This news article will explain the history behind West Avenue Junior High School in Waco, Texas. Waco Senior High School is of Waco’s lesser known but well remembered schools.
Waco Senior High School was established as a senior high school by Waco Public Schools (Waco ISD) sometime around 1925. The school building was 3 stories in height and had a basement below ground. E. T. Genheimer was the principal of Waco Senior High School.
The first assembly at Waco Senior High School was conducted in 1927. Mike H Thomas of Dallas was the guest of honor and speaker of the evening. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58640069/)
First assembly of the year was held at Waco senior high school Thursday morning, with Principal E. T. Genheimer addressing the boys’ assembly in the gymnasium, and Miss Annie Forsgard speaking to the girls. Superintendent B B Cobb spoke briefly to both audiences. The first meeting of the Fellowship Men's club of the Central Presbyterian church will be a banquet given for the club members and their wives and friends this evening at seven o’clock. Mike H Thomas of Dallas is to be the guest of honor and speaker of the evening, and Mrs. Billie Smith will be the toastmistress.
However problems with overcrowding during the first year of operating had emerged. Waco Senior High School was already overcrowded in 1927. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/59636109/)
[An additional building is the only relief for the congested situation at the Waco senior high school, B. B. Cobb, city school superintendent, declared yesterday in discussing the problem of caring for the alarming increase in enrollment this year. “I expect 1,600 students to be enrolled by Christmas,” he declared.]
In 1927, enrollment swelled again at the Waco Senior High School with the registration of old students and members of the faculty as new students registered in unusually large numbers. Waco Senior High School had an increased attendance over the previous year. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/59636110/)
“Enrollment swelled again at the Waco Senior High School with the registration of old students, members of the faculty stated yesterday afternoon. Monday new students registered in unusually large numbers and with number of old students the total enrollment is expected to pass all previous marks, it was thought. Total number of enrollment will be announced Thursday.”
A bid was advertised for the heating and plumbing for an addition to the Waco Senior High School in the Waco News-Tribune on Saturday, October 27, 1928. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58625258/)
Bids for construction of a 22-room addition at the Waco Senior High School were set in motion on the date of Thursday, November 8, 1928. The bids were set by the school board. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58625955/)
Waco Senior High School was for some time in dire extremities for adequate housing facilities, was receiving first attention subsequent to necessary provision of funds by the end of 1928. Work on two of the larger units improvement already began. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58628768/)
3 stories and a basement on both sides of the wing are being built, with 2 stories in the middle of Waco Senior High School in early February 1929. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58624574/)
A three-story building with a basement annex was added to the Waco Senior High School building by J. S. Harrison Construction company on the date of June 6, 1929 which was during the summer of 1929. Outside masonry work was practically completed at the time with the finishing of inside plastering and the opening of hallways and doors, connecting with the main building. The annex was be ready for use by the beginning of the fall term of the 1929-1930 school year. The three-story building with a basement annex was completed at a cost of $150,000 in expenditures. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85048131/)
“The three-story and basement annex to the Waco Senior High school building, which when completed and furnished will represent an expenditure of $150,000, is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy late in July, according to the J. S. Harrison Construction company. Outside masonry work is practically completed at this time and with the finishing of inside plastering and the opening of hallways and doors, connecting with the main building, the annex will be ready for use by the beginning of the fall term.”
A 1937 news article from the Waco Tribune-Heraldshowed only a little more than 4% percent of the students who graduated Waco Senior High School received any kind of guidance or counsel on employment, college or any further education in their future life. Waco Tribune-Herald recommended that occupational aid be taught and time given boys for counsel during their high school days. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/47979020/)
The largest summer school ever held at North Junior High School closed with graduation exercises for a class of 32 students promoted to the 10th grade in Waco Senior High School in 1946. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/47962947/)
“The largest summer school ever held at North Junior High School will close with graduation exercises at 10 a. m. Friday for a class of 32 pupils, promoted to the tenth grade in Waco Senior High School. Invocation and benediction will be by Rev. Arthur Stout. The processional will be played by Herbert C. Graeter, faculty member.”
Waco Senior High School was located somewhere at North 15th Street and Columbus Avenue, Waco, Texas, US 76701.
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