Oak Park School District

[4] The district began with Clinton School, a one-room schoolhouse near the present-day Nova Academy.

[6] In 1945, the Wineman School area was growing rapidly due to Oakdale Gardens, a housing project for African Americans in Royal Oak Township.

It would ultimately be reabsorbed into the Oak Park School District in 1960.

[9] Its facilities included the old schoolhouse and a 2-classroom building for which a five-room addition was being planned.

[12] As the city of Oak Park grew quickly in the 1950s, the district hired O'Dell, Hewlett and Luckenbach architects to design new schools.