Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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. the spectator ' «fci - - - - fra ST Cochran Junior High School Present enrollment, 1374 Joseph Johns Junior High School Present enrollment. 1155 Garfield Junior High School Present enrollment. 1143 [26]

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 Pi, THE SPECTATOR? As the years went by, and the enrollment increased, the need for high school work began to be felt. In 1868, Johnstown’s first high school was organized by S. B. McCormick. The building in which the first high school was located is now standing, and is used as the present Baltimore and Ohio railroad station. This high school boasted of one class with a roll of thirty students, who were taught by A. C. Johnson. Later, in 1880, the high school was moved to the Adams Street building, and the next year to Union Street. In 1882, the first commencement ex- ercises of the high school were presented. Here in the Union Street building the three year course was established; however two years later in 1884, it gave place to the four year course of study. In 1892, the high school was moved to the Somerset Street building where is remained until 1900. The star had been steadily growing larger and brighter and suddenly rose more quickly, because in 1900 a new building was erected on the old plot of ground donated by Joseph Johns. This schoolhouse was built at the expenditure of $100,- 000 and was considered the finest improvement in the educational development of Johnstown. In this building the high school was located until 1926, when it was The First High School Now the Baltimore and Ohio Station One room of this building was used as a high school transferred to the building on Somerset Street, a new building, erected and equipped at the cost of $1,328,805. A part of the high school development of the city is the junior high school. The first junior high school in Johnstown and the second one in the state of Pennsylvania, was the Garfield Junior High, which was opened September, 1915. [25]

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THE. SPECTATOR The Central High School Present enrollment. 1025 The first building accommodated six hundred pupils; later the number of pupils grew so large that in 1927, the new Garfield Building was completed at the cost of $900,000; and the old building was converted into the Chandler School for grade work. The second junior high in Johnstown was the Cochran Junior High School, which was opened November, 1924, to take care of the students in the upper Johnstown district. The third junior high school is housed in the old high school building and is named after Johnstown’s founder. Simultaneously with the development of the high school and the junior high schools is that of the grade schools. They have gradually increased in size and number until today we have twenty-seven grade school buildings housing a total number of ten thousand, six hundred and thirteen pupils. Nor should we forget another branch of our puplic school system, which is the school for crippled children established in the Orthopedic Ward of the Me- morial Hospital. Here because we can not hasten the cycle of time, and the end of our romance lies in the future, our tale must be broken. No one knows what the future holds in store for the star of public enlightenment in Johnstown, but this we do know: Whatever our city does for the betterment and advancement of our public school system will be for the cultural betterment and advancement of Johnstown itself. [27]