Schools
Grammar Schools
By the end of the decade, Libertyville and its close environs supported four elementary schools: Central School, Rockland School, Hawthorn Farm School, and St. Joseph’s Catholic School. Three of these were built in the 1920s. By the end of the decade, in 1929, the grammar school enrollment in the village of Libertyville was a little over 500 pupils.
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Rockland (pictured here in the 1950s) was built in 1926 and cost $73,000. Four rooms were added on in 1928.
Image courtesy Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society, Carl Cizek photograph colletion.
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Hawthorn was built in 1923 at a cost of $18,000; a year later it was cited by the assistant to the state superintendent of Public Instruction as “the best elementary school in the state.”
Image courtesy Hawthorn School, Vernon Hills, Illinois.
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Central School was the oldest school in Libertyville; it was built in 1886. Pictured below is Miss Cropley's third grade class at Central School, taken in 1921.
Image courtesy Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society |
St. Joseph’s School was built in 1926 at a cost of $100,000.
Image courtesy Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society |
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Libertyville Township High School
Although high school classes were taught in Libertyville in 1889, it wasn’t until 1917 that high school students had their own school building. What we now call the "Brainerd Building” was built in 1917 as the Libertyville Township High School.
The 1920s saw many changes come to LTHS. “Drops of Ink,” the school newspaper, began publication in 1926.
The National Honor Society was established at Libertyville in 1928; that year also saw the school colors change from maroon and white to black and gold.
