How many Canton city High schools were there before it was whittled down to just McKinley? I know about Timken.
Toledo.....Ottawa Hills is their own school district so having Toledo before their name is a misnomer...Whitmer is not a TPS, but rather in the Washington Local Schools. Toledo CC, Toledo Christian, Emmanuel Baptist, St Johns, St Francis parochial......Bowsher, Woodward, Scott, Waite, Start, Rogers...TPSs.
Sandusky Perkins....not a Sandusky school, but in Perkins Twp with a Sandusky address...
Galion Northmor….not a Galion city school....But a district in Northern Morrow county with a Galion Address.
From 1941 to 1976, Canton City Schools had 4 public high schools: McKinley (8th and N. Market), Timken (corner of Tuscarawas and McKinley), Lehman (corner of 15th and Oxford NW), and Lincoln (corner of 6th and Harrison SW).
In addition, St. John HS was a small coed Catholic school operating in downtown Canton (corner of 6th and McKinley NW) until 1945 when they merged with Mt. Marie College to form Canton Central Catholic HS. Until additions were completed at the Mt. Marie campus in the fall of 1950, all boys took classes in the St. John building. Central Catholic has a Canton address but is located in Perry Twp.
Lincoln and Lehman were closed as HSs at the end of the '75-'76 school year. Following that restructuring of the schools, Timken was repackaged as a Senior HS as opposed to its previous designation as a Vocational HS. McKinley moved from its former location on North Market Ave. (it's now a convalescent home) to its current location on 17th NW (near the Pro Football HoF). Lehman became a junior high, and Lincoln eventually became home to Heritage Christian School which offered HS classes up until this past school year. McKinley is now the only Senior HS in town, but all 9th graders still take classes at the Timken building. Incidentally, the original Lehman building and stadium still stand today, but a new Lehman building was constructed at the corner of 13th and Broad NW.
In addition to the schools in Canton proper, other schools in the surrounding townships have Canton mailing addresses. Canton South was the result of a merger of the much smaller Waco and North Industry schools that were located in Canton Twp. The school was originally known as Canton Twp. but assumed the name of Canton South in 1948.
To the north, Middlebranch HS served Plain Twp. until the '50s when it was replaced by Canton Glenwood (just east of the intersection of 44th and Cleveland) and North Canton Oakwood (just west of the intersection of Schneider and Middlebranch). Those 2 HSs merged in 1975 to become GlenOak which carries a Canton mailing address today.
You also have HSs in East Canton and North Canton, but those 2 communities have always been separate from Canton. They were originally known as Osnaburg and New Berlin. East Canton serves Osnaburg Twp. and is known as the Osnaburg Local SD. North Canton serves its own city as well as Greentown which merged with North Canton in 1957. At that time, North Canton HS started to become known as Hoover HS.
Other smaller schools from back in the day include Canton Trinity Christian which existed for a brief time in the '80s as part of the Trinity Gospel Temple located next to I-77 on Tuscarawas Ave. and Brunnerdale Seminary located at the NW corner of Hills and Dales and Brunnerdale, which as its name suggests, was a seminary from 1931-1981 and whose property was transformed into the Jack Nicklaus-designed Glenmoor Country Club. Brunnerdale Seminary was not in Canton proper but was an OHSAA member for a time and carried a Canton mailing address. No football, but they competed in basketball and baseball at the very least.
