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486:(130 W. Exchange St.) - named for M. Otis Hower (1858-1916), an Akron manufacturing leader. APS opened trade classes in Perkins Elementary in 1927 and renamed the building for Hower. It housed the Central-Hower student body after their merger in 1970 until a new building was completed in 1975; it was demolished in 1978.
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498:(1055 East Ave.) established in 1911 as Akron's second high school; closed at the end of the 1979–80 school year. Building was reopened in 1994 as an intermediate visual and performing arts school, renamed George C. Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts.
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287:Hyre CLC
145:Teachers
29:Location
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734:33,230
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725:49,835
722:55,000
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