The old Maysville Academy school building where U. S. Grant attended		The Academy, on Fourth, near the old hill. From a Facebook post by Charles William Marshall

Plum Street School, kinda looking south
From a Facebook post by Lisa Collins

 

First District School
From a Facebook post by Lisa Collins

First District School, Maysville, 1917	First Ward School	First Ward School, 1935	First District, with Prof. Martin
A list of the teachers and board members of the first ward school are here.

Back of First District School
The sign by the door says “Eat Carrots and you will be beautiful.”

 

Third District School	New Maysville Schools, 1935

 

Fifth Ward School and Staff From a Facebook post by John Harmon

 

Fifth Ward School, a.k.a. The Forest Avenue School center, c. 1928, from a Facebook post by Michael Purdon
A list of the teachers and board members of the Fifth Ward school are here.

 

High School, built c. 1880 at Fourth and Market

 

Maysville High School
Built in 1907, C. C. Weber, Architect

 

First Ward School	Fifth Ward School	Colored High School	Maysville High School
These four pictures are all from the Maysville Public Ledger of April 9, 1910, as are the stories below of the school board and the superintendent of the time:

 

Part1	Part 2	Part 3
Read about Miss Jessie O. Yancey, Superintendent of Mason County School, here.

 

“It's a Maysville High bus, an REO Speedwagon, which my great-grandfather, C. L. Mains (standing behind
the hood) sold while in business with Mr. Gaither.” - Charles Mains
from a Facebook post by Kirby Wright

 

Woodleigh School	Woodleigh. Key to names.	Woodleigh School
From a Facebook post by Linda Long Perry	From a Facebook post by David Henson

 

Class of 1937	Maysville School Classes		Maysville Class of 1954 in Washington, May, 1954

 

 

Hangin' Out outside the High School
From a Facebook post by Ron Bailey

 

	Cornerstone Laying for  New School, May 14, 1908
Children forming for line of march to laying of corner stone new High School Building, May 14th,1908.  Published by the Sallie S. Wood Drug Store, 2nd and Market Sts., Maysville
Read lots more about the cornerstone laying event, here.

 

1958 John G. Fee School. Names.

Read more about the Fee School at the Ledger Independent's site.

Maysville Colored High School, c. 1910

Seven graduate from Maysville's Colored High School in 1890.  Story here.

“Maysville is the only city of its size in Kentucky that can boast of a new high school costing $500,000. Prof. W. H. Humphrey, who is principal of the Maysville school, has included a program of vocational education that teaches young colored boys and girls to become mechanic's, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, stenographers, beauty culturists, and expert maids, cooks, and butlers.” uncredited clipping, December 21, 1930

  

Maysville Community College, 1969

 

Mrs. Cartmell's School for Boys and Girls
Near Limestone, between Second and Third

 

These are from the Mason County School Fair of 1914

Miss Cartmell's Preparatory School, 1910, here.	Miss Johnson's Commercial School, 1910, here.
The Maysville Atheneum, a library and reading room, was chartered in 1840.
A list of other early Mason County schools is here.	Miss Gordon's Training School, 1910, here.

The 1947-48 Maysville Basketball Schedule

  The Class of 1913.  from the left, the basketball team, class picture, and senior Lisle Threlkeld runs track.
Members of the class of 1913 are listed here.