School Guide

Central Junior High
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Central Junior High, which is just south of Lawrence's downtown at 14th and Massachusetts, got its start as the city's post-World War I high school.

Free State High School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
With Lawrence High School bursting at the seams in 1994, voters were asked to approve a new high school in the northwest part of the city.

Lawrence High School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Lawrence High School, which was first opened in 1955, is one of three public high school campuses in Lawrence, serving students in grades 10 through 12.

South Junior High
Thursday, December 30, 2004
South Junior High was the city's third junior high, and was built during the late ‘60s during a rapid growth period in what is now southern Lawrence.

Southwest Junior High School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Southwest Junior High is the city's newest junior high, built in response to a rapid growth during the 1990s in west and southwest Lawrence.

West Junior High School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
West Junior High, which is actually now nestled in what has become central Lawrence, was the second junior high school built in the city.

Deerfield School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
On any spring day, you're likely to find softball teams practicing or neighborhood children walking by.
But in the 1960s, the area was still fairly rural. Deer and other wildlife were not an uncommon sight.

Cordley School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Cordley School is the oldest elementary school still in operation in Lawrence. And, through its namesake, the school traces a lineage back to Lawrence's earliest -- and darkest -- days.

Broken Arrow School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Named in honor of a nearby American Indian institution, Broken Arrow School in south central Lawrence has had an interesting history.

Hillcrest School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Looking for a school in Lawrence that serves as a melting pot of cultures? Check out Hillcrest School, 1045 Hilltop Dr., which is in central Lawrence, just west of Kansas University's campus.

Kennedy School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Some might guess that Kennedy School was named after former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. But the eastern Lawrence school, located near the Douglas County Fairgrounds at 1605 Davis Road, was actually named in honor of a long-time Lawrence educator.

Langston Hughes School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Langston Hughes School, Lawrence's newest elementary school, is in a relatively new housing development in western Lawrence. The school, which was built in 2000 at 1101 George Williams Way, was named for Langston Hughes, an African-American writer and poet who lived in Lawrence as a child.

New York School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
New York School is in one of Lawrence's oldest neighborhoods just a few blocks east of the city's downtown at 936 New York St. The school was named after New York Street, where it was built in 1937.

Pinckney School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Pinckney School, 810 W. Sixth St., is named for Charles Coatsworth Pinckney, one of the nation's founding fathers and a two-time presidential candidate for the Federalist Party.

Prairie Park School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Constructed in 1994, Prairie Park School, 2711 Kensington Rd., is one of the newest schools in Lawrence. The school was built on 27th Street, near Prairie Park in the Chaparral subdivision. Prairie Park was so named because of the nature preserve that included several acres of natural prairie land

Quail Run School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Many of the older schools in Lawrence were named after people. But when Quail Run School was constructed in 1988, the school board decided to go in a different direction -- naming the school after the surrounding housing development in western Lawrence.

Schwegler School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Schwegler School, constructed in 1957, is located a few blocks south and west of Kansas University's main campus. Besides being close to campus in central Lawrence, the school, at 2201 Ousdahl Rd., also has another tie to KU -- its name.

Sunset Hill School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
In the early 1950s, Lawrence was growing just to the west of Iowa Street. And a housing development called Sunset Hill was being built, creating the need for a new elementary school for the young families moving there.

Wakarusa Valley School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
You'll have to leave Lawrence's city limits and go south of the Wakarusa River to find Wakarusa Valley School. The school is about two miles south of the western city limits, just south and east of the Clinton Lake dam at 1104 E. 1000 Rd.

Woodlawn School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Woodlawn School in North Lawrence has a long history, tracing its roots back to the earliest settlements in the area.

Sunflower School
Thursday, December 30, 2004
When school district officials were trying to figure out in the early 1990s what to call a new school being built in southwest Lawrence, they didn't have to look far. Just to the south of the new school was a field of sunflowers, whose late summer blooms provided inspiration for the name.

- Private - Bishop Seabury Academy
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Bishop Seabury Academy is a private Episcopal day school for girls and boys in grades seven through 12. The school, which was started in the 1997-98, teaches a traditional, college preparatory curriculum.

- Private - Lawrence Catholic School
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Lawrence Catholic School is a Catholic parochial school that serves the Roman Catholic church congregations in Lawrence.

- Private - Raintree Montessori School
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Raintree Montessori, located in southwest Lawrence, began in 1978 with two primary classrooms. It now has a toddler classroom, nine primary classrooms, two lower elementary classrooms and two upper elementary classrooms.

- Private - Veritas Christian School
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Veritas Christian School school is a non-denominational Christian school serving students in kindergarten through grade 12.

- Private - Century School
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Century School is a private school just west of Lawrence's historic downtown. Located at 816 Kentucky St., the kindergarden through grade six school had 62 students enrolled in the fall of 2004.