![]() Columbus High School, June 2004-Present
2200 Twenty-Sixth St. Renovation cost $17.7 million |
![]() Columbus High School, 1958-2004 |
![]() Kramer High School, 1925-1958 |
![]() High School Building, 1898-1925 |
![]() High School Building, 1883-1898
2300 Ninth Street, Original Cost: $12,000 |
The first school was started at the Company House in 1860 with 66 pupils. The first school built was in 1861 at 1802-1806 8th St. Seven years later it was sold to the Reorganized Latter Day Saints for a church and was later used as the Jewish Synagogue, by 1866, when the Union Pacific Railroad went through Columbus, 207 pupils were attending schools in Platte County. A school built in 1868 was outgrown. Another school, built in 1874, was also outgrown. In 1876, there were 1,677 pupils in the county.
The facilities expanded each successive year until 1880 when the First Congregational Church Building, just north of 9th St. on the west side of 22nd Ave., was purchased by the school system and converted to a high school for “advanced education.” The 1885 records listed the members of the first graduating class as Harry J. Arnold (a physician); Earnest Slattery (a judge); Addie Ransdale and Mate Wadsworth. In 1887-1888, Columbus High School became accredited by the University of Nebraska. From 1885-1898, the high school was at 2316 9th St. (site of Williams School). The second brick building was erected in 1898 at 2300 16th St. and served as the high school until 1925. This became the junior high when a large, three-story high school was built to the west, 2400 16th St., and was named Kramer High School. The present high school at 2200 26th St. was opened in 1958.