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Atkinson Intermediate School (grades 5–6) During the renovations, first and second grade classes were held in a Presbyterian church, over the objections of a local Jewish group. The Archer Street School was renovated in 1965. 2) was converted in 1964 to an administration building. The Giblyn elementary school opened in 1962 the Cleveland Avenue School closed in 1963 (later to reopen as a vocational school ) and the old Seaman Avenue School (P.S. Dodd Middle School ) Dodd retired as superintendent that year. The old high school building was officially re-dedicated Apas John W. The current Freeport High School was built on marshy land on the west edge of Freeport along the border with Baldwin it was dedicated on November 6, 1960. The early 1960s saw considerable infrastructural change. The current Freeport High School, photographed in 2012, including 1969 addition at right. Also in 1959, the Long Island Park Commission handed over 9 acres (3.6 hectares) just north of the Cleveland Avenue School to be used as a high school athletic fields the Buffalo Avenue Field House there was added in 1952. The Atkinson School was added in 1949 and the Bayview Avenue School in 1953. In 1941, there were 1,779 students in seventh grade or higher. By 1937, Freeport's population exceeded 20,000, and it was the largest ' village' in Nassau County. In 1931, the Cleveland Avenue School opened and the Columbus Avenue School was enlarged.

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Y.' High school students are separated into grades based on the number of credits completed rather than by age and, 'No credit my be allowed for graduation for less than two full years of a foreign language.' Allowance is made to grant a high school diploma to a student 'regularly and faithfully pursued subject for full double time and has been present 90 percent of the time' but still has not been able to achieve a passing grade. A scholarship to Princeton University is to be awarded annually to 'candidates from the Schools of Nassau County, N. The directory also lists numerous annual prizes to honor civic, academic, and artistic achievements by students of various ages, as well as numerous competitive college scholarships, many of which are allocated by Assembly District rather than being specific to Freeport. 2, also known as Washington School ) Archer Street School(originally Lincoln School ) and Columbus Avenue School. Atkinson, an English teacher who, after her death in 1949, would have an elementary school named after her Grove Street School Seaman Avenue School (the old Public School No. The following schools are shown at that date: a high school with 41 teachers, including Caroline G. Thirteen individuals, the majority female, are identified as 'supervisors and special teachers,' supervising areas ranging from the arts to sewing to sheet metal work. There is an attendance officer, a medical inspector, a school nurse, and a building superintendent.

Adele Miller is listed both as clerk to the Board and secretary to Superintendent Dodd.

Ī 1928 directory of the school system shows a five-member Board of Education with three distinct committees, meeting twice a month. In 1962, an elementary school was named in his honor. Giblyn, a World War I veteran who served on the Board of Education from July 1, 1932, until his death on Decemfrom July 1, 1940, onward he was board president. Another longstanding figure in the school system was Leo F. Dodd's tenure as superintendent of Freeport schools he would serve in that office until 1961. It served several different purposes, the last being as a recreation center, before succumbing to a fire in 1966 Part of the fire-damaged building can be seen here.Ī new high school was constructed immediately east of the old one in 1922–1925. This school building, built 1894 and shown here as the district's high school in a 1909 drawing or etching, can be seen at the corner of Pine and Grove just right of center in this 1909 birds-eye view of Freeport.

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