In December of 1935, a W. P.A. grant from the Federal Government in the amount of $175,000, made it possible to erect Robbinsdale’s first senior High School. The total cost of the school was $300,000. Enrollment was 675 including both Junior and Senior High. Milo Mielke served as principal for 39 years.
Edith Robbins Daniels, in making a report in 1938 said: “In 1893 the total amount paid out in teachers salaries was $1,342, in 1938 it was $63,018. In 1893 only $5.75 was spent for work on the school for the entire year, in 1938 $1,624.14 was spent on upkeep and grounds. School supplies cost $39.50 in 1893, in 1938 the cost was $3,348.”
his material was gathered from the North Hennepin Post and the diaries of Ellen M. Bisbee, (sister of J. P. Shumway and Nathan F. Russ J. P. Shumway). It was compiled and edited by Evelyn and Esther Shumway for a Robbinsdale Historiocal Society slide show in 1980.