The History of Bellevue City Schools
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Union School - 1862-1900 |
The Bellevue schools began in a one-room log house in 1827. The first class to graduate from Bellevue High School was in 1870 with two students receiving their diplomas. |
Central High School - 1900-1927 |
Today the Bellevue City School District, which encompasses one hundred and thirty six square miles, serves a student population of twenty one hundred and sixty two students. The District employs one hundred and ninety three certified educators, eighty nine classified employees (bus drivers, cooks, custodians, maintenance workers, instructional aides and secretaries,) making the District one of the largest employers in the Bellevue area. The District’s operating budget totals twenty two point one million ($22.1 million) dollars. |
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Central High School - 1927-1962 |
The monies to provide funding for the operating budget come from local taxes (49%), state and federal (51%), and grants totaling one point three million ($1.3 million) dollars. The District also has a Permanent Improvement levy which annually provides five hundred and fifty thousand ($550,000) dollars .This fund can only be used for purchasing buses, renovation and upkeep of buildings, and the purchasing of equipment, including new technology. |
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Bellevue Senior High School - 1962- today |
For ten years the majority of these funds were utilized to pay off the bond indebtedness incurred to make our facilities more energy efficient, and install network wiring in every room, fiber optic cable between in-town buildings, and computers for students and staff. The last payment on this bond was made in December of 2006, thus making the District debt free. Since then we have continued our efforts to maintain our buldings. We have also renewed our commitment to updating the technology available to our students. Among many projects, we have installed a state-of-the-art Technology Lab at the Junior High, and upgraded our existing IT lab at the HS. |
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Bellevue City Schools
