Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio)

Boarded up Central High School building

Central High School was a public high school in the Central neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1846^[1] and merged with East Tech in 1952.^[2] It had several locations during its existence. The school served white and African American students.

History[]

It was the first high school in Cleveland and the first free public high school west of the Alleghenies. The school began in a Universalist church basement. After Ohio City was annexed to Cleveland, West High School was established as a division of the school since state law allowed only one public high school in Cleveland.^[3]

Alumni[]

Langston Hughes at Central High

John L. Severance, businessman and philathropist
Marcus A. Hanna, businessman and U.S. senator
Samuel Mather, businessman and philanthropist
Langston Hughes,^[1] writer
Louis Stokes, lawyer, politician, and civil rights leader
Benjamin O. Davis Sr., army general
Noble Sissle^[2]
John D. Rockefeller, businessman and philanthropist
Harry Edward Davis, lawyer and state legislator
Russell Howard Davis, educator, activist, and historian. An alumnus he returned to the school as its principal.^[4]
Thaddeus Spratlen, business school professor^[5]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. May 22, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Ott, Thomas (February 26, 2011). "Cleveland's Central High School turned out leaders in many fields: Black History Month". The Plain Dealer.
^ Pianka, Jim Dubelko with research support from Raymond L. "West High - Cleveland Builds its First Public High School on the West Side". Cleveland Historical.
^ "Finding aid for the Russell Howard Davis Papers". catalog.wrhs.org.
^ "Teacher, advocate and pioneer: Thaddeus Spratlen's trailblazing legacy". Fisher College of Business. Retrieved 2021-07-13.

[encyc-1] "CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. May 22, 2018.

[black-2] Ott, Thomas (February 26, 2011). "Cleveland's Central High School turned out leaders in many fields: Black History Month". The Plain Dealer.

[3] Pianka, Jim Dubelko with research support from Raymond L. "West High - Cleveland Builds its First Public High School on the West Side". Cleveland Historical.

[4] "Finding aid for the Russell Howard Davis Papers". catalog.wrhs.org.

[5] "Teacher, advocate and pioneer: Thaddeus Spratlen's trailblazing legacy". Fisher College of Business. Retrieved 2021-07-13.

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