South Beaver Elementary School

South Beaver Elementary School was an elementary school in Flagstaff, Arizona. The school was a part of Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) up until its closure in 2010. However, the school was leased, and later purchased, by Northern Arizona University (NAU) and is now used for the intensive English program for non-native English speakers.

History

Created in May 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), South Beaver Elementary was a segregated school for Hispanic students, and later African-American students after the closure of Dunbar School, and remained segregated up until the 1950s. The school was primarily dominated by said ethnic groups until its closure.

South Beaver Elementary School

South Beaver has had close relations with NAU since the 1940s with NAU students helping to teach and tutor at South Beaver to NAU donating 18 Macintosh SE computers to the school in 1995. In 1946, the school participated in a school safety patrol with the 20–30 Club in order to bring awareness to general student safety as students get to and from school.

South Beaver was the oldest and smallest school building FUSD owned and was the first magnet school the district offered.

Before the Kinlani Dormitory (now the Flagstaff Bordertown Dormitory), a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIE)-contracting dormitory, stopped taking younger students, it sent younger children living there to South Beaver Elementary.

First Grade Class

References

• McManimon, Michelle (17 March 2015). "NAU to buy South Beaver school". Arizona Daily Sun. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "Separate but Equal: A History of Segregation in Flagstaff". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• Lucero, Herman Robert. "Plessy to Brown: Education of Mexican Americans in Arizona public schools during the era of segregation". UA Campus Repository. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "South Beaver School Safety Patrol; 20-30 Club, 1946". Fronske Studio. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "The Lumberjack, October 11, 1995". Northern Arizona University Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "The Lumberjack, March 11, 1971". Northern Arizona University Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "The Pine, April 1, 1941". Northern Arizona University Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "Grade 1; South Beaver School; A Friend; Flagstaff, AZ; Tilda M.Johnson". Northern Arizona University Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
• "So. Beaver School". Northern Arizona University Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved 24 May 2016.