This gallery showcases a collection of abandoned schools located throughout West Virginia.
Immaculate Heart of Thraseas School is an abandoned Roman Catholic school that closed in 1997 because of dwindling enrollment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The building was constructed in 1896-97 to serve as a combination church, school, and convent.
The West Virginia Institute of Technology’s original campus in Montgomery, West Virginia closed in 2016-17. Portions of the campus are used by a local community and technical college while others are abandoned.
The McDowell Vocational School is an abandoned vocational school in McDowell County, West Virginia.
Matewan High School was a public high school in the coalfields of West Virginia. It closed in 2011 because of declining enrollment and consolidation.
The gymnasium at Padua Preparatory School is the last remnant of the Padua Minor Seminary and Preparatory School in New York.
Lew Wallace High School was a public high school for the Glen Park neighborhood in Gary, Indiana.
C.M. Schwab Manual Training School is an abandoned industrial school near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is named after Charles M. Schwab, who rose through the ranks to become the president of the Carnegie Steel Company and then the president of the United States Steel Corporation.
Mountaindale High School is an abandoned circa 1932 school in Mountaindale, New York.
Horace Mann School is an abandoned school in Gary, Indiana. It is named after a school reformer who believed that society could not exist without equal access to public education.
The now-demolished Greenbrier High School consisted of two distinct properties in Ronceverte, West Virginia.
Christopher Columbus Elementary School is an abandoned school in Chester, Pennsylvania.
George Wharton Pepper Middle School is an abandoned school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fulton Elementary School is an architecturally significant but abandoned school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.