Oil City High School - Oil Can Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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1967 - - South and North Combine Forces Twentieth century American educators recognized the value of separating secondary students of junior high school age from those of senior high school age. Becoming the first in Pennsylvania to practice this concept, the Oil City School District constructed the South Side J unior High School in 1916. Seventh through ninth grade students attended classes at this building until 1924 when Lincoln, a second junior high school building, opened. Thus, the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades were divided between the North and South sides of the Allegheny River fulfilling the statement of the Department of Public Instruction that this arrangement would result in “a more satisfactory organization.” Eventually, however, the North side students in the eighth and ninth grades moved to the senior high building. This situation existed until 1967 when the Lynch Boulevard senior high building opened, and the school on Spring Street housed all seventh through ninth grade pupils. The South Side Junior High was then abandoned and Lincoln continued as an elementary school. I. South Side Junior High School in 1930. 2. Lincoln Junior High School in 1930. 3. South Side Junior High School in 1967. the year it was closed. Page 9 The present Junior High School which was formerly the third of our senior high schools. 3 8

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