Junior High and Middle Schools

This is Not a comprehensive research list of Allen County schools. Most information is collected from photos posted and discussions appearing on social media. Eventually web sites, addresses and phone numbers will be added as time permits. Because there are so many schools a separate page exists for Elementary, Middle and High Schools.

Adams Junior High School

This are only two Adams Junior High School items on Internet Archive.

Blackhawk Christian School

1978 yearbook

Blackhawk Middle School

1973 yearbook

November 10, 2020 post by Fort Wayne Community Schools on Facebook:

Blackhawk Middle School had a surprise visitor today. — in Fort Wayne. 

Fairfield Junior High School

1963 yearbook

Franklin Junior High School

 

  1. Franklin Junior High School 1962 49 photos
  2. Franklin Junior High School 1967 63 photos and posted again April 8, 2017 with 64 photos
  3. Franklin Junior High School 1970 64 photos
  4. Franklin Junior High School 1971 65 photos
  5. Fort Wayne Parks department announces Franklin School Park pavilion donor by Kevin Kilbane published March 10, 2017 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.
  6. Photos of Franklin School Park posted and discussed April 22, 2017 and April 26, 2017 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.
  7. Fort Wayne’s Franklin School Park dedication a culmination of neighborhoods, government collaboration with photos by Kevin Kilbane published December 1, 2017 on The News-Sentinel newspaper.
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Jefferson Middle School

March 7, 2019 post by FWCS, Fort Wayne Community Schools on Facebook;

Jefferson Middle School under construction in 1967. #TBT

Also on Twitter.

July 28, 2016 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:

For "Throwback Thursday" we dug this out of The Ol' Scrapbook! This is from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette dated May 10, 1966 after Fort Wayne Community Schools Board approved the plan for Jefferson Junior High School on the Wheelock Road. By the way.....Hofer and Davis, Inc. did the Boundary and Topographic Surveys for FWCS!

  1. Jefferson Junior High School 1970-71 74 photos
  2. Jefferson Junior High School 1971-72 77 photos

Geyer, Ben F. Middle School

Named for Benjamin Franklin Geyer was changed to Towles Intermediate School in 2006. Jeff Towles was a school board president and also a physician. As a surgeon he helped save the life of civil rights activist Vernon Jordan who was shot in Fort Wayne in 1980. Older photo posted March 29, 2018 by FWCS, Fort Wayne Community Schoolson Twitter. Discussed April 23, 2024 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.

Kekionga Middle School

1961 yearbook

Lakeside Middle School

A photo with a short article stating: Jenness Clark and Ronald Bennett, ninth-grade students at Lakeside Junior High School, stand with a bell that once called students to class at the Lakeside (elementary) School, which they had attended. The elementary school was being demolished, but the bell was removed Sept. 27, 1960, and taken to the junior high. A caption with the photo indicated the bell would not ring again. opied from `Sept. 27, 1960: A day in photos of Fort Wayne by Corey McMaken posted August 25, 2022 in the History Journal features and stories of historical interest from the archives of The Journal Gazette.

April 4, 2019 post by Fort Wayne Community Schools on Facebook and Twitter:

Students leaving Lakeside Junior High a few decades ago. The school - now Lakeside Middle School - opened in 1959. #TBT

  1. Lakeside Junior High School 1961 50 photos
  2. Lakeside Junior High School 1965 64 photos
  3. Lakeside Junior High School 1966 58 photos
  4. Lakeside Junior High School 1970 65 photos
  5. Lakeside Junior High School 1975 64 photos
  6. Lakeside Junior High School 1979 43 photos

Chester T. Lane Middle School

Axe and shield by Chester T. Lane Junior High School (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Publication date 1966, on Archive.org

Named for Chester T. Lane principal of the Fort Wayne High School, 1879-1915. Webpage: www.fwcs.k12.in.us/Lane. Lane Middle School under construction in the early 1960s. The school opened in 1965.

