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Catawba High School / Catawba Elementary School

                             

 

                           
 

In the early days of Catawba County, only the nearby common schools were available to Catawba children.  By 1890, however, the Catawba Academy was started for higher learning.  It later took the name Catawba High School and then years later after Bunker Hill High School was built, it became Catawba Elementary School for grades K to 8.

 
Catawba High School / Catawba Elementary School
 
 
 
This photo of the students at Catawba High School in 1930 includes a 15-year-old Daisy Pearl Loftin
 
 

The school as she appeared in 1988

 
 
 
[I, the Webmaster, attended the school from 1959 to 1968 when it was Catawba Elementary School.  The following blueprints of the layout of the building are to the best of my memory approximately 50 years later.]
 

1st Floor
(Ground Level)

 
 

2nd Floor

 
 

Basement

 
 

Catawba Baptist Church (left), Catawba Elementary/High School (center)
and Gymnasium with red double doors (right)

 
 

(Left) The main student entrance to the school
(Right) Side view of the old school

 

 
 
 
Catawba  Baptist Church purchased the school property and buildings which included the old school, the cafeteria, the gymnasium and the auditorium.  To provide additional parking for the church, the school was burned by the Catawba Fire Department in 1988.
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

These photos of the school Cafeteria (left) and Auditorium (right) were taken 14 Dec 2006.  The Baptist Church now owns the old Cafeteria and Auditorium.  It is still used as a voting precinct by the town of Catawba.  The school gymnasium used to stand between the two building, but is no longer there.  The old school was burned in 1988 to provide needed parking for the Baptist Church.

 
 
 
 
SOURCES
 

Many of the photos of the school are courtesy of the Town of Catawba Historical Museum

 

Blueprints of the school courtesy of Curtis Loftin

 
 
 

If you have additional photos of Catawba Elementary/High School, please contact me.