Editing Columbus, Ohio (section)

===Primary and secondary schools===
[[File:IndianolaSchool.JPG|thumb|[[Graham Elementary and Middle School|Indianola Junior High School]] was the first middle school in the U.S.]]
[[Columbus City Schools]] (CCS) is the largest district in Ohio, with 55,000 pupils.<ref>{{cite web|title = Columbus City Schools – Employment Website|publisher = Columbus City Schools|url = http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/applications/employment.nsf/pages/Main?opendocument|access-date = September 25, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071010025241/http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/applications/employment.nsf/pages/Main?opendocument|archive-date = October 10, 2007|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}}</ref> CCS operates 142 elementary, [[middle school|middle]] and high schools, including a number of [[magnet school]]s (which are referred to as [[alternative school]]s within the school system).

The suburbs operate their own districts, typically serving students in one or more townships, with districts sometimes crossing municipal boundaries. The [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus]] also operates several [[parochial school|parochial elementary and high schools]]. The area's second-largest school district is [[South-Western City School District (Franklin County, Ohio)|South-Western City Schools]], which encompasses southwestern Franklin County, including a slice of Columbus itself. Other portions of Columbus are zoned to the [[Dublin City School District (Ohio)|Dublin]], [[Hilliard City School District|Hilliard]], [[New Albany-Plain Local School District|New Albany-Plain]], [[Westerville City School District|Westerville]] and [[Worthington City School District|Worthington]] school districts.

There are also several private schools in the area, such as St. Paul's Lutheran School, a K-8 Christian school of the [[Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod]] in Columbus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stpaulcares.org/page/140002424/140048061/Get-to-Know-St-Pauls|title=Get to Know St. Paul's|access-date=October 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002165519/http://www.stpaulcares.org/page/140002424/140048061/Get-to-Know-St-Pauls|archive-date=October 2, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Some sources determine that the first kindergarten in the United States was established here by Louisa Frankenberg, a former student of [[Friedrich Fröbel]].<ref name="zuahxa"/> Frankenberg immigrated to the city in 1838 and opened her kindergarten in the German Village neighborhood in that year. The school did not work out, so she returned to Germany in 1840. In 1858, Frankenberg returned to Columbus and established another early kindergarten in the city. Frankenberg is often overlooked, with [[Margarethe Schurz]] instead given credit for her "[[First Kindergarten]]" she operated for two years.<ref name="kindergarten">{{cite book|last1=Lascarides|first1=V. Celia|last2=Hinitz|first2=Blythe F.|title=History of Early Childhood Education|publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfA4Hd18cgEC|date=2011|isbn=978-1136705533|access-date=May 3, 2020|archive-date=September 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920170449/https://books.google.com/books?id=BfA4Hd18cgEC|url-status=live}}</ref>

In addition, Indianola Junior High School (now the [[Graham Elementary and Middle School]]) became the nation's first [[junior high school]] in 1909, helping to bridge the difficult transition from elementary to high school at a time when only 48% of students continued their education after the [[ninth grade]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2691 |title=Ohio History Central |publisher=Ohio History Central |access-date=March 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120134930/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2691 |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>