Title: Racine Unified School District No. 1 (Wis.): Reports and Financial Records
Inclusive Dates: 1910-1971

Creator:

• Racine Unified School District No. 1 (Wis.)

Call Number: Racine Series 137

Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes, 1 record center carton, and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Reports, primarily of a financial or statistical nature, of the Racine School District. Included are published annual reports of the superintendent to the Racine Board of Education, 1910-1930; audits; budgets; reports to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1920-1967; and files on the construction of individual school buildings. The superintendent's annual reports to the board include statistics on the student population and district income and expenditures, directories of school officials and teachers, statutes, rules, and regulations; lists of high school graduates; and illustrations. The annual reports to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction include descriptive statistics about the district and its student population; reports of receipts and expenditures; and information about the instructional staff, their professional qualifications, and salaries. Early reports submitted to the district superintendent by individual school principals are also included. After 1960 the state superintendent's reports include only the materials used in the preparation of the state reports, but not the final reports themselves. Also included are a few NEA reports and district self-evaluations submitted to the state office. The construction files consist of correspondence and memoranda exchanged with architects, contractors, and prospective bidders for building projects between 1913 and 1922. There are specifications in the files, but no plans or drawings. Additionally, there are reports on two special district studies: one undertaken by the Board of Education itself in 1926 and one conducted by Griffenhagen and Associates in 1933. Also included is a survey of public educational opportunities in the district, conducted by the League of Women Voters of Racine, 1971, and a promotional brochure (undated) for the Prairie School, a private school.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to a portion of this material; for details see the Restriction/Administrative Information portion of this finding aid.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-raci0137

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Access Restrictions

Restricted: The early reports to the State Superintendent sometimes contain lists of exceptional students together with information about handicaps, educational accomplishments, and intelligence. Because this information may be confidential by state statute, researchers wishing to use Boxes 4-6 must agree not to disclose any personally identifiable information.

Acquisition Information

Includes former Racine Series 87 and 88. (These two numbers were then reassigned to something else.) Accession Number: C1975/055-056, C1975/060-062, C2007/075

Box   1 Folder   1	Annual reports of the superintendent to the Board of Education, 1910-1930
Box   2 Folder   1-3	Audits, 1926-1955
	Budgets
Box   2 Folder   4-7	1912-1920, 1943-1952, 1960
Box   9	1967
	Construction files
Box   2 Folder   8	Bull School, 1913-1919
Box   3 Folder   1	Bull School, continued
Box   3 Folder   2	Knapp School, 1914
Box   3 Folder   3	McKinley School, 1920-1921
Box   3 Folder   4	Pratt School, 1915
Box   3 Folder   5	Washington School, 1920-1922
	Miscellany
Box   4 Folder   1	Receipts, 1912-1919
Box   4 Folder   2	Sample book inventory, circa 1920
Box   4 Folder   3	Horlick School treasury, 1940-1944
Box   7 Folder   7-8	Racine Survey, 1926
Box   7 Folder   4	Report #1 from Griffenhagen and Associates, 1933
Box   7 Folder   5	Teachers' salaries, 1921-1932
Box   7 Folder   6	Washington Park High School treasury and library reports, 1941-1945
	State Superintendent of Public Instruction reports (RESTRICTED)
Box   7 Folder   7-10	1920/1921 - 1924/1925
Box   5 Folder   1-29	1925/1926 - 1954/1955
Box   6 Folder   1-5	1955/1956 - 1959/1960
	Work sheets, preliminary internal reports only
Box   6 Folder   6	1960/1961
Box   7 Folder   1-4	1961/1962 - 1964/1965
Box   7 Folder   5	NEA reports, 1951-1964
Box   7 Folder   6	Self evaluations, 1960-1961
Box   8	Principals' reports to superintendent
Box   9	Survey of public educational opportunities, 1971
Box   9	Prairie School, undated