Category: Irvington History

Irvington Schools of the Past

Irvington currently has a high school, 2 middle schools and 7 schools covering Pre-K through grade 5. There are several schools that no longer exist or have been converted to a different school.

Clinton School
Clinton Avenue Elementary School was located on Clinton Ave. near the intersection with Springfield Ave. It had earlier been called Central School.
Clinton Avenue Elementary School closed in 1941. and was then used as the Community Building.
The Irvington Hotel was at the corner of Clinton and Springfield Ave. It existed from 1890-1924. The Clinton Ave school is to the right with a rather fancy center tower.
clinton springfield
The corner now – the school location is now the Irvington Senior Apartments. That big fancy home still stands but is hidden behind stores.
demolished
The Central/Clinton/Community building, which had been built in 1870, was closed in 1972 and demolished in 1974.
Coit St School
Coit Street School was located on Coit St. near Woolsey St. It opened in 1903 and had 4 rooms for 4 grades.
Listed on two postcards as “School No. 1” this building looks the same as Clinton Ave. School. I couldn’t find any additional information, so perhaps it is the same building, or they built two identical buildings.
school no. 1
School No. 1 – This wider view shows a side street that wouldn’t make this the Clinton Ave. building, so School No. 1 must have been somewhere else in town.
Irvington Tech
Popularly known as Irvington Tech, the school was at the corner of University Place and Myrtle Ave. next to Myrtle Ave. Junior High School. This is a page from the school’s “Technique” yearbook. Myrtle Ave. JHS is now University Middle School.
The Tech building is now University Elementary School.
Back view of the school looking down Columbia Ave.
Looking south on Myrtle Ave.

SOURCES INCLUDE

Annual Report of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction of New Jersey, 1902