Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School

Grandview Heights Schools purchased the land on the east side of the city in 1924, and opened a school (for First and Second Grades) with a 2-room portable building. Named by its students after the author Robert Louis Stevenson, the school was built in 1926 and initially had 12 rooms. Four rooms were added to each end of the building in 1930, and an annex was built behind it in 1971 to house a kindergarten. In addition to naming the school, Stevenson students spent recess time in the school's first academic year removing stones from the field across Oxley Road to create a playground.

The school received an "A" overall grade in the 2018-19 State of Ohio Department of Education School Report Card. The school serves approximately 360 students in Pre-Kindergarten through Third Grades.  

Robert Louis Stevenson School in 1932. The middle section of the building in this photo is the original 12-room school.  

Students in front of Robert Louis Stevenson School participate in the raising of a flag donated by the Daughters of Veterans of the Civil War in 1928. 

Each year, students wrote, acted, and presented original plays to the community. The first production during the 1927-1928 school year was the operetta Peter Rabbit (shown here). Proceeds from the operetta were used to buy curtains for the school stage. The 1929 production was Robin Hood, followed by Johnny Apple Seed in 1930.

When the Grandview Parent Teacher Association needed money for welfare work in the spring of 1933, Stevenson Elementary students collected 7,000 coat hangers and sold them to local dry cleaners for $4 per 1,000.    

Stevenson Elementary students in the school's Thanksgiving Program in 1992. The cast included Pilgrims, Native Americans, and turkeys in the background with enormous tail feathers. Ms. Nyland and Ms. Abbot coordinated the Thanksgiving Program as well as the famous Stevenson Kindergarten Circus for years.

One of the original decorative architectural features that remains at the top of the original (middle) structure of Stevenson Elementary.