Here's What School Looked Like The Year You Were Born
Let's step back in time.
No matter where, or when, you grew up, we all have one thing in common — memories of school. Whether you grew up with chalkboards or Smart Boards, notepads or iPads, some things about going to school have changed a lot in the past century — and some things are still the same. We took a peek into classrooms going back to 1930, and there have always been attentive students, patient teachers, and young minds ready to absorb information. Then again, some things have changed quite a bit, as you can see through the fashion, technology, and makeup of the student body captured in these photos. Take a look at how schools have changed — and how they haven't — over the past 90 years.
1930
Children gather around a teacher as she writes different animal names on the blackboard.
1931
At a California nursery school, children are seen playing games of make believe.
1932
High school students smile for a class photo at the Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Maryland.
1933
A group of girls enjoy an outdoor painting class while on a school trip to the beach.
1934
A teacher at a London school teaches her pupils how to play cricket.
1935
A teacher in Hampton, Virginia uses a pointer to help her young students study arithmetic.
1936
A group of young choir girls being conducted by their teacher.
1937
Students share desks with their schoolmates at a segregated school in southeast Missouri.
1938
A young boy works at his desk at a school located in a Greenbelt Community in Ohio, which was constructed as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
1939
Children taking turns on the slide at a school playground in Greenhills, Ohio.
1940
Students walk home together after class in Brooklyn, New York.
1941
During World War II an elementary school teacher shows her students how to use a gas mask in case of an attack.
1942
Young immigrants, who came through New York's Ellis Island, at a nursery school learning how to speak several new languages.
1943
Elementary school students place their heads on their desk during the day's "rest period."
1944
Students at the University of Wisconsin play pool in their free time.
1945
Four young students wait on the steps of their schoolhouse in 1945, a time when schools were still segregated in America.
1946
Eighth grade students pay attention at a school in Montpelier, Vermont.
1947
Students and teachers gather together at PS 221 in Brooklyn, New York.
1948
Two students on their first day of school in Harlem, New York, have a little fun behind their teacher's back.
1949
A boy and girl hold hands as they walk to school.
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