Florida Schools In The Early 1900s May Shock You. They’re So Different.
Historical photos reveal the evolution of Florida schools and students from the early 1900s.
Whether you loved it or hated it, school was an important part of growing up. The history of public schools in our country goes back hundreds of years, and the education system continues to evolve. These photos of schools and students from a century ago show just how much Florida schools have changed:
Children out in front of a public school
Saint Augustine, 1902.
Fulford School portrait
Miami, 1909 or 1910.
Osceola high school
Kissimmee, sometime in the 1910s.
Children pose with horse-drawn school bus
West Palm Beach, 1911.
Miami Beach Public School
Miami Beach, 1920.
Aucilla school with principal Mr. Johnson, and teachers Bertha Heath and Sue May
Aucilla, 1904 or 1905.
Group portrait of students outside School #3 in east Jacksonville
Taken sometime in the 1910s.
School class portrait
Lake Alfred, 1911.
School - Immokalee, Florida
Taken sometime in the 1910s.
High school building
Estimated to be from sometime in the 1910s.
School building
Lamont, Florida, sometime in the 1920s.
One room school
Greensboro, 1907
School teachers
Socrum, Polk County, 1909.
Sarasota High School
Sarasota, sometime in the 1910s.
High school- Dania, Florida
Taken in 1913.
Unidentified school
High Springs, 1900 to 1903.
Students posing outside the one-room school
Eastpoint, sometime in the 1910s.
School children beside their automobile bus
Piedmont, 1913.
Chapman high school
Apalachicola, sometime in the 1910s.
Glen School
Glen Saint Mary, 1908.
Punta Rassa school students and teacher
Punta Rassa, 1910.
Lakeland High School building
Lakeland, sometime in the 1910s.
Students posed in front of the third public school
DeLand, sometime in the 1910s.
New High School
St. Petersburg, 1913.
School dance group holding tambourines
Orlando, sometime in the 1910s.
Class portrait before school building
Crawfordville, 1907 or 1908.
School class portrait
Quincy, 1914.
Front view of a new school building
West Palm Beach, 1909.
Newberry Junior High School students
Newberry, 1906.
Jackson Bluff School students
Leon County, 1907.
What did you think about these photos? Were you surprised by how much things have changed?
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