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Built in 1908 in the Italianate and neo-classical style, Indianola Elementary/Junior High School was designed by David Rieble, a prolific school architect. In September 1909, this building offered the nation’s first junior high curriculum, created to lower school drop-out rates by easing the transition to high school. The junior high... Read more

Built in 1908 in the Italianate and neo-classical style, Indianola Elementary/Junior High School was designed by David Rieble, a prolific school architect. In September 1909, this building offered the nation’s first junior high curriculum, created to lower school drop-out rates by easing the transition to high school. The junior high movement was a collaborative brainchild of Superintendent Shawan of Columbus Schools and OSU President William Oxley Thompson. Because of the school’s close proximity to the University, college life and neighborhood concerns were always interwoven. In the decades before World War I, many children dropped out of school after grade eight to begin work, unless they were from more wealthy families. Elementary and junior high students attended the school together until 1929 when the school became too crowded and classes flowed into the school yard in temporary dwellings. A new school – which was the country’s first junior high to be built specifically as a junior high – opened in 1929 at 420 East 19th Avenue and is featured in site number 283. In 1975, Indianola Elementary became the first designated alternative school in Columbus with an “informal” progressive child-discovery curriculum. The stained glass at the front door was designed by students, and the Butterfly sculpture at the front walk was designed by D’Lynn Stinzianzo when she was a child at the school. Today, she is a well-known muralist, ceramic artist and neighborhood resident.

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140 E 16th Ave, Columbus, OH 43201, USA
Columbus, Ohio 43201
Franklin County

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