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Northwest Local School District's mission is to create a responsive learning community where all students are valued, challenged and guided along a pathway to success. Our Vision. Teaching and learning in the Northwest Local Schools will: Provide learning experiences that empower students to contribute to a future not yet imagined
- Dangerfield Earley’s School
- Elm Street School 1872
- Fredrick Douglass School 1911
- Frederick Douglass Colony School 1927
- Frederick Douglass School 1980
- Frederick Douglass Elementary School 2008
- The Donald and Marian Spencer Center 2017
Before the Civil War many African Americans settled in Cincinnati. The city had a separate system of Colored Public Schools for their children. The suburb of Walnut Hills also had a private African...
The Rev. Earley held the school at his home on Willow Street (now Preston) one block east of the Spencer Center site. The Earley family played a vital role in African American schools in Walnut Hills for another century. This window in the Bethel Baptist Church, built in 1895, memorializes the first generation of the family.
Walnut Hills joined the city of Cincinnati in 1870. Cincinnati Public Schools built two segregated facilities. The Elm Street Colored School opened in 1872. The Spencer Center today sits on the sam...
In 1887 the State of Ohio repealed the “Black Laws” and said all students could go to the same public schools. Racial prejudice banned Black teachers in classrooms with white students. African American parents in Walnut Hills kept their separate school. They believe their children would get more attention from Black teachers. Most of the Elm Street faculty had more education than teachers in other public schools. The teachers acted as leaders in the Community. The Elm Street School accepted s...
By 1910 there were too many students to fit in the old Elm Street building. Cincinnati Public Schools built a handsome new Frederick Douglass School in 1911. The school served as a center for the A...
The 1911 building created new public space. A 350-seat auditorium hosted events in the evenings. Adults could use the Douglass Library after school. (This Public Library for African Americans allowed the nearby Walnut Hills branch to serve mostly white residents.) The school also offered basic social services. It included a lunch room with a kitchen. At the time, many apartments in the neighborhood shared inadequate bathrooms with other families. The school provided showers for boys and girls...
In the late 1920’s, there were too many African American students to fit in the main Frederick Douglass School building. Cincinnati Public Schools bought some houses north of Gilbert Avenue and mad...
Much of the school’s growth came from the large Model Homes development on the other side of Gilbert Avenue from the main Douglass School. The Colony School mostly served younger students. These children did not have to cross the busy street. As the students got older, they could make the longer walk to “Big Douglass.” The new apartments had their own bathrooms with hot water, and public space for residents so the Colony had few of the services at the main building. (Many students lived in ol...
In the late 1950’s through the 80’s, Cincinnati Public Schools tried to racially integrate its facilities. With many other public schools in Walnut Hills, the 1911 building seemed too big. The dist...
The city hoped there would no longer be a need for segregated services. Cincinnati Public Schools tore down the 1911 building. (The demolition was difficult.) The new building had no large auditorium or branch library; improved housing conditions meant the school no longer provided bathing facilities. For more than 25 years the 1980 building served Walnut Hills as a neighborhood school.
In 2008 Cincinnati Public Schools built the fifth Frederick Douglass School.
The facility is a better fit for younger students than the 1980 structure. With classrooms clustered around open spaces, it allows more modern teaching methods. The “Panther Pride” at the school continues the tradition of educational excellence for students in the largely African American community around the school.
The 1980 Frederick Douglass building served Cincinnati Public Schools for several years by housing an Alternative to Suspension (A2S) Program.
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Cincinnati Public Schools is Greater Cincinnati's largest school district and Ohio's third largest, serving about 36,000 students (preschool to 12th grade) in 66 schools spread across a 91-square-mile district in southwest Ohio.
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