Archives Closed Schools Q-S: Ridgewood School

Other Name: Ormsby Village School, Lynnwood

Last Address: LaGrange Road, Lyndon

Year Opened: 1929

Year Closed: 1961 (uncertain)

Ridgewood was a segregated home for black children on the grounds of a home for white children at Ormsby Village.  A segregated school was operated from 1929 to the early 1960's.  The Ridgewood facilities were merged into the Ormsby Village home and school with their integration in the early 1960's.  In 1968 the home became the Ormsby Village Treatment Center for delinquent children only.  The home originally operated its own school but educational services were later provided by JCPS.  The Ridgewood buildings were leased to the state of Kentucky and were renamed Lynnwood.  The Ormsby Village and Ridgewood properties were developed as the Hurstbourne Green office park in the late 1980s and all the institutional buildings were razed.