Archives Closed Schools A-C: Continuation School

Other Name: Eastern Departmental School; Continuation School for Girls

Last Address: First Street between Walnut and Chestnut streets, 546 S. First Street

Year Opened: 1912

Year Closed: 1932

This school was originally located in the Eastern Departmental School building at Rubel Avenue, near Broadway.  In its second year it moved to First between Walnut and Chestnut streets to the location later occupied by the Louisville Vocational School and Ahrens.  Emma Grauman, Eastern Departmental School principal, opened it as an independent school with assistance from the Louisville schools and Louisville teachers.  Teachers volunteered their time to educate girls in the workforce who were older than the compulsory school age. The city school district could not devote funding to it originally but took it over in 1914.  In 1918 the name changed to Continuation School for Girls.  Circa 1927 the name returned to merely the Continuation School.  The original purpose of the school was “to further the education of all classes of working girls.”  In 1918 the school also offered a Continuation Class for Nurses.