Sebring Ohio Historical Society
126 North 15th Street
Sebring, Ohio 44672
330-938-6920  
Schools of Sebring, Ohio
B.L. Miller School
Located at 506 West Virginia.  Built with a 1967 bond issue and a
donation of $20,000 from
Beatrice L. Miller, founder and head of the
Royal China Company.
F.A. Sebring School
Built in 1949, it replaced the old South Side School.  Located on West
Texas Avenue, it cost $150,000 to build.
Lincoln School
Located on the northwest corner of Indiana Avenue and 17th Street.  Built
for $20,000 in 1909 as a high school until McKinley was built.  Currently
an apartment complex.
Sebring McKinley High School
Original section built in 1914 as an elementary school.  Became a high school in 1924.  The
building had a number of expansions and renovations over the years. A bond issue in 1998
removed part of the structure and kept others, but added much more space to the building.
The original sports teams were called the Potters, later becoming the
Trojans. Football games
were held at the racetrack, where Akenhead Field now stands.  This was where horses and cars
also raced.  The 1935 team claimed the first Tri-County league championship.
Ohio Avenue School
Constructed in 1901 at a cost of $6,000. A one room three-year high
school, it enrolled 10 students in the first year.  Building torn down in the
late 1930's. Before this school was built, classes were held in an old barn
over the Gray farm.
First Graduating Class Ohio Avenue School, 1904
Earl McIntosh
Gertrude Beggs, Gladys Lamborne Barkley, Ella B. Larkins
Many class photos
are available at the Strand Museum.
Come See!
First Schools

The original plan for Sebring Schools was a public system.  However, before that could
be built, a private school for the education of the children of the founders was conducted
in a two room building at the corner of Maryland Avenue and 15th street.  The teacher
was Laura Crew Talbott of Damascus.  Later, a barn was hauled into the center of town,
which served alternately as a church and a school in 1900.  It was on the southwest
corner of Oregon Avenue and 15th Street.  Miss Anna Begue was the teacher.  
Then came the one room structure at the southwest corner of Oregon Avenue and 15th
street, which served grades one to eight.  The instructor was Anna Begue.  The Ohio
Avenue building was then built a year later, at a cost of $6,999.  It housed a three year
high school with an enrollment of ten.  Professor Marshall Cox doubled in the role of
principal and only high school teacher.  Grade school teachers were Carrie Miller,
Mabel Gaunt and Grace Sweinhart.
The first president of the Sebring Board of Education, Walter Crewson, remembers a
group of lads placing Limburger cheese on the radiator, and how he gave them a dressing
down and a day off school while the building was aired.  The culprits were Fred Shaffer,
Earl Windle, and Don Albright.