![]() ![]() Two new high school buildings were built, Niles Township West, in 1958, and Nile Township North, a few years later. The population explosion of the 1950s and 1960s brought about the need for new schools. The building that became known as Niles Township East, and served as the township’s first high school, was not dedicated until 1939. Initially they were held in the Lincoln Elementary School. ![]() ![]() Six elementary schools were operating within the present boundaries of the village by the time high school classes were inaugurated in Niles Center in 1931. Alma Klehm, one of the earliest Niles Center settlers to attend high school, described a commute that required a walk or bicycle ride to the Morton Grove railroad station and then a train ride to the Mayfair High School in Chicago. Simply getting to a high school in the second half of the nineteenth century was a chore indeed. The original Fairview School, the village’s first, was constructed in 1858, the same year that Henry Harms opened the first store in the settlement that would one day become known as Skokie.įor most of the area’s early pioneers, schooling ended in the elementary grades. Skokie: A Centennial History Skokie: A Centennial History Search Contents 9 Education and SchoolsįORMAL EDUCATION in Skokie dates back to the days before the Civil War, and some 30 years before the village was incorporated. ![]()
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