Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1936
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The largest project in the building program was the complete rehabilitation and modernization of the high school. W.P.A. funds provided a new auditorium, Barnum Hall, which included practice rooms for band and orchestra as well as two music classrooms; a boys' gymnasium; a new wing to the library; and a new shop building. [26.Beach City Labor Journal, Santa Monica Schools Edition, October, 1937, p. 3.] But funds were not sufficient to complete the project, and in 1936 an additional $250,000 in bond money was voted for the purpose. When the high school plant wash
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In 1936, a new John Adams plant on a twelve-acre tract at Sixteenth and Pearl Streets provided Santa Monica with the latest architectural development in Junior high schools. The nucleus of the present-day plant contained fifteen regular classrooms, art and home economics rooms, a library, cafeteria, and administrative offices. The school opened with an enrollment of 600 and a teaching staff of twenty-six full-time and nine part-time teachers. [24. Pearl, op. cit., p. 74.]