Dogwood  Elementary (C)

Dora Kennedy  (H) 1937

 Strawberry Plains Pike In 1963, Dora Kennedy shared a principal with Union School. The first 5 grades went to Dora Kennedy and the other three attended Union. (KNS 1963) It closed when East Knox County Elementary school was opened. Currently used as a community center. (KNS 1980)

Doyle High (H) 1967, became South-Doyle

Doyle Middle 

Opens in 1972. later South-Doyle Middle

East Emory School

listed as a school for black children (The Knoxville Journal and Tribune of June 8, 1911)

 

East End  1905,

1540 Laurans Ave. (CD 1905, 1910)

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East High 

Opened in 1951, later merged with Austin to become Austin-East

 

East Knox Elementary

(C) Opened about 1979/80

 

 

East Knoxville School Temperance Hall 1869

 

 

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East Port High (B)

Humes, nw cor Sanders (CD 1915)

 

 

East Portland High School (B) 1913

  in Park City became Eastport elementary

fomerly East Port High. Located first at Humes and Sanders, Small Fire in 1927 Fuller & McConnell St, (1927), Land on Bethel Ave was purchased for a new school in 1931. The school opened in 1933 or '34 St 2036 Bethel Ave.

 

East Tennessee Female Institute

formerly Knoxville Institute Female Institute open in 1866-7 and closed in 1868. Reopened in 1881 as a Girl's school for Knoxville, Building torn down in 1889. New school opened in 1890. Private school from 1901-1908. JR Dean was elected remained in charge until 1856 in which year he was succeeded by RL Kirkpatrick who remained in charge until the beginning of the war. After the war the institute was again opened, three trustees Thomas W Humes, Horace Maynard, and George M White, accepting a proposition from John F Spence to open a school provided the buildings were restored to its former uses by the provost marshal. During the spring of 1866 the school was again in session and Mr Spence remained two years. From that time until 1881 the school was not in session and in this year the building was leased by the board of education for a girls high school and was used for this purpose until 1885. From that time on until 1888 Mrs Lizzie C French conducted therein a flourishing female seminary.

In the years 1889 and 1890, a new building for this institute was erected at No 702 Main Street  which is one of the finest school buildings in Knoxville. The building is of brick, the main part being three stories high above the basement. The rooms are large, well lighted and ventilated, and are well supplied with apparatus, books and maps for teaching languages, science, art, and history. The principal of this institute since 1890 has been Charles C Ross.  (Rule) (Photo credit:  Unknown photographer (Calvin M. McClung Digital Collection) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

 

East Tennessee Normal School

Chartered on March 5, 1880 (Source: Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed at the General Assembly, Volume 42)

 

 Ebenezer Academy

1811 founded by the Reverend Samuel Graham Ramsey

 

Ebeneezer Elem.

with other schools, it became Bluegrass in 1938

 

           

Ebeneezer School for Negroes c.1875

 

 

Edgewood (D) 

 There was an earlier school for white children on the other side of Broadway (Coker Ave).  Edgewood (B) 1912 Krone Ave near Broadway and Lincoln Park, it was two-room school above the present Broadway Shopping Center (KNS 1996), listed at Krone Ave at Edgewood (CD 1905, 1915) an unnamed school is on the 1895 map, just South of this school. Map area 2 1895 map) listed as a school for black children (The Knoxville Journal and Tribune of June 8, 1911)

1927: Contract let to build a new Edgewood for Negroes

1928: Old Edgewood School for sale on Coker Av,  (1935:

In 1935, there is a story about Charlton Karns who lived on a 200 acre dairy farm in Lincoln Park. He said that he attended Edgewood School on Lawson St before it was a black school.

1938: PTA asks for a raise for teachers

1939: Vandals break school windows

1947: Move students to a new school

1949: Complaint that Fulton construction blocked the children from reaching the school.  A new school was constructed on Auburn St off Freemont.

