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Elmira City School District company history timeline

1836

In 1836, few students attended the Baldwin Street Academy, situated in the First Presbyterian Church on East Church Street Church.

1859

Started in 1859 under the Jurisdiction of a Board of Education, EFA had many locations and upgrades as the City grew.

1862

The first commencement in the “new academy” was held July 25, 1862.

1866

Professor Joel Dorman Steele was hired in 1866 to “govern the growing boys” at $1,600 per year.

1870

Resourceful students and Elmira businessmen raised the $2,000 necessary and built a gym in 1870.

1913

The 1913 EFA was equipped with a cafeteria and kitchen.

1947

The consolidation plan was an outcome of a master plan proposed in 1947 by a Joint Legislative Committee on State Education.

2011

In 2011, however, the Elmira City School District announced that due to severe budget problems, the 64-year-old rivalry between Southside and EFA would have to come to an end.

2016

LynAugust 8, 2016 at 7:52 AMHow wonderful it must have been to find out that you could send your children to school for free.

2020

The campus was changed to seventh and eighth grades beginning the fall of 2020, but remained as eighth and ninth grade in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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