Deerfield Beach Elementary School

Deerfield Beach Elementary School
Address
650 NE 1st St Deerfield Beach , Florida 33441 United States
Information
School type	Public, Elementary school
Opened	1927
School district	Broward County Public Schools
NCES District ID	1200180[1]
Superintendent	Dr. Peter B. Licata
School number	0011
NCES School ID	120018000141[2]
Principal	Drew Gerlach
Grades	K–5
Website	www.browardschools.com/deerfieldbeachelem
Deerfield Beach Elementary School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates	26°19′11″N 80°05′43″W
Architect	Thomas D. McLaughlin
NRHP reference No.	90000319[3]
Added to NRHP	16 April 1990

The Deerfield Beach Elementary School is a historic school in Deerfield Beach, Florida. It is located at 651 Northeast 1st Street and is in the Broward County Public Schools school district. On April 16, 1990, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm Thomas D. McLaughlin and Associates, and situated on land bought in 1925 by the Broward County Board of Public Instruction for $21,000 the school was built in 1926 and 1927 by the Alfred W. Kimmel Company of Pompano Beach for a cost of $55,000.^[4]

History

Despite being one of the country's oldest schools, the school's facilities are still in use. The first Old Deerfield School is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[5] The property for the school was obtained by the Broward County Board of Public Instruction in an exchange with the city of Deerfield Beach for the old school property.^[6]

References

1. "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Broward County Public Schools". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
2. "Search for Public Schools - Deerfield Beach Elementary School (120018000141)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
3. "National Register Information System – Deerfield Beach Elementary School (#90000319)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
4. Bigger, Margaret S.; Walton, R. Douglas (10 January 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Deerfield Beach Elementary School" (PDF). National Park Service.
   • "Accompanying 11 photos, from 1988" (PDF). National Park Service.
5. Soler, Eileen; Cohen, Howard (3 October 2010). "Old school". Neighbors Sunday. Miami Herald (Broward ed.). p. 1BE. Retrieved 25 November 2018 – via NewsBank.
6. Roesch, Brian (November 2002). Another Sixth Sense: The Fort Lauderdale Story. iUniverse. pp. 143–4. ISBN 978-0-595-25076-9.

Further reading

• Willson, Elizabeth (10 January 1985). "Boundary exemption is sought \ Deerfield Beach may bypass black school". Broward. Miami Herald (Broward ed.). p. 1BR – via NewsBank.
• Allen, Dale; Capone, Rick (2000). Deerfield Beach. Arcadia Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-7385-0646-3.
• Delgado, Berta (16 March 1996). "The way we were - At age 70, elementary school looks back". Local. Sun-Sentinel (Final ed.). p. 1B – via NewsBank.

External links

• Official website
• "Deerfield Beach Elementary School". at Broward County's list of NRHP sites.
• Deerfield Beach Elementary School at the Wayback Machine (archived March 10, 2007) Florida Heritage Tourism Interactive Catalog