Our feature OKI Wanna Know is your chance to ask the questions: Who, what, when, why, and how? This time we check to see if a local high school was the first of its kind in the entire country, with WVXU's Bill Rinehart.

Brynn Thomas is a teacher at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati. Her students were doing research on Gaines High School for the Walnut Hills Historical Society.

"Windsor, in particular came across a discrepancy between Gaines being the oldest public Black high school in the state of Ohio, and then finding a school in Washington, D.C. — Dunbar, which has the claim to fame as being the oldest Black high school in the country," she says. "And their starting date is after Gaines. Which is the oldest?"

The Windsor she mentioned is student Windsor Holman

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