Warren County's High Schools In 1908 the county board of education and the trustees of the Bowling Green schools opened a high school to educate both the city and the county's public school students. A new school law mandated that one or more first class high schools be established by the county board of education in each county. The law allowed the county board to work with other school systems to satisfy this directive. The first high school opened at the Center Street School in Bowling Green with 18 county students enrolled. African American attended the State Street school. By 1911 four teachers instructed 116 high school students. Forty-five were county children. Two African American from the county were enrolled at State Street which had a total of 27 pupils. In Kentucky state law allowed three classes of high schools. First class high schools provided a four-year course of instruction, second class a three-year course and the third class school a two-year. In 1913 the county opened a new high school at Smiths Grove. By the 1932-33 school year, Warren County maintained 9 first class high schools, 3 second class and 2 third class schools. These schools typically housed grades 1-12. |
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Alvaton (1936)
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Boyce (1918)
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Bowling Green
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Bristow (1929)
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Greenwood (1990)
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Hadley (1927)
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High
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Oakland (1926)
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Richardsville (1927)
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Richardsville (1948)
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Rich Pond (1915)
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Rich Pond (1925) do you have an image of the Rich Pond High School? |
Riverside (1925)
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Rockfield (1919)
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Sandhill (1928)
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South Warren (1942)
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Smiths Grove (1913)
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Smiths Grove (1924)
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North
Warren
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State
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Warren County (1950)
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Warren Central (1968)
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Warren
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Woodburn
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