# Schools named after recent Presidents

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**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-named-after-recent-presidents/786427 "2017-05-12T05:07:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-named-after-recent-presidents/786427/1 "2017-05-12T05:07:32Z")

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Many schools in the U.S. are named after Presidents. However, I’ve never noticed any schools named after Presidents later than Kennedy. Do you know of any schools named after the Presidents since 1963 in your area? Why, and was there any resistance in your area?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-named-after-recent-presidents/786427/2 "2017-05-12T05:35:20Z")

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> [@installLSC](#):
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> Many schools in the U.S. are named after Presidents. However, I’ve never noticed any schools named after Presidents later than Kennedy. Do you know of any schools named after the Presidents since 1963 in your area? Why, and was there any resistance in your area?

According to Wikipedia, there are fourteen schools named after Obama and he’s only been out of office four months.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-named-after-recent-presidents/786427/3 "2017-05-13T00:15:49Z")

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Barack Obama Elementary School in St. Louis County opened in 2011.

Wikipedia also lists more than a dozen schools named after Ronald Reagan, and a quick Google search shows several schools named after Lyndon Johnson.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-named-after-recent-presidents/786427/4 "2017-05-13T00:56:25Z")

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[slight hijack] I always thought it was funny that the school the Brady kids went to was called “Fillmore.” Millard Fillmore is once of the most obscure presidents. And wasn’t the school on _Welcome Back, Kotter_ named for James Buchanan? one of the worst presidents. [/OK, I’m done]

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**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schools-named-after-recent-presidents/786427/5 "2017-05-13T01:42:04Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> [slight hijack] I always thought it was funny that the school the Brady kids went to was called “Fillmore.” Millard Fillmore is once of the most obscure presidents. And wasn’t the school on _Welcome Back, Kotter_ named for James Buchanan? one of the worst presidents. [/OK, I’m done]

Well being named after obscure Presidents has its advantages. I went to James Garfield Elementary, whose sole claim to fame is being assassinated. It did give us a great excuse to slap Garfield the Cat all over our school in the 80s.