Ladd
Sanford B. Ladd School
35th & Walrond
This time the plan was different. The new school would be built; and there would be no temporary one and two room frame buildings with no water and no pot belly stoves. The school stood on a terrace about four feet above the street at 35th & Walrond and was opened in September, 1912. Its name became the Sanford B. Ladd School.
The following year, 1913, to the surprise of school officials, the new 10 room school was filled to capacity and half day classes had to be invoked. The pride of having a new school with no temporary frame buildings was soon crushed and at the beginning of the second year. Rather than going to half day sessions, two frame buildings were erected in the still new schoolyard.
In 1916, the seventh grade, with their teachers, was moved to the Central High School and the school continued to operate up to the sixth grade level. But the housing of students was still unsolved. During the war building conditions were almost prohibitive so three more rooms were added to the colony of frame buildings making a total of nine annex rooms.
In 1922 an addition to the building was completed and included 18 classrooms, a gymnasium and an auditorium. The teaching staff consisted of 20 classroom teachers, a domestic science and manual training teacher.
Enrollment in 1922 totaled 982 students.
Sanford B. Ladd was a Kansas City attorney and was the attorney for the Kansas City Board of Education for 45 years.