East Technical High School (Cleveland, Ohio)

 vocational school, high school, school yard

A comprehensive coeducational high school, the first public trade school in the Greater Cleveland area. The new enterprise was one of only five technical high schools in the country when it opened as Technical High School on Oct, 5, 1908 in a brick building with Gothic facade at 2470 E. 55th St.

East Tech, as it was called after 1910, was originally coeducational. It became an all-male school in 1929 when female pupils were transferred to John Hay High School, and it became coeducational again in 1952 when Central High School and East Tech were merged. The school became a leader in interscholastic athletics, winning city championships in football (1915-23); innumerable Senate, city, sectional, state, district, and regional championships in basketball (1950s); and over 13 state championships in track, particularly during the days when future Olympic stars Jesse Owens, Dave Albritton, and Harrison Dillard attended.

Following dedication of a new building across the street at 2439 E. 55th St. on 11-12 Oct. 1972, the original building was demolished.

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