Monroe County School District history

Excellent public schools have been a hallmark of Winnetka since 1859, when citizens financed the Village’s first public school, a decade before the Village’s official incorporation.

In November of 1876, Hubbard was elected Governor of Connecticut, the first to be elected to a two-year term.

On February 28, 1884, Richard D. Hubbard died in Hartford, Connecticut.

Hubbard Woods School was considered to be architecturally innovative when it was completed in 1915.

The building’s name was changed to Skokie School when it was five months old, and it was subsequently renamed Hubbard Woods School when the current Skokie School opened in 1922.

Crow Island School, which opened its doors to students in the fall of 1940, was conceived by then-superintendent Carleton Washburne as the physical embodiment of the child-centered principles of the Progressive Education movement.

Crow Island Pioneer Room, circa 1975.

Monroe County Middle School was founded when Tompkinsville High School and Gamliel High School consolidated in 1985.

The middle school was first called Gamaliel Middle School and was housed at the Gamaliel school building until spring 1991.

In the fall, the middle school moved to Tompkinsville in the old high school building and remained there until 1992 when the school moved into a new building adjacent to Monroe County High School.