Following the advice of Waterloo Supervising Principal Albert Brown, voters approved the centralization of schools by a margin of 435 to 68 votes.
[1] Waterloo High School is located at 96 Stark Street and serves grades 9 through 12.
Starting in 1966, the ninth grade was housed at Main Street until renovations could be made to the high school building to increase capacity.
Waterloo Middle School is located at 65 Center Street and serves grades 6 through 8.
[2] Waterloo Middle School was part of the Waterloo Central School until 1961, when the senior high grades moved to Center Street, and grades 7-8 remained at the Junior High building at 202 West Main Street.
The current principal is Shaun Merrill LaFayette was built in 1951 and served Grades K-5 for students in the northern half of the canal district in Waterloo.
The school differed from LaFayette and Skoi Yase in that grades are instead known as "levels" in which students are placed for two consecutive years.
It moved to the current Main Street location, previously the Waterloo Middle School campus, in 2006.
The former Border City campus was sold by the Waterloo district is now used as headquarters for God's Church of Revealed Truth.