In 1858, the Board of Education purchased the Grove Academy located on North 7^th Street for $5,000. The upper floor of the south wing was used to house the Steubenville High School. The first graduate in 1860 was a student named Odella J. Patterson.  She would later become a teacher at Steubenville High School, after graduating from Westminster and Monmouth College. The high school remained at the Grove Academy location for 12 years. The high school was moved to the first Grant School in 1870 on the comer of South and Fourth Street. In 1888, thirty new scholars graduated from the high school. Grant School was later rebuilt in 1925 and served as a Junior High School until 1982.