Ballston Spa CSD history

Gunnison was his successor in the fall of 1813, and announced in a village paper that an evening school would be opened in November in “The Academy.”

1836 – Two District School houses were built when The Academy was sold; one was located on the south side of High Street, between Ballston and Charlton Streets; the second a large two-story building on Milton Avenue at Hamilton.

1874 – The Bath Street School was built. It cost $23,400, and was opened with the fall term on September 14, 1874.

1882 – The South Street School was built to accommodate the increasing number of students. It opened in December 1882 and cost about $8,000 to build.

1900 – The High School was built on Malta Avenue.

Hope you all are enjoying this wintery January! Here is a shot of the Ballston Spa Winter Club Toboggan Slide, circa 1912.

But what did it look like in the past? Here is an exterior view of the Lincoln Hotel on the corner of Milton and Malta Avenues, taken on February 14, 1914, a century ago! A trolley car of the Hudson Valley Railway sits to the right.

1915 – Malta Avenue Grade School built on Malta Avenue and Pine Street.

Frederick J. Wheeler built a new grist mill and storehouse on Science Street after a fire destroyed his family’s mill on West High Street during the 1920’s.

Snow covers the ground and roof in the aftermath of a winter storm in February, 1925.

Vernon, Virginia, April 6, 1926 from the Saratoga County Historical Society collection.

1928 – New South Street School was built next to the old one, which was subsequently demolished.

1929 – The South Street School building is completed and ready for occupancy, with accommodations for six grades.

1957 – A new Junior Senior high school was built on Garrett Road.

1968 – Ground breaking ceremony for the new primary- middle school at the Milton Terrace site.

1998 – Current Ballston Spa High School opens.

Malta, in particular, has been experiencing a lot of new development following the opening of the Luther Forest Technology Campus in 2009.

In September 2012, the High School began to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, an internationally recognized program of study that exemplifies college and career readiness.

2013 – Gordon Creek Elementary School opens on the Wood Road/Milton Terrace site.

2014 – After a year of renovations Malta Avenue Elementary School reopens.

2015 - Milton Terrace North Elementary School is renamed to Milton Terrace Elementary School.