Cincinnati Woodward High School
| Woodward Career Technical High School | |
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| Address | |
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7005 Reading Road Bond Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton County 45237 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°11′17″N 84°27′57″W / 39.18806°N 84.46583°WCoordinates: 39°11′17″N 84°27′57″W / 39.18806°N 84.46583°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public, Coeducational high school |
| Motto | Connecting Classrooms to Colleges & Careers |
| Superintendent | Mary Ronan |
| Principal | Shauna Murphy |
| Faculty | 71 |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Color(s) | Blue and white |
| Athletics conference | Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Athletic Director | Jamal Walker |
| Website | School website |
Woodward Career Technical High School is a public high school located in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Cincinnati Public School District. It was founded as one of the first public schools in the United States in 1826.
Woodward was one of the first public schools in the country. The land for the original school was donated by William Woodward and his wife Abigail Cutter in 1826 to provide free education for poor children who could not afford private schooling. Their remains are buried on school grounds in the Over-the-Rhine area of Cincinnati (and it is a fixture of student lore that Abigail's ghost haunts the building). The Woodward Free Grammar School opened on the site in 1831 and was the first free public school in the city. The original two-story school building was replaced in 1855. On the day after his election, President Elect William Howard Taft, who graduated from Woodward High School in 1874, laid the cornerstone of a third building, which opened to students in 1910 (39°6′38″N 84°30′36″W / 39.11056°N 84.51000°W).
The site is also linked to the Underground Railroad. William Woodward built a home on the site in 1832, where Levi Coffin and his wife, Catharine, lived from 1856 to 1863. Coffin (known as "The President of the Underground Railroad"), sheltered over one hundred fugitive slaves each year on their way to freedom in Canada. The home was first occupied by Henry Rucher, an early principal and math teacher at the Woodward school, and it was commonly known as the Rucher House. It later served as the Good Samaritan Hospital (still in operation at its later Clifton Heights location). In 1865 it became St. Luke's Hospital, where disabled Civil War soldiers were treated. It was replaced by residential homes in 1874, which were demolished to clear ground for the new Woodward school building in 1907.
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