Archives Closed Schools T-Z: Waller Elementary School

Other Name: Alice Waller Elementary; Waller Environmental School; Waller-Williams Environmental School; Willoughby Special School

Last Address: 6601 Dixie Highway

Year Opened: 1953

Year Closed: 1980

Waller Elementary was one of the first new schools to be built with revenue from a special building tax approved in 1952.  Located in Pleasure Ridge Park, it was named for longtime Kerrick School teacher Alice Waller.  It closed as an elementary in 1980.  The Willoughby Special School relocated to the Waller building but was closed in 1983.  The Waller Environmental School opened in the building in 1986.  Following Waller Environmental's move to the former Williams Middle School building and its renaming to Waller-Williams Environmental in 1998, the old Waller Elementary building was auctioned and razed.  A Lowe's Home Improvement store was built on the site.