Wahl-Coates Elementary School

Wahl-Coates Elementary School is an elementary school located in Greenville, North Carolina. It is one of 16 elementary schools located within Pitt County. It is in a unique partnership with Pitt County Schools (PCS) and East Carolina University. The university used its funds to build the facility, while PCS furnished the school. Wahl-Coates sits on 17.3acre. It used to be located in two different areas on the East Carolina campus.HistoryThe Model School, which was the original name of Wahl-Coates, was built on East Carolina's campus in 1914 and served as a laboratory school for the university, providing student teaching opportunities for university students. The school resulted from an April 21, 1913 meeting between former Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of East Carolina Teachers Training School, and the Board of Trustees of the Greenville Graded Schools. The two institutions entered into an agreement that would create the Model School. The original school building was located on the northwestern part of the campus. Greenville originally paid for the construction, then East Carolina paid it back. At first the building had only four rooms. A second story was added in 1917. This school building was demolished in 1927, when the new building was built.