Fairview Board Of Education history

In 1809 Swan's 16-year-old son, John Joseph, taught school in the village of Girard (now West Girard), then Millcreek and Erie.

In 1810 the first log school was built in the small but growing settlement along the Ridge Road (United States Route 20) where it crossed Trout Run.

Once called Sturgeonville, it was incorporated as Fairview Borough in 1868 with a population of about 400.

The building burned in 1891 and was rebuilt the same year.

The building burned in 1891 and was rebuilt the same year. It was in that building in 1895 that the first upper level grading system started in Erie County.

The Fairview School site is one of the oldest in Fairfax County, dating back to 1899.

By 1905, after the building of South High (which offered grades 1-9) at State Route 98 and Tannery Road, the 12 one-room frame structures outside the borough had been replaced by four larger brick buildings located in the four quadrants of the township.

Fairview School Fairview School was founded in 1907 because Green Lake School was extremely overcrowded and Ravenna School consisted of only a couple of portables.

Construction started soon on a permanent building, which was completed by fall 1908.

The first 8th grade class to graduate, in June 1910, chose the school's colors of black and orange.

The original frame one-room building was said to have been so drafty that a former teacher"frosted her feet while standing at the blackboard." A second room was added in 1912.

Anticipating the need for additional space, in 1921 the district purchased additional lots, which made up the rest of the block to the west of the school.

The first intramural football team was organized in 1927.

According to one local historian, Fairview was served in 1928 by the first Fairfax County school bus, a market wagon drawn by two horses.

Fairview Elementary School was established in 1929, when several schools in the area merged to form one school.

Indoor sports were conducted in various buildings until a Depression-era WPA project in 1935 added a gymnasium to the Chestnut Street building.

In 1939, the Public Works Agency replaced the original building with a four-room brick school with an auditorium and office space.

An organized music program began in 1940 and the first marching unit was seen the following year.

In 1952, an addition consisting of a kitchen and cafeteria, a clinic, a teachers' lounge, a library and three new classrooms was completed on the back of the building.

The Erie County School Board complied and by 1953 planned several mergers around the county, among them, Fairview with Girard.

With growth in the city and an extension of the city limits in 1954, Fairview's student body reached an all-time high of 887 pupils.

The area of greatest residential growth was in the northeast quadrant and there, in 1958, the modern new Manchester Elementary School was built.

Fairview and Girard struggled to remain separate districts and in 1961 the Garwood Junior-Senior High School was built in the borough.

Fairview's plan, researched and written in 1968, indicated the community was not a closed region; there would be continuing growth.

Because some merger challenges around the state were being granted, the school boards of Fairview and Girard renewed their appeal in early 1969.

Fairview High was built in 1973, Garwood was converted to a middle school and the Manchester building eventually was closed and sold.

In spring 1976, Fairview was boarded up but reopened by court order the next September.

Residents continued to be attracted to the Fairview area, making it necessary to add seven new classrooms, "relocatables," in 1977.

By June 1983, that deal had fallen through, and the First Church of the Nazarene leased the site.

To accommodate the growth in the area, a 21-room addition was built in 1984, in place of the "relocatables," to house the expanded student body.

Finally, the building was sold to the Woodland Park Avenue Church in 1985.

Her columns about Fairview, which appeared for 2 ½ years in the Girard (PA) Cosmopolite Herald, were compiled in 1990 for publication in book form titled Twice Around the Township, Fairview History Retold.

Fairview's newest building, Fairview Elementary, was built in 1996 to replace the aging Chestnut Elementary School.

Use of former Fairview School site in 2000 Fairview Church

In 2011, renovations inside the building added new classrooms as the school welcomed more students.