Schools I attended in order from elementary on- 1-6 after the town’s name, 7-12 called Highland with no real known reason for the name, and college named after some fruit jar magnates.
Schools I taught in: one after a Confederate General, one after a businessman, one after the street it’s on, and a Northeast Campus that’s both northwest of the main campus and on the northwest side of town. The counties were also named after the general and the businessman.
I find it curious how nearly every high school in Georgia is named after the county and nearly no high schools in Indiana are named after the county.
Ultimately, my elementary school was named after Tadeusz Kociuszko. It was named after the street it is in, Kosciuszko Street. The explorer Paul Strezlecki did an early survey of this area and named Australia’s highest peak “Mt. Kosciuszko” after the Polish national hero. Presumably the street name was inspired by Strezlecki’s connection to the early history of this region.
My secondary school was named after the town, which has a Aboriginal name meaning “river of little fish”.
Ehrm, excuse me, the larger circulatory system. Miguel Servet had described the pulmonary circulatory system and posited that the rest would be similar.
(Servet attended my high school)
Elementary schools: First for Dennis Chavez, basically the first Hispanic in the US Senate. Then for the road the school was on, named after the Comanche tribe.
Middle schools: First for Grover Cleveland, then for James Madison.
High school: For the Sandia mountains (most likely.)
Elementary school was named after the first postmaster of the area it was in.
Middle & High School named after the First British Governor General of the territories that would become Canada (although the schools were in the US, not Canada).
College was named after someone who invented a way to efficiently bury telegraph cables.
My elementary and middle schools were named after presidents. My high school’s official name is Peoria High School (named after the city it’s in), but everybody calls it Central.
My elementary school (Ritchie Park) was sort of named after a former governor. It was really named after a road that was itself named for the governor.
Robert Frost intermediate school was next.
Then came Thomas Sprigg Wootton high school. Named for a former member of the Maryland Constitutional Convention and the founder of Montgomery County.
My primary school was named after Countess Ann, wife of a past Marquess of Salisbury.
From the school website, in 1732, Anne, the 5th Countess of Salisbury, founded a charity school for the education of forty girls between the ages of nine and sixteen. It opened up to Boys in 1905.
My secondary school was simply named after the town it served.