Many teachers who received their educational certificates from Arizona State University, originally called Tempe Normal School, taught in one of the two-schoolroom buildings.

He also built a replica of the original school house for the Kyrene Bicentennial Parade.

Kyrene approached the early 1970s with 600 students in the entire district, mostly Hispanic students from a small area named "Sende Vista", just south of Guadalupe, an area of South Phoenix called "Highland Terrace", and the Hightown neighborhood of Chandler.

Resources in the '70s were concentrated on building classroom space for the district that would grow fourfold by 1980.

Kyrene MS opened as a junior high and was converted to a full 6-8 middle school in 1989.