Is your old school still standing or long since gone?

My high school has been standing for over 100 years.

My school’s building is still there, but it’s now for real estate.
I went to a small charter high school, with ~100 kids. The year after I graduated, in the middle of the semester, the school district decided to shut it down. They only sold the building earlier this year.

My high school is still standing, still huge, still over crowded.

My elementary, junior and high schools, all built during the Middle Ages, are still standing and operational. None them has honored me in any way.

I myself am Old School. And crumbling.

Some of the high schools I attended are still standing, some aren’t. The last one has been renovated, is more modern, and is unrecognizable as the same place.

@CyanoticWasp So still standing then. In a fashion~

The building itself (or buildings) still stand.. the school has since moved. I’m sure many of you have seen my old school, it’s where all the school scenes from “Almost Famous” (written and Directed by an alum) were filmed.

elementary, middle school, and high school are all still standing and in use but all have been vastly expanded to the point where I hardly recognize them since I was there and one has had a name change.

My elementary & high school (in different towns) are still standing & are still in operation.

My high school is long gone, except for the gym. the gym was the worst part of the whole school and why they refurbished it, i will never know.

Which school? I went to twelve different ones through 12th grade, and then went to five more universities. One of those I know is still standing because the University of Salamanca was founded In 1218, and is still going strong.

Interesting you asked this. A close friend of mine just told me two days ago that her high school is going to be demolished. My schools are all still standing. I went to two elementary schools, a jr. high, high, and college at Michigan State. They are very similar to how they were when I went there, no major changes. The second elementary school I went to has a better playground now. My university is in the process of building a new art museum, and has started renovating the cafeterias; I hope to go within the next year or two to check it all out and catch a football game.

One of my elementary schools, built in the 1940s, was turned into an office building in the 80s. About 20 years after that, it was demolished. I happened to be in town at the time and walked around the partially wrecked building.

The rest I think are schools, but I haven’t visited.

Whoa, I just looked at my high school’s web site. Only 2 out of 68 teachers are familiar to me. I am old!

My high school is definitely still there. My brothers both attend it. My middle school’s there, just saw it over winter break. I’m sure my elementary school in Vegas is still there, but I suppose I don’t know for sure. I think it has changed a bit, though. It was a K-5 magnet school when I went to it, but I think their focus has changed a bit since I went there from 1996–2002.

Alive and well, probably better than when I attended it.

All my schools are still in business. My first two elementary schools are now charter elementary schools for poor kids, as the neighborhoods they’re in have gone from bad to “OMG, WTF happened!?”. The rest are still the same as they ever were.

Letting the days go by…

Elementary, Middle, and High school are still functioning as schools. My preschool was sold and is now a Korean church.

Okay, so I went to check:

Memorial High School – I was told it was going to be torn down, but it hasn’t yet. The website still has it at the same location and the front doors look the same. Notable alumni include Michael Dell.

Greenwich High School is still in its “new” building. The old building, which is where I went to school and which was built in 1892, is now the Board of Education Building. I did find out that among our “famous alumni” is Truman Capote.

Miramonte High School is apparently still there in all its glory, having survived Death of a Cheerleader (Rolling Stone, 1984) and the ensuing Tori Spelling film, A Friend to Die For. The only notable graduate I could find is Rawson Marshall Thurber, the writer and director of the movie Dodgeball

I’m not going to bother with the rest of the twelve, except for my very first school, Grizzly Peak Primary School (formerly Little Hillside Primary School when I went to it) (closed 1981). This school was most notable for the cracks in the floors of the kindergarten classrooms, through which tiny Ringneck Snakes would crawl in the warm afternoons. Hence, my long interest in herpetology.

From Wikipedia:

“The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) built the present structure on the site of several homes that were destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley fire, which also destroyed Hillside’s predecessor on the nearby southwest corner of Le Roy and Virginia Street. BUSD closed Hillside because of a declining school age population, and because it sits near the Hayward Fault, which runs behind it on La Loma Avenue. Berkeley residents use the school’s playground as a de facto neighborhood park.”

And from the Hillside Association website:

“After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the School Board authorized a structural analysis of all of its buildings. While Hillside had some structural deficiencies, the analysis labeled Cragmont a potential collapse hazard. Exploring the possibility of moving students from Cragmont to Hillside, the District contracted with the engineering firm Harding Lawson Associates (HLA) to investigate soil conditions at Hillside. The HLA report indicated that a secondary trace of the Hayward Fault went under a portion of the building. The Alquist-Priolo Act of 1972 prohibits public schools from operating within 50 feet of an active fault; therefore, the District may not use the building for its original purpose. It may be possible to build a school elsewhere on the site, but that has not been explored.”

The school district wants to sell it but not to the city, and the neighborhood wants to keep it as open space and community use, and so it sits in limbo. Its current tenants include the Boy Scouts, the Berkeley Chess Club, several arts organizations, among others. The lawyers are circling. A picture of the school.

All the schools I went to there were quite a few as I was a military brat! are still standing. The final school I went to was the same school that my mum went to.

High school yes. Elementery school no.

The high school I went to has been around since the 30’s. It hosted the swim meets for the first L.A. Olympics and the field and a few buildings were in the first Grease movie.

Only 2 of the original buildings still stand, but so much has been added, including a huge fence around the entire thing. My high school was the last campus to be gated in the LAUSD. It happened 2 years after I graduated.

My old elementary school is now a community center, and looks better taken care of than it did when I attended.

Both my middle and high schools are still up and running, despite numerous attempts by both myself and others to burn the things to the ground Sophomore year (jk ;)

All the schools I attended are still functioning.
My high school graduating class gets together once a year and cleans the campus.

demolished in 1975

All of my schools are up and standing, doing well and not falling apart. I am lucky I grew up in Fairfax County so our schools got renovated in a timely manner.

My high school should should still be standing. I have to go back on monday.

As far as the elementary school, still there.

My K through the first half of 3rd grade elementary is still standing but is now a business building.

The high school I attended from 1958 – 1961 was built in 1924 and it is still there.

@YARNLADY – How interesting. My mother went to that exact same high school, but a few decades earlier. She was the first girl allowed to wear pants to school, in part because she rode horses before school.

My kids went to my old schools.

@Darwin huh, that is interesting.

@YARNLADY – We went back a few years ago. Her old house is still there, but painted a most unfortunate green. However, they moved the pioneer woman statue in the park – she was quite put out by that.

@Darwin I looked on Google Earth at our old house address, but there is a series of huge condo apartment buildings on our old block. It was very eerie, to see where all my childhood friends used to live, and we had parties in each others houses, and played in our back yards….all gone. Ihave pictures of a lot of them.

Still there, just upgraded.