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).
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.
Which later merged with my high school, Henry M. Gunn (a school superintendent).
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.
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.
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.)
Could it have been aMontessori school? There are lots of them around but named indirectly after the originator of the method, Maria Montessori.
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.
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.
First through eighth grade, I attended Saint Anthony of Padua School in Baltimore.
My high school, Loyola, was named for Saint Ignatius Loyola.
The university I graduated from was named for Benjamin Franklin.
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.
Coincidentally enough, My answers match yours for K - 5. I attended Hicks and Gordon as well.
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.
