Girls High School (first) opens.

It is located on the second floor of the Bowdoin School on Derne Street. Ebenezer Bailey is the first headmaster. The first public high school for girls in the U.S., it closes in June 1828 for financial reasons, with Mayor Josiah Quincy declaring, “No city could stand the expense” (an estimated at $11/student/year. Quincy also objects that “schools requiring high qualifications as the condition of admission are essentially schools for the benefit comparatively of the very few” and that many wealthy parents, who could afford to send their girls to private school, were sending them to this free, public school. Another high school for girls (second) opens in 1852.*