Greenway High School

Greenway High School is a public secondary school located in Coleraine, Minnesota. It is a part of the Independent School District 316. It was named after John Campbell Greenway, a mining engineer and United States Senator. The high school enrolls students, grade 5 through grade 12, from LaPrairie, Coleraine, Bovey, Taconite, Marble, Calumet, Pengilly, Trout Lake Township, Iron Range Township, Greenway Township, Lawrence Lake Township and Nashwauk Township. History Greenway High School started construction in 1920 and was completed in 1922. The school was named after John Campbell Greenway, an American businessman and senior officer of the US Army Reserve. The new school had a pool, a cafeteria, hospital rooms, administrative rooms, and a motion picture machine room. The auditorium/gymnasium was on the ground floor, and a garage with space for up to 8 buses and area for mechanical work on the buses. The third floor housed classrooms, the school library and was the location for the Itasca State Junior College (later moving location to the nearby town of Grand Rapids in 1966). In the summer of 1955, the elementary school was demolished to make room for the new addition of the school that would include a gymnasium on the ground floor, and a band and choir room in the sub-basement. This was completed in 1957. A new elementary school was constructed across the street and would be connected by an underground tunnel. The new elementary school housed grades Kindergarten-6th grade and was named the VanDyke Elementary School (named after former Superintendent J.A VanDyke). With the nearby middle school (Connor-Jasper Middle School) closing after the end 2011–2012 school year, grades 6-9 were moved to the high school. A new cafeteria was constructed (which could also be used as a gymnasium).