Primary and Grammar Schools

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Address: (Current Legacy Center Location) 123 N Center St. Lehi, UT

• Located where the Legacy Center is today

• The Primary School had eight rooms and was dedicated on 27 January 1906.

• It cost $20,000 to build.

• This was an upper-grade level school

• The old jail was torn down to build a new elementary school which was called the Grammar School. It also had eight rooms.

• This school started in the fall of 1910.

• The schools were used until 1952.

• A fire demolished the buildings and they were dismantled.

In 1906, due to overcrowding, the Primary School was built. Located where the Lehi Legacy Center stands today at 200 North and Center Street, the new Primary School faced Center Street and accommodated 400 students. Just three years later in 1909, another elementary named the Grammar School opened just west of the Primary School and faced 200 North. The two buildings provided 16 classrooms and together could host 765 students. Still, on the first day of school in 1910, 40 students had to be turned away until other temporary locations could be acquired. When Lehi Elementary, 765 N. Center St., opened in 1952, the Primary and Grammar schools were closed. The Grammar School burned down in 1954, and the Primary School was razed in 1956.