Cincinnati Public Schools history

The district then enrolled 1,900 students and had spent $7,778 on its schools in 1832.

The first printed report on the district appeared in 1833, according to Shotwell.

A German Department was added in 1840 to help educate the city’s growing German-immigrant population.

By 1846, enrollment had grown to 7,000 students, and the district employed 76 teachers and was overseen by a 20-member Board of Education.

The city of Cincinnati, following Ohio law, set aside the education taxes on African American held properties for “Colored Public Schools” beginning in the 1850’s.

In 1852, the state granted them the right to create and operate the Independent Colored School System.

The Colored School Board as early as 1858 implored Black parents to send their children to school with a refrain that rings hauntingly true today: “The duty of the colored American mother, is, to educate her children.

In 1862 the principals of the two Cincinnati Colored Common Schools both lived in Walnut Hills.

Walnut Hills north of McMillan did not join Cincinnati until 1870.

In 1872 the Elm Street Colored School opened; it would later take the name Frederick Douglass School.

In 1914, an African-American teacher in Cincinnati Public Schools, Jennie D. Porter, persuaded the Cincinnati Board of Education to allow her to organize a segregated school with black teachers and a black student body in the West End.

Back then, about a third of CPS' buildings were constructed before 1940 — six were a century or more old — and Cincinnati Public Schools’ older buildings were impressive examples of school architecture featuring such styles as Collegiate Tudor, Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival and Jacobethan.

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Dater Montessori has instilled a love of learning in thousands of students since its inception in 1986.

During the summer of 2001, Carson Montessori moved into a newly renovated Dater facility on Boudinot Avenue.

Approved in May 2002, the FMP replaced the district's inadequate, deteriorating learning spaces with modern, efficient and technology-ready, first-class school buildings.

In 2015, CPS launched the AP Boot Camp to support students who will take AP tests and to introduce them to life on a college campus.

In 2018, CPS adopted new English/Language Arts curriculum for all grades.