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Education in Warren County and Bowling Green In 1855 Kentucky's Superintendent of Public Instruction reported to the General Assembly that, on an average, 31% of Warren County's white children attended school. Of the county's 61 common schools, only four offered more than a three-month session. In Bowling Green, a number of private schools opened after the Civil War. Separate public elementary schools were established for black and white children in the town in the 1880s. In 1886 Reverend Henry
Carpenter served as the principal and teacher at the Cox Spring
School, the first school for black children in Warren County.
The name was changed to Delafield Colored School but became known
as the "Carpenter School." In 1923, with aid from philanthropist
Julius Rosenwald, a modern school building replaced the original
one-room structure. EARLY WARREN COUNTY COLLEGES and NORMAL SCHOOLS By the mid-nineteenth
century, a number of academies, seminaries and "colleges"
were established in Warren County. These institutions functioned
as private high schools until the early 1900s when the public
high school system was established. The schools drew students
from outside the region. In some instances, entire families moved
to Bowling Green to send their children to school.
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