Haysville Hemphill School

Activity page from the 1958-59 Haysville Hawk yearbook.

The Hemphill School was located at 230 E. Grand, Haysville, KS in USD NO 187. In 1958-59 the school was comprised of seven 8th grade classes and seven 7th grade classes. Some 42 students made up the Traffic Patrol with teacher Glenn Crum as Supervisor. Miss Jane Besler was Pep Club sponsor for the 125 members. Miss Besler was also the sponsor for the approx. 14 member girls Tumbling Team.

Hemphill School principal, W. S. Burnett went on to become Campus High School's first Assistant Principal. Seventh and Eighth grade Core teacher, Glenn Crum and Science teacher Frank Mohesky were also part of Campus High's first faculty members.

Enterprise, One of Four Grade Schools That Made Up Campus High School

Enterprise Grade School one of four elementary schools that was served by Campus High School when it opened in the fall of 1960.



Enterprise 8th Grade Banquet attended by Campus 1961 Alumni.

Enterprise 8th Grade Banquet attended by Campus 1962 Alumni. Class Officers: President, Dale Russell; Vice-President, Ronald Kissack; Secretary, Judith Thompson.

Class Motto: "Success: Our Goal"

HISTORY OF ENTERPRISE GRADE SCHOOL

Enterprise School District 15 was organized in 1875 with a half dozen or so pupils. The schoolhouse was located first at the corner of Broadway and MacArthur Road. Church was held in the building and according to the old timers, a number of men jacked up the structure on Sunday after church in 1880 or 81 and moved it to the prsent location at 3612 South Seneca.

That building served the district until the 1918-19 school year when a two-room modern brick schoolhouse was built. Enrollment had risen to 62 pupils by 1924 and the need for more room brought about construction of two more rooms by 1926.

Addition of three more classrooms and an auditorium in 1949-50 helped relieve crowding. A five-room addition was constructed in 1952 and more classrooms were added in 1954 and 1956.

The last major addition to the building was completed in 1958. Enrollment increased rapidly the next year or two, and it was necessary to locate three classrooms of fifth grade across the street in the National Guard Armory until completion of a new school, South Enterprise located at 2101 West 45th St. South. After the annexation to the Wichita School system in 1963-64 South Enterprise was renamed Clyde V. Cessna.

Upon completion of new school projects than began in 2000 after approval of a $284.5 million bond issue the original red brick Enterprise School house was demolished despite efforts by the community to save the historic school building.

Information compiled from Internet Elementary School Web pages of Haysville and Wichita KS.

GRADE SCHOOLS THAT MADE UP CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL

Campus High School opened in the fall of 1960. It was formed to serve the elementary schools of Haysville, Oatville, South Riverside and Enterprise.

HISTORY OF HAYSVILLE SCHOOL (from HaysvilleOnline.com)

School dist. number 57, Haysville's first school was built in 1876 at a location that may have been near what are now the Water Department facilities. This building was moved to 79th and Seneca where it was eventually replaced by the red brick building in 1919. In 1946 district 57 was consolidated with district 187 to form district 261.
Haysville's entire historic district was destroyed in the 1999 tornado. Destruction of the historic buildings began at the red brick schoolhouse at 79th and Seneca and continued north along Main taking out the elevator, bank, churches and more. The only thing left standing on the east side of Main was the original bank vault.

HISTORY OF OATVILLE SCHOOL

The first Oatville School was a two-room school located at the northwest corner of MacArthur Rd. and West Street in southwest Wichita, near the small community of Oatville. In 1956, the present Oatville Elementary was opened on South Hoover and the principal lived on the campus in a small white house, located directly north of the building.
Oatville then had classes for Kindergarten through eight grade. School buses have since provided transportation for children to the rural elementary school. In 1967, Oatville was unified with the Haysville School District and the seventh and eighth graders were transferred to Haysville Junior High.

HISTORY OF SOUTH RIVERSIDE SCHOOL

William Allen White Elementary School was previously named South Riverside Jr. High School and later was South Riverside Intermediate School. From 1960 to 1964 Riverside School was a feeder school for Campus High School. Due to annexation of almost all of the school district by the Wichita City Commission, the South Riverside Elementary School Dist. became part of the Wichita Public School System in 1964.