1949: Edgewood students to continue to go to school at present location until new school can be built

1949: Students from Edgewood to be transferred to Eastpoint

1955, when the property was sold, the Knoxville School Board voted to send the children by bus to Maynard School. (KNS)

 

Edington School House

1895 map, Dist 13 near Knoxville & Augusta RR

 

 

Elmwood Elementary 1928

on Millertown Pike Near Millertown (KNS 1933)

 

Elmwood School

 Elmwood School board requests to use the Lamar St Center after the top floor of their present building was declared unsafe (KNS, 1956), on Beaumont for special education (KNS 1961) 1211 Beaumont

Fairgarden 

Fair Garden Elementary (H) 400 Fern St opened in 1910, a new brick building was built in 1915 and an addition in 1926. (KNS 1926) listed on Fair Garden Rd (CD 1915)

 

Fairview  

Built in 1875 black two room frame building in Moses Addition on land deeded by Col. John L Moses. "The first public school for blacks, Fairview Elementary, was built on Dora Street in Mechanicsville by black residents of that community in 1875. It was operated by Knox County. When the area was annexed by the city in 1883, it became a city school and was then operated by the city until Maynard Elementary was built in 1897." (Robert Booker KNS 2012) (CD 1890)

 

Fairview  School

Fairview  1895

near Post Oak Island in the river, Blue Grass 9 area 11 (1895 map)

 

Fairview School  1895

Near Anderson County line and Clinch River, near Johnson Ferry, students transferred to Fairview when Hardin Valley School burned,closed in 1981, most students transferred to Karnes (KNS 1991)

 

 

Fancy Hill (historic) 

South of Ritta , District 3, 1895 map, near Shannondale Presbyterian Church.

The school officially opened on Thanksgiving Day when students from Luttrell, Chestnut Grove and Fancy Hill schools marched with their teachers to the new building. Ritta was expanded in 1926 to make room for students transferred from the old Washington School (KNS 1998) McClung 1888/89 Photo Link on McCampbell Rd

 Farragut Schools

 

 

 Farragut School(D) 1903

Agriculture is emphasized at the Farragutt High School There is in connection with this school a farm of twelve acres on which crops are grown and experiments are conducted The Farragutt High School stands for a better agriculture more comfortable farm homes and the highest ideals of country life. Both the high schools are well attended and the work in each is characterized by the highest enthusiasm . (Report, By Tennessee. Dept. of Public Instruction, 1911) Farragut High 1903 1/a>907 Link , 1920's McClung Photo Link Link 2 Farragut High School Extension Building 1921 McClung Photo Link&    Farragut Elementary 1904

 

Farragut Primary School  (C)

509 N Campbell Station Rd.

 

Farragut High  High (C)

11237 Kingston Pike

Farragut Intermediate

208 West End Ave, Knoxville

Farragut Middle (C)

 2200 West End Ave

Fernlee/ Fernleigh
private school
Thomas Israel Stephenson, who was born in 1898, attended Fernleigh School from 1906-1908. The family lived on 5th Ave.
(Source: Who's who in Tennessee: A Reference Edition Recording the Biographies of Contemporary Leaders in Tennessee with Special Emphasis on Their Achievements in Making the Volunteer State One of America's Greatest. Frank Embrick Bass, Historical Record Association, 1961)

 

 

First Apostolic Christian School (P)

Founded about 1976 on Pleasant Ridge Rd

 

 

First Lutheran School (P)

1207 N Broadway,

 

First Sub-district School(B)

Basement Shiloh Church, South side of Clinch, corner Henley (CD 1869)

 

 

Flenniken School  

In 1907 listed on Maryville Pike at Vestal. 115 Flenniken St, built in 1918 (KNS (1931) Additions to be built on each side of the main building. A new auditorium and library will also be added. (KNS 1926) before 1998.  Currently called Flenniken Landing, it is a 48- unit permanent supportive housing development in Knoxville.

