History of West Elementary School
1965-2006

West Elementary was constructed by the J.D. Mullican Company during 1964-1965.  It was built on the twelve acre site of the old McMinnville Country Club golf course.  The Mayor of McMinnville was Franklin P. Blue.  The McMinnville Board of Aldermen were J.C. Myers, Sr., President, Aaron Durham, Charles Keplinger, Sam Martin, Jr., J. C. Panter, and Nestor Stewart.  Members on the McMinnville City Board of Education were J.W. Anderson, chairman, Franklin H. Brown, Bill Martin, Hugh Millraney, and Clarence Warren.  Carl Campbell was the Superintendent of the City School System.

The $600,000.00 construction cost was funded by a bond issue.  Repayment was to take place over a period of 25 years.

West Elementary opened in the fall of 1965 with an enrollment of seven hundred students consisting of grades one through five.

On December 30, 1976, the Board of Education agreed plans should proceed toward construction of a new kindergarten center near West Elementary.  On January 17, 1977, the Board of Education approved Upper Cumberland Construction Company's bid of $255,800.00 to build the kindergarten wing adjoining West Elementary.  In May of 1977, the colors, carpet, and tile were approved as presented to the Board of Education.  In October of 1977, the kindergarten center opened as a part of West Elementary.

In 1992 a physical education gymnasium was added to the facility.  This building provides an area not only for physical education classes but the only room large enough to hold our entire student body for general assembly sessions.