Boone Community School District history

After that, a series of one-room schoolhouses were built around the city, one of which was a public school on Price Pike built in 1828.

The original order for the formation of School District 1, Boone Country, was issued April 19, A.D. 1872 by Samuel P. Bollman, County Superintendent.

It cost less than $400 which included both site and building. It was built in 1873 at a cost of $1,300 and was the first frame school house in the county.

The first record of an original order being issued for the formation of a District 36 was one on February 14, 1880 addressed to H.V. Netzer given by Superintendent Wm.

The Albion Private School was started September, 1881 by Rev.

Smith informs the News that he now has 70 scholars in attendance with more to come." In 1883 a private school was started by Mr.

In June, 1884 a resolution was passed to built a two-story structure 40x70 in size and divided into 4 rooms.

Open house for "Albion's Pride" was held in February, 1885.

Those students learned on the second floor of a multi-grade school building located where the SunTrust Center stands downtown today (pictured left). And in 1886, Jones High School was established for Orange County’s black students.

In 1887, a new Board of School Directors was elected, and within the next year, a new school was built on Montgomery Street.

Superintendent E.A. Enright issued it on March 22, 1888 addressing it to James Stratton and Burt Cotterman.

Albion High School graduated its first class in 1890.

But it wasn’t the first Orlando High School, which first graduated 11 students in 1892.

By 1901, Almer Michael Yealey had inherited this two-room frame building that only had two teachers, one acre of land, a five month school term, and no grades.

That school remained the only public schoolhouse in Florence until 1908, when Kentucky’s school system drastically changed.

By 1911, A.M. Yealey’s school on Montgomery Street had been granted two more rooms, another teacher, and a four-year graded school plan.

The voters of School District 1 appropriated $55,000 in bonds for the east High School building in 1913.

Orlando High School started in a one-room log cabin, moved to the building at S. Orange Avenue and Jackson Street, then relocated in 1922 to the south wing of then Memorial Junior High School, west of Lake Eola, where the Four Points Sheraton Hotel is today.

In 1925, the county conducted its first ever basketball tournament, where the teams played on an outside court during the afternoon and Union won in both the boys and girls division.

With more than 1,200 students, the school had outgrown the blond-brick 1926 edifice on Robinson Street.

By 1931, Florence had granted diplomas to 80 students before consolidating with the Boone County School System in September to form a graded school.

By 1950, many of those county schools were becoming overcrowded and needed to expand.

The oldest of the four district high schools, Boone was created in 1954 when multiple city high schools consolidated into a single county high school.

A bond issue (which was paid off in 2 years) was voted for the purchases of the new steel gymnasium in 1968.

Conner High School opened its doors for the first time on October 15, 1970 with less than 600 students in grades 10 - 12.

Since those 136 students graduated in the first class of 1971, over 6000 student have gone through the graduation ceremonies.

But on January 18, 1983 the vote was reversed with 62.7% in favor of a $1.3 million bond issue to build a new high school in Albion, construction to begin in May.

Sunday, October 7, 1984 was the dedication and open house.

Those students learned on the second floor of a multi-grade school building located where the SunTrust Center stands downtown today (pictured left). And in 1886, Jones High School was established for Orange County’s black students. It was renovated and reopened as the Callahan Neighborhood Center in 1986.

In 2001, the school was modernized with a comprehensive renovation that expanded classrooms and added a new building.

8, 2002) was before a sellout, record-breaking crowd of over 22,384.

In 2020, Conner High School will graduate its’ fiftieth class.