[4] In 1979 the school was renamed in honor of Golda Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, who attended the institution from 1906 to 1912.

The 1890 lower campus building is a National Historic Landmark, designated in 1990 for its association with Meir.

Hallmarks of the style are the rough stone foundation (to give it a sense of rootedness) and the round-topped arches.

Titled "Milwaukee Illustrated" it celebrated the city's history until removed in 1998 to make way for a new theme, "Golda's Gallery: The Decades on Display.

"[citation needed] In commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001, a "Labyrinth of Peace" was drawn on to the school playground.

In 1912 the girl who had arrived as a poor Jewish-Ukrainian immigrant with weak English graduated from Fourth Street School as valedictorian.

[8] Four years later she graduated from Milwaukee's North Division High School and entered teachers' college, but her interest in Palestine was growing.

[1] On October 3, 1969, Prime Minister Meir revisited her old Fourth Street School in Milwaukee, accompanied by U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and local Aldermen Vel Phillips and Orville Pitts.

[1][3] A plaque mounted outside the front door of the school reads in part "it was here that she learned the values that carried her through life.