Broadway High School - Sealth Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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nn:zz:m:::::::msg::1::mc::::g:m::::m:::::mm:zz-::marn Wmnlu:.::Ir:w::::.I::1u:wr.ur:::':g:v:-... ..,. . W.. The School N the fall of 1903, Broadway was completed by the contractors and the school board announced it ready for occupation. Before that time, Central, whioh had been transformed from a grammar into a high school, was the only available building for the teaching of high school subjects. Broadway was therefore the first high school in the city of Seattle. It is today the largest school in the city and one of the leading ones of the Northwest and Pacific Coast. Broadway today covers a square city block and together with the recently built annex makes it one of the big industrial schools of the state. It has at present about eighty rooms and as many teachers, with a library large enough to care for the present needs of the school. The present enrollment totals over two thousand two hundred pupils. The immense size of the school when it was constructed afforded much criticism from taxpayers. But since, it has outgrown all expec- tations, so that it was necessary in 1920 to construct in Lincoln Park six portables to talke care of the overflow. The completion of Gar- field High reduced the number of pupils coming here, and the port- ables were dismantled. Since 1915 the school has gradually been turning toward the in- dustrial side of education. The north end of the basement was built into shop, foundries and auto repair rooms, for the time being, as an experiment. XVith the passage of the Smith-Hughes bill in 1918, Broadway was started on its present journey of industrial education. More subjects were added as a result of the Smith-Hughes act and soon the enrollment outgrew the room and was given to the indus- trial department. At the beginning of the ensuing school year, the Broadway annex was completed. It is a two story con'crete structure and in 'it are all the shops. The rooms formerly in the basementfhave been remodeled and made into classrooms. Broadway being the only industrial school in the city will probably be made exclusively that in years to come, according to reports from the school board officials. In Broadway is conducted a part time school for those who work their way through school and who can only attend for a few hours. During recent years high school self-government made its appear- ance throughout the country. Broadway was the first school in the city to enjoy it. It made its debut at Broadway in 1919, when each class elected four representatives to meet with Mr. Froula every other week. During the succeeding years it has grown considerably Page 14 '