1970

POPULATION:  17,892

HOUSES:  4,260

SCHOOLS

• School Committee expresses need for new high school, recommending a 1700 student 4-year school
• The recommendation is rejected by Town Meeting
• New high school teachers include Sally Fleming (Watters), social studies
• Two-wing addition is completed on Fisher School, including new gymnasium, media center, 5th and 6th Grade classrooms, and Walpole's first-ever classrooms built specifically for kindergarten, which would become mandatory beginning in 1973.
  
  

  

  First Graders arrive for opening of new addition to Fisher School

  
  

  

  New Media Center at Fisher School

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Number of classrooms by school and grade