Paris Schools: Celebrating 150 Years of Excellence in Education

The images and content featured in this gallery were part of a Hopewell exhibit in 2011. The Hopewell Museum also has an extensive collection of Paris school yearbooks from the 1920s to the present, with those post-1950 digitally available here on our website.

New Southside school and gymnasium 1940

In 1939, the Southside Elementary School and Gymnasium were completed on South Main Street. Southside served as an elementary school until 1966 when a new elementary school and library opened on the 7th Street property. The expansion of school buildings was necessary to accommodate the increased enrollment due to the integration of the black and white schools that began with the high school in the 1963-1964 academic year.

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