By 1896 Circle:City not only had a theatre, an opera house, and a library, it also had a school and a city-trained teacher from the University of Chicago, Anna Fulcomer.
Fulcomer arrived in the fall of 1896. She reported that she opened school in October "despite the fact that for two weeks the carpenter worked among us, planing benches and doors, putting in a partition, and, of course, driving nails." Fulcomer found herself teaching 36 white, native, and Inuit pupils (three times the number she had expected) ranging in age from 5 to 30. The students sat three to a seat, using slates and pencils lent by the local Anglican minister.
