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In 1910, the Idaho State School and Hospital was built northwest of Nampa for the state's developmentally challenged population. It opened in 1918.…
The first Sunny Ridge School was built in 1917 as a two-room building. One room held grades 1-4, the other, grades 5-8.
Sunny Ridge joined the…
Nampa school's enrollment began to exceed capacity. In December 1918, the burgeoning enrollment reached 1,881. The board inaugurated a bungalow…
In 1913, Eugene Emerson of Nampa attended a general meeting of the Idaho-Oregon District of the Nazarene Church where an education committee…
The early Nampa Schools held all grades. The first Nampa High graduation was held on May 28, l903, at the beautiful Dewey Palace Hotel.
The high…
A two-story brick building completed in 1912 with approximately 100 students enrolled.
The name is said to have come from the sole cottonwood tree…
An L-shaped brick building completed in 1950. Lincoln School had 13 rooms and was the only grade-school with a full-sized gymnasium in Nampa, that…
Lakeview School, located near Lake Ethel, opened in 1892.
In 2015, Idaho Arts Charter School added 2 additional wings to the building and updated…
A 1901 bond election allowed for the construction of an $8,000 brick school named Kenwood. The structure was expanded several times, including 1905…
George Jacobsen discusses growing up in Nampa in the 1920s, and watching Nampa evolve through the Great Depression and World War II.
Janet Hay discusses arriving in Nampa in the 1960s and her work on the state Board of Education, as well as her eventual transition into running for…
Helen describes her experiences growing up and attending school in Nampa, and the games children would play together. She recalls the hardships she…
Agnes was born in Nampa in 1895. Her father worked on the Nampa railroad and her husband worked as a janitor in a school, where she would occasionally…
Steck, who was born in Nampa in 1917, was a teacher and principal for many years and worked at various schools around Canyon County and in Nampa. He…
Flossie came to Nampa with her family in 1925 and would go on to teach in various Nampa schools. She reflects on the Prisoner of War camps, which…