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Johnson Elementary School
Legacy Project

1949 - 2024

About
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Opening Day Johnson Elementary School September 19, 1949

Background 

Johnson elementary school was opened on September 19, 1949, and it operated for 75 years until its closing on June 14th, 2024. The school was named after Harold H. Johnson, a former Natick school committee member who was elected in 1933 and served as the chairperson from 1934 to 1954. Johnson was the last "neighborhood school" in Natick where the majority of its students were walkers and lived in the neighborhoods surrounding the school. The school provided happy memories to all of the students who attended and now its legacy will live on through people's hearts and archives.

 

To learn more about Johnson's history visit the History tab of this website.

Credits:

Thank you to all of the staff and students who worked on the Johnson Legacy Website during the 2023-2024 school year.  Special thanks to Mrs. Charleen Belcher, the Johnson school librarian who organized and curated all of the content for the website which was collected and created over several months.  We also want to recognize the Natick High School students,  Sivapriya Kathiravan, Sanjhbati Das, and Sandra Kintu from the Girls Who Code club who spent months working with Mrs. Belcher on creating the website design and taking the curated materials which included yearbooks, artifacts, video, letters, and photos and putting them up on the website. We appreciate their dedication to this project.

 

This website was a labour of love for all of us who worked on it and we are so excited to be able to memorialize the Johnson school community for generations to come. 

This webmaster for this site is Grace Magley, Natick Public Schools Director of Digital Learning.  Grace will be continuing to update the site over the summer of 2024 and will be working to get a permanent domain for it under the Natick Public Schools.  Look for the finished site in the Fall of 2024.  If you need to contact Grace, please email her at gmagley@natickps.org

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