Opened in 1954 and with a population that continued to climb rapidly, Westview School soon needed to add to its original 12 rooms; a modest addition in 1957 in an identical idiom provided four more classrooms and an assembly room that doubled as a gym
Designed by architects Prain and Ward, Westview elementary is on the early end of the post-war style for modern schools, with residual touches of fenestration and detailing that were not typically used by the younger firms at the time
Over a single-storey frame of wood and steel, the school is faced with a brown brick and with (formerly) large multi-paned windows in each classroom; it is L-shaped following the addition in 1957 and a gym was added on the south end in 1969
Author Nan Shipley wrote that the small school still had an enrolment of 413 students in 1983 but this number has dropped as the surrounding community ages
