The Morgan Academy
On  Bullittsville Road, next to old cemetery
Built c. 1857. Previously operated as Boone Academy, since 1814.
A short history of the Morgan Academy is here. (pdf)

The Rising Sun Times visits the academy in 1835. Their story is here.

Boone Academy changed to Morgan Academy in 1842.

Boone Academy, Burlington,Ky “Teachers are wanted to conduct the male and female departments of the above Institution, as both the teachers now engaged in said school will leave at the end of the present session. No teacher need apply whose moral character is not unexceptional, and who cannot come well-recommended, as it regards qualifications, to teach a respectable Academy. The next session will commence on the first Monday in October ensuing. By order of the Board of Trustees: E. Collins, E. S. Armstrong, J., M Preston”from an 1835 Lawrenceburg, Indiana newspaper

You can find the Academy at the north end of this 1883 map.

 

Burlington one-room school on Orient Street
From a Facebook post by the Boone County Local History Department

The first Burlington school	Boone County School Bus

 

Burlington School, opened in 1911
The Burlington High School teams were the “Burlington Tomcats,”
at some point, but were the Burlington Eagles in 1954, at the time of the merger into BCHS.

 

Faculty, 1918

 

Seniors, 1916

 

Juniors               Sophomores                Freshman
All 1916

 

Intermediate Grades              Primary Grades
Both 1916

 

Looking west, toward the Main & Dixie split, c. 1956.
From a Facebook post by Dan Moore

 

Cooking Class            Agriculture Class              Sewing Class
All 1917

 

Girls & Boys Basketball Teams, 1918

Going Home from School, 1917	Burlington Conservation Club, c. 1950. Key.

There's a profusely illustrated history book on Burlington, in
 the Arcadia Images of America Series.