In order, I’ve got abolitionist senator Charles Sumner, founder of the playground movement Joseph Lee, and author Washington Irving. My high school was named after the city it was in and a language (Boston Latin School).
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.
The first school I went to, K-2, was “Clara Barton.” I have no idea why it was named after her; she never lived near here.
Pre-K and that one I only suffered for three months, no idea.
K1 to 8th, St Jeanne de Lestonac. 9th to 12th, St Francis Xavier. From the Company of Mary, I moved across the square to the Company of Jesus.
From kindergarten through second grade I went to La Crescenta Elementary School, on La Crescenta Ave, in La Crescenta, CA. My second elementary and middle schools were also named after the roads they were on, but not the city.
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.
Primary and secondary schools were named after the villages they were in.
Sixth form was named after the road it’s on.
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.
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.
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.
A general, a football coach and an ordinal direction.
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.
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.
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
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.
St. Francis Xavier.
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.
Mark Twain elementary
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.
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