Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-31
WAUWATOSA'S SCHOOL
Communication.


Wauwatosa has always been proud
of her schools. Her high school has
always ranked among the best in the
state. IN the work of instruction, her
primary schools have been as good as
any, although in equipment they have
fallen short and the central grades
building has been poorly lighted and
ventilated. In its present crowded
condition is is decidedly inadequate,
and it is, of course, out of date in
many respects.
But Wauwatosa is now facing real
crisis in the matter of providing suf-
ficient room for her fast growing
school population. The central grades
school has total attendance in kim
dergarten and the first five grades of
43S pupils, with only nine rooms avail
able in the central grades building.
And these figures tell only a small
part Of the story.
The kindergarten has SO pupils. The
first grade 80. The second grade rs.
The third grade rs. And the fourth
and fifth grades ga and 81, respective
ly.
The school census two years ago
showed an increase in school popula-
ton of about 100. Last year it showed
gain of about 125. This means an
increase in school population of
enough pupils to fill about three adj
ditional rooms each year. In two
years more our third grade will sup
ply the fifth with rs pupils in place
of 81 and to these will be added at
least ten more from among the new
Corners. Our kindergarten will face
us with not less than 125 pupils, and
the present kindergarten will supply
the second grade rooms with nearly
100 plus about 25 newcomers, thus
giving the second grade about 125
pupils instead of the rs which it now
has.
The Aetna Park school is not yet
| filled, but these little children can not
be sent over there, and in any event
the normal growth of that district
will fill that school within two or .nree
years more as full as the rooms ought
| to be filled.
But even this is not all the story.
In the last two years Improvements
have been completed between Wash
ington park and Wauwatosa Avenue,
which make all that property avail
able to settlement with all improve
ments. AS soon as the reconstruction
period is in full swing, it is generally
recognized that there must be an era
of unparalleled building activity.
And there is no doubt that the West
| Side growth will flow into this district
as water flows down hill. No other
district has water and sewer facilities,
car lines and improved streets, all in
terposed between two attractive city
centers.
ABOUT IT?
We are going to build an eight
room unit at once on the site recently
acquired north of the high school. We
are going to do it because WE MUST.
The topography of Wauwatosa is such
that if we wish to save large expense
in the future we must plan this build
ing so that it can become an unusually
large building in the future by addi-
/ lions to be planned now.
We are then going to build another
building in the very near future In
the district north of Pabst Avenue
| washington Street, and East of
Eighth Avenue. 1t does not make one
whit of difference who the members OF
the school board may be during the
next five years. These things will ne
done because there is no escape, and
each added year viii furnish addition
al proof Of the fact.
But the story is not yet all told
Most of US viii live to see two more
school houses built within the present
limits of Wauwatosa. One viii prob
ablv be erected east Of Eighth Street
| and south of East Milwaukee Avenue
and another somewhere between the
| Wellauer tract and the County Build
linos. Where will the money COM
! from? The answed to this question Is
That school population increase IS al
wavs dependent upon general popuia-
| ton increase and property value m
crease. a ora which