Historic Timeline Greece Schools

1823 Greece is divided into eight common  school districts.
1830  The number of one room school districts has increased to ten wholly and three partly in Greece. A single teacher taught all grades in each school. There were no high schools. Locally collected school taxes were matched by funds from the Town of Greece and Monroe county. the number of pupils was 593.
1864 School District #12 opens on Elmgrove Rd.
1878 Suburban street Directory lists only Landowners
1890 A high school is chartered in Charlotte which served District no. 4 and other surrounding areas.
1899  Students in west Greece were sent to Parma High School.
1902 Students in Southwest Greece were sent to Spencerport High School.
1915 Between 1915 and 1928 The City of Rochester unilaterally annexed large portions of eastern and southern Greece, including Charlotte and the Lake Avenue Corridor. These annexations resulted in Greece losing a significant amount of its people, land, and property valuation and is the creation of " Free Tuition Districts" made up of the unannexed  portions of partially annexed common school districts.
1916 Kodak Union High School was planned. Prior to its completion the area was annexed by the City of Rochester and the school came to known as John Marshall. The school served students from Greece District #1 and adjoining areas.
1919 Growth east of Mt. Read Blvd and on Ridge Rd brought overcrowding to District #3 and #16.
1923 School district #12 builds a two-classroom school house at 581 Elmgrove Rd.
1928  Greece Central School District #1 is formed. The first central school district in Monroe County and the 13th in the state. Districts 3,11,  and 16 combine and start W. N. Britton school on Hoover Rd. after W. N. Britton had donated 5 acres for the school.
1929 Hoover School opens at a cost of $225,000. The third floor is added in 1931.
1930 Cornerstone for  new District #5 school at 1790 Latta Rd at the northwest corner of Mt. Read Blvd. Opens in 1931.
1930 The suburban directory lists school districts:

1944 District #9 closes after the school year.
         Districts #7 goes to Hilton  # 13 phased out going to Spencerport.
1947- 1955 Common Districts annexed in Western and southwestern Greece were annexed to Hilton and Spencerport. The remaining common districts were annexed to Greece. This brought Barnard, Britton and Paddy Hill into Greece School district #1. Their were 1700 students in 1950. In 1955 their were 3200 pupils. 1950 Britton Rd school opens at Dewey Ave and Britton Rd.
1954 District # 6 goes to Hilton 
1955 Old District #6 property shows the new owner as Earl Cote
1956 Paddy Hill school opens up at Latta & Mt. Read Blvd. School Districts  #2 (#17)  and  #5  send their students to the new school.
Districts # 2(#17),#5 and # 15 were all Centralized.
Additions were made at West Ridge, Hoover, and Britton Rd. schools.
1957 Ninth graders based at Hoover (W.N. Britton school) city district couldn't take more high school students for lack of space. Greece had 4.450 students.
1958 Longridge and Craig Hill  schools open (elementary)
1959 The first High School opens in Greece. Greece Olympia H.S. opens at a cost of $3,530,000 with Myron White, Principal.
1961 English Village  and Autumn Lane Schools open New addition to Britton.
1962 Additions to Barnard and Hoover Dr.
1963 Lakeshore Elementary and Arcadia High School open Addition to Britton rd is completed.         
1964  Buckman Heights  School opens
1965 Brookside Elementary School opens
1966 Parklands Elementary School opens
1967 Holmes Road School opens
1968 Kirk Road School opens
1969 Greece Athena Jr. Sr. High School opens
1971 Greece Student population peaked at 13,448 and then declined until 1976.
1976 Under New York State legislation enacted in 1975 the law "Free School Districts " were annexed to Greece bringing student enrollment to 13,301 nearly matching the 1971 peak. This unprecedented legislation provided for the property owners in the "free districts" to gradually assume full taxation over a five year period during this phase - in ,the state reimbursed Greece for that portion of tax not yet paid by these property owners.
1977 Student enrollment continue to decline until the 1980's.
1981 Britton Rd. Jr. High closes and a Wegman's store is built.
       Cardinal Mooney Senior High( A Parochial school is closed)
1982 West Ridge closes and is used for continuing education and a other community uses.
1990  Greece Apollo Middle School opens grade six to eight (formally Cardinal Mooney High School). West Ridge  School opens as K-5 School of choice.
1993 Greece Odyssey Jr. Sr. High Schools opens (formally Hoover Dr) as a school of choice. six through twelve.
        A new Jr. High school Addition is added to Greece Arcadia High School that opens.
        Pine Brook Elementary School opens on English Rd. K-5 as a school of choice.
2001 Greece voters approve a $119.5 Million capital project for improving schools. The largest project is at Longridge School.  A k-2 building which will become a k-5 building. It will take the students currently housed at Barnard school. The students from Barnard 2nd grade will start attending Longridge in the fall 2002 and the remainder will transition by Christmas 2002 or sooner. The building at Barnard will then be used as as offices or   a teacher center. Fall of 2002 English is adding six classrooms, a multipurpose room and other renovation. Parkland is adding a multipurpose room a storage room with other renovations. Autumn Lane is adding six classrooms, a multipurpose room  and other renovations.

End of 2002 Lakeshore will have added four classrooms and multipurpose room with other renovations. Longridge is adding 28 classrooms, a multipurpose room, gym and instructional music room, add to existing library main office, Kitchen and cafeteria. Brookside added two classrooms and a multipurpose room. Summer 2003 will see Odyssey Middle/High add a music suite and install two elevators, renovate the gym, auditorium, science and vocational educational classrooms. The Ground Braking occured around June 11, 2003. Barnard will get a new gym floor. Buckman Heights will get a new library and multipurpose room with other renovations to entrance and office. Craig Hill is adding six new classrooms, storage area.

End of 2003 Athena Middle/Athena High will receive a all- weather track, auditorium, stage to be used by both schools as well as an addition of practice rooms for choral and instrumental groups. West Ridge is adding two classrooms, a multipurpose room. Holmes Road is adding a multipurpose room. Fall of 2004 Pine Brook will have two additional classrooms. At the end of 2004 an upgrade district wide for the phone and computer technology. Apollo Middle will renovate science and vocational education classrooms and put  in a all-weather track. Arcadia Middle/Arcadia High will add seven classrooms and an elevator and all-weather track. Kirk Road will add four classrooms and multipurpose room. Olympia will add five classrooms, new library and all-weather track with renovations to science rooms. Paddy Hill will add four classrooms, multipurpose and school storage area with office and entrance renovations.