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1807

Its only objective was to prepare boys for college, specifically Harvard (whose sole requirement for admission up until 1807 was the ability to read and speak both Latin and Greek). If you didn’t have plans to go to Harvard, you probably didn’t attend grammar school.

1821

In 1821, the first public high school was established: the English Classical School in Boston.

1864

Regardless, the members of the 1864 Annual Town Meeting voted to establish the Needham High School.

1870

It wasn’t until 1870 that the high school held its first classes in a dedicated schoolhouse — the brand new Hunnewell School, located on the triangular lot bounded by Central Street, Weston Road, and Cross Street.

1907

So Perrin fought for and, in 1907, oversaw the separation of grades six through nine from the grammar schools.

1911

Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine (1911)

1915

That was, of course, because of World War I. Starting as early as 1915, students — mostly boys, but many girls as well — dropped out as the labor force grew in response to the conflict in Europe.

1916

Normalcy resumed in 1916 when the number of grades went back down to twelve after the ninth grade at the grammar level was incorporated into the eighth grade.

1919

Obituary Record of Graduates and Non-Graduates of Amherst College (1919)

1938

A new modern high School is built for $115 million dollars on the same site as the 1938 building.

1983

It wasn’t until 1983 that the ninth grade moved back into the high school when the current Middle School structure was established for grades six through eight.

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