The original PHS Library, now the Davis conference room
Princeton High School
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The first ninth grade in Princeton was conducted in 1898. The class of 1902 was the first graduating class of Princeton High School. However, the building located on Moore Street in Princeton Borough was not built until 1929. An addition was started in 1955 on land belonging to the Township.
The first student of African-American descent attended Princeton High in 1915. This only happened after a threat of legal action.
Princeton High School was operated by the Princeton Borough Board of Education until the Borough and Township Board of Educations regionalized in 1966. Before 1966, Princeton Township's Board of Education paid the Borough Board of Education tuition in order for its students to attend PHS.
In 1902, Plainsboro and West Windsor started sending their students to PHS. Rocky Hill signed an agreement in 1910 to do the same. (Plainsboro and Rocky Hill also sent their students attending grades six through eight to Princeton Borough Schools). The students from these municipalities continued to attend Princeton Borough schools through at least 1965.
High school-aged students living in Franklin Township, Lawrence Township, South Brunswick Township, Hopewell Borough and Montogomery Township also attended PHS sometime between 1902 and 1965.
The original PHS Library, now the Davis conference room
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