April 11, 2019 post by Fort Wayne Community Schools on Facebook and Twitter.

Lane Middle School under construction in the early 1960s. The school opened in 1965. #TBT 

March 12, 2015 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:

Any of you go or have kids that went to Lane Junior High? H & D provided the boundary and topo surveys for Fort Wayne Community Schools in 1963. A.K. Hofer credited Chester T. Lane (principal of Fort Wayne High School for 40 years) as the "most influential" teacher he owed the most in Griswolds 1926 book "Builders of Greater Fort Wayne"

November 10, 2016 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:

Back on March 12, 2015 we shared the February 26, 1964 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette architect's sketch of the proposed Chester T. Lane Junior High School for "Throwback Thursday". We received this letter recently from Ken Cole's widow (Ken was one of the architects working on the school) that A.K. Hofer penned in response to Principal Ralph McClain's invitation to particpate in the school dedication as a memorial to Mr. Lane. A.K. credited Mr. Lane as being "his most influential teacher" in Bert J. Griswold's 1926 book "BUILDERS OF GREATER FORT WAYNE". We think this letter is a testament of A.K. Hofer's regard of Mister Chester T. Lane and we thank Mrs. Cole for sending it.

November 10, 2022 share on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook: The school Dedication was on Sunday March 28th, 1965, so my grandfather’s letter was prior.

  1. Axe and Shield yearbooks starting in 1966-1984 at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indianaand same yearbooks online at Internet Archive.
  2. Chester T. Lane Junior High School 1968 67 photos at the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook
  3. Chester T. Lane Junior High School 1971 72 photos at the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook
  4. Chester T. Lane Junior High School 1985 37 photos at the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook

Heritage Junior High School

Heritage Junior/Senior High School (Monroeville, Ind.) on Archive.org.

Memorial Park Middle School

May 23, 2019 post by Fort Wayne Community Schools on Facebook and Twitter:

Memorial Park Middle School under construction in August 1966. #TBT

Miami Middle School

May 30, 2019 post Fort Wayne Community Schools on Facebook and Twitter:

The entrance of Miami Middle School. The school opened in 1976 with Max Lake as its first principal. #TBT

Miami Junior High School 1972 yearbook with 65 photos on the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook.

Northwood Middle School

  1. Northwood Junior High School 1963 67 photos
  2. Northwood Junior High School 1976 63 photos

Portage Middle School

Taylor Street

  1. Photo posted November 30, 2017 on Twitter by FWCS, Fort Wayne Community Schools
  2. Portage Junior High School 1965 59 photos
  3. Portage Middle School 1971 58 photos - March 10, 2015 post and repeated October 21, 2015 post
  4. Before the school was built in 1960 the Sweet Celery Farm was located on the swampy land from a January 19, 2024 post on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. One Comment showed the photo George Sweet celery farm, Taylor Street, Fort Wayne, IN, 1916 from the Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Libraryin response to another Comment that the Sweet family home is across from the school. Another Comment included the obituary for Frank Click a Ft. Wayne celery farm worker electrocuted in 1951 in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City for a horrific slaying in 1944 of a South Side High School senior. The crime is discussed in the lengthy February 5, 1994 story Killer in the rain by Richard Battin in the Summit City History Notes in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

Shawnee Middle School

  1. Shawnee Junior High School 1972 50 photos
  2. Shawnee Junior High School 1975 53 photos
  3. Shawnee Junior High School 1980 33 photos

Village Woods Junior High School

1966 yearbook at Archive.org. Many more Norseman at the The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Weisser Park Junior High School

  1. 1965 yearbook
  2. 1970 yearbook58 photos
  3. Photo of Weisser Park Arts Magnet School in the summer of 1977 posted June 7, 2018 on Twitter by FWCS, Fort Wayne Community Schools.

Woodside Middle School

Woodside Middle School 1978 32 photos

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Page updated: July 26, 2024