Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, located at 1200 Hackberry, was first opened in September of 1918 on the corner of Hackberry and Twelfth Street.  It was the second elementary school to be built in McAllen and was originally named North Ward School.

 There were only eight classrooms with one hundred twenty children in grades one through three.  After 1947 several additions were made to the original building.

 In 1988 the citizens of McAllen passed a bond election to fund the building of a new Wilson Elementary School  facility.  Because of limited ground space, a two-story school was designed which contains thirty classrooms, a learning media center, music room, cafetorium, and covered portico.

 During the summer of 1989 the original school building was demolished to provide a shady, fenced playground east and south of the newly constructed school.   Bricks and dated plaques from the 1918 school building were used to design a small structure in front of the flagpole of the new Wilson School.

 Coach Jose Rolando Nava and five fifth grade students, during the 1990 - 1991 school year, carved an Indian totem pole and erected it in the portico to commemorate all WILSON WARRIORS.
 

    North Ward School Mural and 1920 Plaque                                   Indian Totem Pole