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Flint Hill (historic) 

before 1886 in District 7 in 1880's (Cline Cousins: Kline, Klein, Cline - Page 80)  JA Cox has been awarded the contract to erect the Flint Hill school house (Southern Hardware, Volume 68, W.R.C. Smith Publishing Company, 1912, p. 51)

 

  Ford School

Old Valley Rd 1895 map district 14 near Ford PO, SE of Woodlawn Cemetery and N of Brown Mountain

 

 Forest Hill School

Located in the gap at Greenway before Smithwood was built.The Forest Hill school, of the 2d district, 4 miles north of town, opened on the 4th inst,
Miss Kate Baird, teacher. Thirteen scholars were present the first day. Good frame house,
22x32 feet (Source:Knoxville daily chronicle. (Knoxville, Tenn.), 14 Sept. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Link)

 Forestdale/ Forest Dale

1895 map district 2, N of Washington Pike, near Arlington Brick Yard and Broadway

 

Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders (H) new Fort Sanders School opened in 1957. The bell from Van Guilder was moved to the school (KNS 1957) The school was closed in 1982 (KNS 1982)

Fort Sanders Education Development Center (C) Opened in the Fort Sanders Elementary School after the school closed.

 

 Fort Sumpter

1895 District 1, near Union County, near Halls Cross Rds,  listed as voting place for the 7th District (KNS 1948) ca 1914 McClung Photo Link

Fountain City 

abt 1920

Hotel Ave, sw corner 5th (CD 1905, 1915)

Fountain City Elementary (C) 1920 2910 Montbelle Dr

 

Fourth Sub-district School(B) Eastport (1869 CD)

 

 

 

 Fraker School

Dist 4 1895 map, near House Mountain PO and McBee's Mill, west side of Washington Pike at jct w/ present Zacharytown Rd. In Aug of 1873, William Anton Fraker granted a tract in District 4 to Knox County School Directors. Recorded in book L3 page 543.

 

Fulton High 

Opened in 1952

2509 N Broadway

 

 

Galbraith  (Historic)

to take some students from the old Giffin School which was closed two years ago (KNS 1930). The new school was dedicated in 1931. The school is closed in 1977 over objections from the community.(KNS 1977)

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Gap Creek 

1895 map district 15

Kimberlin Heights Rd ca 1915 McClung Photo Link

 

 Garland School

South East of Concord, and West of East Emory and Blue Grass schools, combined with others to form Bluegrass in 1938

 Gay Street School

  

 

German Lutheran School

There will be a meeting in behalf of erecting a German Lutheran School and Church, in the Sunday School room of the Second Presbyterian Church. (Source: Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. (Knoxville, Tenn.), 11 Sept. 1867. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress)

 

Gibbs Schools

Gibbs Elementary 1935

Gibbs High School 1913 McClung Photo Link, ca 1920' McClung School Link In 1937, it was announced that a new Gibbs High would be built on the site of the old school. In 1950, the new Gibbs High burned1954, and 1970 (C)    Gibbs Middle 1977

 

 

Gibbs  High

7628 Tazewell Pike

 

 

 

Giffin 

 1910 first on Seveirville Pike, later on Beech St, 3 new classrooms added in 1957 (KNS 1957), also a new school opened in 1928, replacing the old Minnis School. (KNS 1931) In 1931, both Giffin (beech) and Old Giffin (Sevier Ave)are listed.  Later it was used by Remote Area Medical (RAM).

 

Girls High School 

Girls High and graded 1869, S side of Main at Henley (no photo)

Girls High School Gay, ne corner of Clinch (CD 1887) Walnut and Union (CD 1889)

 

 

Glennwood School

W Glennwood Ave (CD 1915), later Brownlow School

 

Gratz St School

located on Gratz St (the street runs from Morgan St to Wells Ave) became McCallie,  (1928) 997-998 Gratz

 

 Graybill's (Graybeal's) School

On Knox County 1895 map, listed in the 9th district (KNS 1929). abandoned when Farragut opened

 

 

 Gravely School

abandoned when Farragut opened

 

 

Green 

Green (C) Payne Ave, NE corner of Pritchard in 1957, new building on Townview, listed in city directory 1915 (CD 1915)

 

 Green Hill School

or Greenhill  Brushy Valley Rd, near Pedigo PO, closed in 1979, students transferred to Copper Ridge

 

 

  Gresham Gresham Jr, then Middle (C) 500 Gresham Rd

1971: The old Central High School became Gresham Middle when the new Central High opened.