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., 1928
By 1928, [at John Adams Junior High at Sixth and Ocean Park Blvd.] the enrollment had reached 700 pupils, and during the intervening years the building program had not kept pace with the increase in pupil population. True, a classroom wing of six rooms had been added, and a cafeteria unit installed in the basement; there were boys' and girls' gymnasiums, two shop buildings, and a four-room-bungalow extension on the west side of the main building. [22. Idem.] But these had long since proved to be inadequate. Moreover, as the enrollment continued to climb, the Board deemed it unwise to add further buildings to an already crowded site.