Early School History

Beginning of the North Tonawanda School District:

The North Tonawanda Union School was established in 1866. The North Tonawanda School District was established in 1897, the year North Tonawanda became a City.

The first school house built in North Tonawanda was located on land donated by Colonel John Sweeney at what is now the corner of Main Street and Tremont Street. First United Methodist Church replaced its original 1842 building on this site in 1880. The first school building was 20'x30'. There were 21 taxpayers and 12 non-taxpayers in the settlement at the time.

From 1880 to 1887, at the corner of Grant Street and Christiana Street, where the Grant School building is now, there was an early school, the Maplegrove Seminary, which was a boarding school for girls. It later became known as the A. G. Meyer home, and in 1903, Raymond. T. Jones made his home there when he moved here from Elmira to establish the R. T. Jones Lumber Company.