Central High School is a school located in Santurce barrio of

San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jur ...

. The 1925-built building was listed on the U.S.

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in 1987. It is a three-story, U-shaped building with

Spanish Renaissance architecture Spanish Renaissance architecture was that style of Renaissance architecture in the last decades of the 15th century. Renaissance evolved firstly in Florence and then Rome and other parts of the Italian Peninsula as the result of Renaissance huma ...

. Its National Register nomination asserts that "Central High School is, for many reasons, the most important school structure built in Puerto Rico in the first decades of the XXth century." with It was built as part of a building program that also yielded the

Ponce High School The Ponce High School is public educational institution in Ponce, Puerto Rico, offering grades nine through twelve. The school's main building is a historic structure located on Cristina Street, in the Ponce Historic Zone. From its beginning t ...

, built in 1915, and the

Gautier Benítez High School The Gautier Benitez High School, a school named after Puerto Rican poet José Gautier Benítez, was built in 1924 in Caguas, Puerto Rico and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is a U-shaped, two-story concrete struct ...

in Caguas, built in 1924.

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National Archives Catalog #131518310
National Register of Historic Places in San Juan, Puerto Rico School buildings completed in 1925 Schools in Puerto Rico School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places 1925 establishments in Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-school-stub