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Winfield High School (WHS), previously Winfield Junior-Senior High School, [1] is a senior high school in Winfield, Kansas. It is a part of Winfield Unified School District 465.
The school first opened prior to the start of the 20th Century in the former Central School, which received an addition in 1880. A new building, with three stories, [2] and having an auditorium and gymnasium, [1] opened in 1910; this facility, made of brick, was colored red. [2] The new building began hosting assemblies of area schools and allowed for increased programming. [1]
In 1911 the school newspaper, The Oracle, debuted. [1] A bond proposal for an addition known as a "manual high school" building passed in 1916. In 1951 an industrial arts building opened to the west of the 1910 facility. In 1971 a new facility opened. [1]
The Winfield High School band appeared around 1910 and the first recording of its activities appeared in 1916; previously teenagers wanting to do band activities joined practice sessions from the junior league of the city band. [3]
Beverley Olson Buller, who wrote the book Winfield, stated that the 1910s physical education classes "likely" resulted in the May Fete celebrations held in the mid-1910s. [4]