"The right of a student to participate fully in
classroom instruction and extracurricular activities shall not be abridged or impaired
because of sex, race, religion, ancestry, creed, sexual orientation, national origin,
pregnancy, marital or parental status, physical, learning, mental, or emotional disability
or handicap."
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D.C. Everest schools, in partnership with
the community, are committed to be innovative educational leaders in developing
knowledgeable, productive, caring, creative, responsible individuals prepared to meet the
challenges of an ever-changing global society.
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| The D.C. Everest District was consolidated in 1950. In that
year, the old Union High School was combined with the Common School District #1 to form
the D.C. Everest Area School District. The district is named after David Clark Everest,
once President of the Marathon Paper Mills Company, who encouraged expansion of
educational opportunities for the young people of our area. In 1961, Hatley joined the
district, as did Easton in the following year. Today,
the D.C. Everest Area School District includes the City of Schofield; the Villages of
Hatley, Rothschild and Weston; the Townships of Easton, Ringle and Weston and parts of the
Townships of Wausau, Norrie, Reid, and Kronenwetter. This area covers 162 square miles.
Before 1953, the district operated a kindergarten through
tenth grade in Rothschild. A kindergarten through eighth grade was in operation in
Schofield, and smaller one-room schools were in the Townships of Weston, Wausau, and
Kronenwetter. Since most of these buildings were old, the district developed a plan to
build new structures.
The first newly constructed elementary school was completed
in Rothschild in 1960. By 1963, the D.C. Everest Junior-Senior High School (which is now
the Junior High) was overcrowded, so a new section was added. During this time the Weston
Elementary School was built and another section was added to Schofield Elementary School.
In 1968, the present Senior High School was built because the
Junior-Senior High School continued to be overcrowded and facilities were becoming
inadequate. In 1970 a new elementary school was started in the Junior High School section
of the old Junior-Senior School building. The school became necessary because of increased
elementary enrollments and was named Everest Elementary School.
In 1975, a ten-room open-concept structure was added to
Weston Elementary School to accommodate continually growing district enrollments. In 1976,
Evergreen Elementary School was built; the staff and about one-third of the students from
Everest Elementary School moved into that building. The balance of the students came from
other elementary schools in the district after a grade realignment. In 1977, the District
Administration Building was built just north of the new Senior High School. In 1979,
Riverside Elementary School was built. Further construction in 1979 included remodeling at
the Schofield, Hatley, and Easton Elementary Schools and at the Junior and Senior Highs.
In 1990, the citizens of the Everest district
approved a bond referendum that provided $3.6 million dollars for remodeling and expansion
of many of the district's buildings. The remodeling and projects were completed during the
summer of 1991.
In 1998 the district completed construction of the Greenheck
Fieldhouse. This facility was built with contributions from corporations and individuals
in the Greater Wausau Area along with monies from the D.C. Everest Area tax payer who
approved partial financing of the project by the local bond levy.
Today, our school district is organized as a Common School
District for kindergarten through twelve. The enrollment has grown from 1,688 in 1963 to
approximately 4,800 this school year.
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