History
West University Elementary School opened sometime around 1928; originally Pershing Middle School was connected to WUES; Pershing later obtained its own campus in Houston in 1948.
In the 1970s and 1980s West University parents reshaped a school which Tim Fleck of the Houston Press described as "deteriorating" into "a community focal point that kept many West U children in public school through the fifth grade." West University Elementary School as, by the 1990s, became what Fleck described as "the prototype of how the increasingly minority district could maintain the allegiance of affluent whites" and "a selling point for parents moving into the area." The Rice School opened in August 1994 to relieve West University Elementary School and several nearby campuses. As a result the attendance boundary was shifted, and the school began serving all of Sunset Terrace/Montclair; previously a portion of that community was zoned to West University, with the other portion zoned to Will Rogers.
Construction on West University Elementary's addition began in Winter 2005. The lead architect is Pearson English Architectural Design, Incorporated, with Heery International as the main architect. The original budget was $9,600,000 United States dollars. Construction ended in 2006. .
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