North High School
Class of 1966

• 1834 Rev. J.D. Stevens opens the first school in Minneapolis on the shores of Lake Harriet with four pupils.
• 1849 The first private school opens in St. Anthony (which merged with Minneapolis in 1872).
• 1851-1852 Mary Schofield opens a school on the west side of the Mississippi River.
• 1857 Minneapolis' first high school, Central Union (also known as Union Washington), opens.
• 1863 Central Union High School burns to the ground.
• 1867 East Side (East) High School opens.
• 1873 Central High opens.
• 1878 The State Legislature merges St. Anthony and Minneapolis School Boards into Minneapolis Board of Education.
• 1889 Kenwood Elementary School opens
• 1891 North Side High School opens.
• 1892 South Side High School opens.
• 1898 Sidney Pratt Elementary School opens.
• 1908 University High opens on campus of University of Minnesota as a preparatory lab for the School of Education
• 1909 West Side High School opens.
• 1916 Miller Vocational High opens.
• 1922 Thomas Alva Edison High School opens
• 1922 Theodore Roosevelt High School opens.
• 1924 East Side High closed.
• 1924 Marshall High opens.
• 1925 Washburn High School opens.
• 1940 Patrick Henry Junior High becomes Patrick Henry High School.
• 1940 Southwest High opens.
• 1940 Minneapolis Board of Education drops the word "Side" from the title of the all Minneapolis High Schools.
• 1967 Marshall & University High Schools merge.
• 1976 Miller Vocational High closed.
• 1982 Central High closed.
• 1982 Marshall-University High closed.
• 1982 West High School closed.