lucille Nixon. This was annoying, because people kept assuming it was named after Richard Nixon, but fun, because we always called it Lucy Nixon and used Lucy Van Pelt as our symbol. My junior high school was named after Lewis M. Terman, inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. Last edited by SpoilerVirgin; 11-10-2010 at 02:42 PM.
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#86
11-10-2010, 02:47 PM
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K-6: Joyce Kilmer, the most insipid poet to ever rise to fame.
7th: A former principal of that school, I think. 8th: I haven't a goddamn clue, but given that I can't think of a famous person with that name, probably an old principal or district superintendent or similar. 9-12th: <Town Name> West. Creativity was not a factor in naming the high schools.
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#87
11-10-2010, 07:34 PM
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I graduated from Sunset High School; it is located on the West side of Dallas. At the time it was built, it was located on THE west side of Dallas. I never even thought about the origin of the name although I suppose it is possible there was a Mr. / Mrs. / Ms Sunset of some note.
My college was Texas Technological College; it was just named what it was. (It is now a University and all-----with the somewhat strange name of Texas Tech University.)
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#88
11-10-2010, 08:59 PM
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My elementary school was named after the street it was on, Orangewood. That in turn might have been someone's name but I'd bet it was some developer's nomenclature. My first high school was Washington. I assume George. My second high school was La Habra. After the town it was in.
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#89
11-10-2010, 10:37 PM
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My high school, in Great Falls, MT, was named after a famous western artist who lived in the town, Charles M Russell. We were the "Rustlers" and our logo was the bison skull that he used as a signature on his work.
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#92
11-11-2010, 10:18 AM
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It's a cool story, bro... my Jr High and High Schools were named after a Wampanoag Indian chief who burned our town to the ground in the King Philip's Wars of the 1670s. His name was Metacomet, but our school used his English name, King Philip.
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#93
11-11-2010, 10:25 AM
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I went to George C. Tilyou Junior High in Brooklyn.
He popularized Coney Island for the middle class.
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#96
11-13-2010, 03:52 PM
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#97
06-20-2012, 10:10 AM
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7th - 8th Grade I attended Patrick Henry Intermediate named after the first governor of Virginia who popularized the phrase "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death". 9th, 11th & 12th Grade I attended John Hay High School named after John Hay, Civil War Veteran and the Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt. He is interred at Lake View Cemetery less than 2 miles away. His in-laws, the Stone family, were major benefactors of Western Reserve College (now part of Case Western Reserve University) which is right across the street from the high school. 10th Grade I attended the Garrett A. Morgan Cleveland School of Science (same School of Science -- that year was the first year with a name). Garrett A. Morgan was an inventor that lived most of his adult life in Cleveland. He invented the traffic light and the gas mask. Last edited by darnold714; 06-20-2012 at 10:10 AM.
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#98
06-20-2012, 11:22 AM
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Elementary school: Jesus. (At least indirectly, as it was Southside Christian.)
University: IUPUI, the "P" stands for Purdue, which was named after John Purdue.
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#100
06-20-2012, 01:23 PM
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