Canisteo Schools History:
SCHOOLS: Canisteo's first school was a one-room school on Greenwood Street, across from the present Baptist Church. It was in existence by 1857. There were a variety of one-room schools around the township. The oldest school building, School No. 1 on the 1873 Atlas map, also called Canisteo Graded School and Canisteo Union School, was a wooden frame building at 22 Fifth Street. It began as what would be called today an elementary school. There were five classrooms, and 11th grade the highest. After its abandonment in 1914 when the Greenwood Street Elementary School was built, it became Strait's Mill, then a feed store, before being torn down about 1952 and replaced by a bus garage. Adjacent to it to the south, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, is the Rotary Field, which remained the venue for school sports until the 1990s, when new facilities were built on Purdy Creek Road.
Canisteo Academy was the second high school, at the time called academies, in Steuben County (the first was the long-vanished Addison Academy). It came into legal existence in 1868, and obtained funding to build a brick building on Greenwood Street, which opened in 1871. Canisteo Academy was founded by Rev. Lewis F. Laine (1806–1891). "It had a very creditable observatory, equipped with a large revolving telescope—the only one in the county." The New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (1896-1916) crossed Academy St., where it stopped at a platform for student and teacher use. Students came from as far as Pennsylvania, at least 25 miles (40 km). Some stayed during the week in boarding houses .
An elementary school was built in 1914 just to the south of the Academy, replacing the 5th Street building. In 1937, with consolidation of the town schools, the Academy building was demolished, as was the Elementary School with the exception of the heating plant, in the rear. A new Canisteo Central School was constructed, attaching to the preserved heating plant portion of the Elementary School, constructing a new front and main entrance facing Greenwood Street, connecting with the portion of the building occupying the Academy site. This is today (2019) the Canisteo–Greenwood High School. An addition was constructed in 1949, containing a cafeteria, music rooms, and classrooms. In 1959 a new elementary school was constructed further south, at 120 Greenwood Street, including a competition swimming pool. In the vote authorizing the construction, the swimming pool was on the ballot separately, but both passed, the pool by a smaller margin. At present the building houses both the Elementary and a Middle School. In 2004 the Canisteo schools merged with those of Greenwood to form the Canisteo-Greenwood School District. Canisteo-Greenwood in 2017 is the only school in Steuben County that has an orchestra as well as a band. The only other orchestra, at Corning Northside in the much larger city of Corning, closed about 1990. Source:
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