Describe your childhood School

[Spinneret]

around the corner from home massive green area

 

[Carol_]

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Built in 1906, large typical urban school. Bricks. Smelled like old socks.

 

[tvguy]

Cookie cutter elementary school for my area as most of them were built in the 1950's with the same floor plan. No AC, radiant floor heat, huge play area. 7 class rooms for grades K-6, about 210 students total, Library, multipurpose room and office.

 

[Lumpy1106]

It was (still is) big and spread out. Student population was around 3k. They built a 2nd school a couple of years after I graduated. Graduating from such a large campus made the transition to college pretty easy.

 

[ronandannette]

K-9 rural school that collected kids for a 20-mile radius; all bussed in. 6 classrooms, a library and a gym; all classes were split 2 or 3 to a room, with one teacher for each. Less than 100 kids in the entire school and usually 3 teachers and the principal (who also taught) and a single admin person who also ran the library. The school yard had swings and a baseball diamond and a hockey rink in winter. It may have more kids now (maybe not, actually, since it's now easier to get to the nearby city if you want your kids educated there), but the last time I drove by, everything looked pretty much exactly the same.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

1950’s elementary K-6. Cafeteria/gymnasium with a stage. Library and a really nice playground.

 

[fla4fun]

1950’s elementary K-6. Cafeteria/gymnasium with a stage. Library and a really nice playground.

Sounds like my elementary school. We called it the cafagymatorium. They built a new elementary school about five years ago and tore down the old building. It was old when I went there, and so hot with no AC.

 

[barkley]

built in 1956, k-6th. when i began attending in '66 there were 2 full classrooms (avg back then about 30 kids each) for each grade (4 classes of k's b/c they only went half days). by the time i hit 5th grade the school had already outgrown itself so they added a couple of modular buildings that held 2 classrooms. no library, 'multipurpose room' served as cafeteria, inside gym, choir and practice place...at one point a corner of it was sectioned off for yet another classroom. 3 playgrounds-k, 1st-3rd, 4th-6th.

that area has exploded in housing since i attended so i assume the school has grown like mad-there were acres of unused property owned by the district on that site.

 

[LSUmiss]

Smallish Catholic school k-8. Loved it! Fantastic playground & yard. Beautiful oak trees. Same school my dad & his siblings attended.

 

[BrianL]

Smallish Catholic school k-8. Loved it! Fantastic playground & yard. Beautiful oak trees. Same school my dad & his siblings attended.

Sounds exactly like mine. It was a small Catholic school down the street. It was basically two hallways, one for grades 1-4 and the other for 5-8, connected by a cafeteria. The Kindergarten classroom was on the 5-8 side, but kind of before the main hall by the gym. The gym was small witht eh very old-school tile floor. That was also where our stage was. Class sizes were only about 30 or so kids, and it was honestly pretty great. There was also very nice church on premesis and we would be ushered into teh church basement during severe weather events.

 

[LSUmiss]

Sounds exactly like mine. It was a small Catholic school down the street. It was basically two hallways, one for grades 1-4 and the other for 5-8, connected by a cafeteria. The Kindergarten classroom was on the 5-8 side, but kind of before the main hall by the gym. The gym was small witht eh very old-school tile floor. That was also where our stage was. Class sizes were only about 30 or so kids, and it was honestly pretty great. There was also very nice church on premesis and we would be ushered into teh church basement during severe weather events.

Ours was a 2 story building with 2 long hallways on each floor. K-3rd downstairs & 4th-8th upstairs. There was no gym. The cafeteria was all purpose for that kinda stuff. And then the church next to that.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I went to a Montessori for elementary. It was in an old house that had been added on to. Preschool and Kindergarten was in one part and 1st-5th was in the front of the house. I was in the very first class of elementary - prior to that, the school had only been a preschool/kindergarten. When I was in 1st and 2nd, all elementary grades were together. When I got to 3rd grade, enrollment was up enough to hire another teacher, so 1/2 were together and 3-5 were together. I had the same teacher all 5 years of elementary with never more than 7 kids in my grade.

 

[amcnj]

A two story brick building built in the 1920’s. It had a separate entrance into the two half- day Kindergarten classrooms. An addition called the science wing (built in response to the space race I believe) was built in the late 1950’s. The gym was at the end of that wing, alongside the parking lot.

No cafeteria, as we walked home for lunch. No AC. A full auditorium with a stage and fixed wooden seats. There was an internal staircase that went from one of the kindergarten rooms up alongside the stage of the auditorium and to a classroom on the second floor.

The basement had the library, and the janitor’s room. If you were lucky you were selected to take the erasers down there at the end of the day to use a vacuum like device to get the chalk out of the erasers.