Archives Closed Schools N-P: Oakdale Vocational School

Other Name: Oakdale School, Ellen C. Semple Elementary School

Last Address: 4049 South Fifth Street (at Fairmont Street)

Year Opened: 1946

Year Closed: 1952

The Oakdale school was closed and its student body transferred to the new Ellen C. Semple Elementary.  The building then became a neighborhood community house.  During World War II, it became a war production school.  After the war, it became a vocational school for veterans and youths no longer in school.  It was sold in 1960 to the Calvary Assembly of God.