The differences between McKinley Elementary in the 400 block of East Magnolia Avenue and...
A 1970 map of SAISD elementary-school boundaries, published in the San Antonio Express, shows attendance zones for the district's schools.I attended McKinley Elementary School in the 1950s and ’60s. Until 1961, McKinley had six grades and five teachers. That meant that grades were combined. I remember it as a small but fun school. We had recesses morning and afternoon — I guess so we could run off some energy — and lunch/recess at around noon.
In the prologue to “Romeo and Juliet” — trust me, this relates — Shakespeare introduces the Montague and Capulet families as “two households, both alike in dignity.” That’s what you’d think these two elementary schools were — McKinley in the 400 block of East Magnolia Avenue and Gonzales in the 500 block of the same street. Cheek by jowl, separate but equal, right? But for most of the 40 years they coexisted, they were too close for comfort — until they finally got together in their last act.
When the building was remodeled, on the recommendation of Jeremiah Rhodes, superintendent of San Antonio public schools, “The manual training and household arts laboratories made larger … owing to the type of community it will serve,” as reported in the San Antonio Express, Feb. 16, 1923. That area was often referred to as “the Mexican section.”
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