Toledo Public Schools

Toledo Public Schools, also known as Toledo City School District, is a public school district headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, in the United States. The district encompasses 70 square miles, serving students of the city of Toledo. Toledo Public Schools (TPS), serves 23,324 students (2018-2019 school year) and is the fourth largest district in the state. Since 2013, TPS has experienced growth in student enrollment from 21,353 students to 23,324 for the 2018-2019 school year.

The district has seen the graduation rate improve 7.5 percent since 2014. The 4-year graduation rate for students who entered the 9th grade in 2014 and graduated by 2017 was 71.4 percent. The 5-year graduation rate for students who entered the 9th grade in fall of 2013 and graduated by the summer of 2017 was 78.5 percent.

TPS budget includes local, state, federal, and other funds, totaling more than $447.3 million (2017-2018 school year). The majority (63.2 percent) of the districts budget comes from state funding, 22.4 percent from local sources, and 11.5 percent from federal funds. In 2018, TPS was the regions fifth largest employer behind ProMedica Health System, Mercy Health Partners, The University of Toledo, and Fiat Chrysler, with 4373 employees. The district employees 1835 teachers (2018) who are represented by the Toledo Federation of Teachers. Other district staff are part of the Toledo Association of Administrative Personnel and The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Dr. Romules Durant became the district's superintendent on August 1, 2013.

School uniforms

Students are allowed to wear any solid colored polo and certain types of pants. High school as of 2016-2017 school year and on are allowed to wear anything.

Schools

Grades 9-12

*Bowsher High School
* Rogers High School
* Scott High School
* Start High School
* Toledo Early College
*Toledo Technology Academy
* Waite High School
* Woodward High School

Grades 7-12

* Jones Leadership Academy of Business

Former/Closed High Schools

* Central (Toledo) High School (''1853-1938'')
* DeVilbiss High School (''1931-1991'')
* Jefferson Center for Vocational Rehabilitation (''1970-2000'')
*Libbey High School (''1923-2010'')
* Macomber High School (''1938-1991'')
* Nexus Academy (-2017)
* Whitney High School (''1939-1991'')
* Spencer-Sharples High School (''part of the district from 1967-1980'')

Grades K-8

*Beverly Elementary School
*Byrnedale Elementary School
*Deveaux Elementary School
*East Broadway Elementary School
*Jones Elementary School
*Leverette Elementary School
*Mc Tigue Elementary School
*Robinson Elementary School

Pre-Schools K-8 some in 2011-2012 will not be open
*Arlington Elementary School
*Beverly Elementary School
*Birmingham Elementary School
*Burroughs Elementary School
*Chase Elementary School
*Crossgates Elementary School (Preschool Only)
*East Side Central Elementary School (Closed)
*Edgewater Elementary School
*Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls
*Elmhurst Elementary School
*Fulton Elementary School (Closed, 1894-2010)
*Garfield Elementary School
*Glendale-Feilbach Elementary School
*Glenwood Elementary School
*Harvard Elementary School
*Hawkins Elementary School
*Keyser Elementary School
*Lagrange Elementary School (Closed)
*Lincoln Academy for Boys (Closed)
*Longfellow Elementary School
*Marshall Elementary School
*Martin Luther King for boys
*McKinley Elementary School
*Nathan Hale Elementary School (Closed)
*Navarre Elementary School
*Oakdale Elementary School
*Old Orchard Elementary School
*Pickett Elementary School
*Raymer Elementary School
*Reynolds Elementary School
*Riverside Elementary School
*Rosa Parks Elementary School
*Sherman Elementary School
*Walbridge Elementary School
*Westfield Elementary School
*Whittier Elementary School

Grades K-8

*Grove Patterson Academy
*Larchmont K-7 (adding a grade each year) (K-8 in 2011-2012)
*Old West End Academy
*Ottawa River

History of Toledo Public Schools

(''collected from the Woodward Technical High School yearbook'' 1927-28)

In 1853, the first Toledo high school was built on the block surrounded by Adams, Madison, Michigan, and 10th streets (currently occupied by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library). The building was finished in 1857 and the first class graduated from Central High School in 1858.

In 1872, Jesup W. Scott selected a body of trustees to establish a “University of Arts and Trades” for the city of Toledo. A donation of $15,000 by trustee William H. Raymond in 1873, followed by a donation of $50,000 by Scott’s family following his death on January 22, 1874 helped set up a school of design in the original high school by January 1875.

Unable to carry out the wishes of donors, the trustees tendered the property to the city of Toledo in January 1884. The Scott Manual Training School was opened and had the distinction of being one of the first such schools to offer courses in Domestic Science. The building was destroyed by a fire in March 1885, but was rebuilt as a much larger structure in 1886 with sixty-one rooms and an auditorium that was larger than the original building.

Until 1913, this was the city’s only high school building except for a few years where the first two years of high school were offered at East Side Central. Students were eventually transferred over to Jesup W. Scott High School in 1913 and Morrison R. Waite High School (named for Justice Morrison Waite) in 1914 when these schools were opened.

In January 1912 the Elementary Industrial School was established within the Central building with an emphasis on mechanical drawing and woodwork. When the remaining high school students left for Waite, the industrial school sought a new name. The new school was named Woodward Junior High School for Calvin M. Woodward, an advocate of manual training. When the school added four-year classes, it became Woodward Technical High School.

With four high schools established by 1923 (Scott in the west end, Waite in the east side, Woodward Tech near the north, and Central Catholic near downtown), a suitable high school was necessary for the south end. Edward Drummond Libbey High School was built and named for the Libbey Glass founder and Toledo Art Museum creator who gave money for the school’s property on Western Avenue.

In 1927, Vocational High School was established in the Woodward Tech building as well. Woodward Tech would move into a new building on Streicher Street in 1928 and become Calvin M. Woodward High School. Vocational High School remained in the old building until 1938 when it moved into a new location on Monroe Street and became Irving E. Macomber Vocational High School.

In 1931, Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School was also built in the quickly-expanding west end and named for a local industrialist. Harriet Whitney Vocational High School was also established in 1939 as a girls’ trade school, and it would eventually become joint-operational with Macomber in 1959.

In April 1937, Woodward High School displayed a Tesla Coil formerly owned by Nikola Tesla