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Lorain County Education

An educated population is one of the foundations for prosperity. They are the economic and social engine of a society. Libraries are at the top of this list as they provided provide the purest ideas of education as a means of lifelong learning. 

Primary schools and middle schools are not listed on this site. Not all public and private high schools run by churches are not photographed at this time but are listed. 

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Libraries in Lorain County

The colleges in Lorain County have libraries. There is a Lorain County Law Library. The Lorain County Historical Society has a library for research. Private and public schools have small libraries of some type. There are small boxes of books across the landscape of Lorain County maintained by private citizens. And now most people walk around with access to the world's largest disorganized library in the world in their hands.

There are two public library systems in Lorain County and six independent libraries. The Lorain Public Library System has six branches located in Avon, Columbia, North Ridgeville, Sheffield Lake, and 2 in Lorain. The Elyria Public Library System has five branches, four in Elyria and one in LaGrange. The independent libraries are located in Amherst, Avon Lake, Grafton, Oberlin, Vermillion, and Wellington.
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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. has been known since its founding for its social activism.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 1837, the first to admit women. It is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world.
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Lorain County Community College

Lorain County Community College is a public community college in the city of Elyria in Lorain County, Ohio, with learning centers in Wellington, North Ridgeville, and Lorain. The institution that was chartered in 1963 after an initiative led by the League of Women Voters, LCCC became the first community college in Ohio to establish a permanent campus.

In addition to associate degrees and certificates, students can earn bachelor's and master's degrees on campus through the college's partnerships with 15 Ohio universities.

Its University Partnership program offers more than 50 bachelor's and master's degrees from 14 Ohio universities to LCCC students through coursework taught on LCCC's campus by university partner instructors.

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Lorain County Joint Vocational School

Lorain County Joint Vocational School is a public vocational school in Oberlin, Ohio. LCJVS primarily serves 13 school districts located in Lorain County, with parts of Erie and Huron counties also covered: Amherst Steele High School, Avon High School, Avon Lake High School, Brookside High School (Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City Schools), Clearview High School, Columbia High School, Elyria High School, Firelands High School, Keystone High School, Midview High School, North Ridgeville High School, Oberlin High School, and Wellington High School

Altogether the school's main campus has an enrollment of about 1,000 high school juniors and seniors, while about 300 students study at satellite locations in their member districts. The affiliated Adult Center also has 4,000 students annually. (no other images at this time)
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Lorain County High Schools

There are fourteen school districts in Lorain County Amherst Exempted Village, Avon Local, Avon Lake City, Clearview Local, Columbia Local, Elyria City Schools, Firelands Local, Keystone Local, Lorain City, Midview Local, North Ridgeville City, Oberlin City, Sheffield-Sheffield Lake, Wellington Exempted Village. There are four private high schools in the county Elyria Catholic High School, First Baptist Christian School, Lake Ridge Academy, and Open Door Christian School.

Only Avon and Avon Lake do not have open enrollment which allows a student to attend school tuition-free in a district other than the district where his or her parents reside.

Some of the townships and the Village of Vermillion are part of school districts located outside of Lorain County.

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