{"id":16,"date":"2011-06-01T13:56:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westwordsconsulting.com\/whittier\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2017-08-18T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:06:27","slug":"school-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/information\/school-history\/","title":{"rendered":"School History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2011\/06\/Whittier-Bldg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3800 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2011\/06\/Whittier-Bldg.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Whittier Elmentary\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Construction of Whittier Elementary School began on August 25, 1927. Total cost of the building was around $12,500. At that time, the new school was considered one of the most modern structures on the expanding southwest side of Kenosha. The original building was a two-room school with a community kitchen and lunch area, which also doubled as classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest records dating back to July of 1931 indicate that although the original work was contracted out, much of the finish work, was done by community volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>On December 19, 1932, Whittier School was damaged by fire. Over $13,000 in insurance claims was collected to repair the building and its furnishings.<\/p>\n<p>Four additions in 1952, 1959, 1965, and 1991, increased Whittier School to its present size. The latest 2-story, 18-classroom addition, $2.67 million addition authorized by the Board of Education in 1990 opened to students in the fall of 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest enrollment records from the 1940s indicated that about 60 students attended classes in grades kindergarten through eight. The school later switched to a kindergarten through sixth grade format to match other schools in the district. Whittier currently houses Pre-K through grade 5 students.<\/p>\n<p>Whittier Elementary School was named in honor of the distinguished poet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Greenleaf_Whittier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Greenleaf Whittier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of Whittier Elementary School began on August 25, 1927. Total cost of the building was around $12,500. At that time, the new school was considered one of the most [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13459,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/whittier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}