Woodrow Wilson School was built in 1928 at the site of the 
Rose Garden school.  The citizens in the far north Rose Garden
addition had constructed a school of their own about 1912.
It was considered innovative because it was all on the ground
floor and each classroom opened out onto the playground.  The
building, on the north end of the schoolyard, still used as classrooms today,
was Rose Garden School.  A cafeteria and auditorium were built in 1941.
In the 1980s when Shawnee schools were divided into grade centers, Wilson 
was the school for 6th graders.  At the present time Wilson
is the Shawnee Early Childhood Center.  A new ECC located on
 Saratoga Street, will open during the 2008 school year.