Porterville High School
In 1922, following the voting of the bonds in 1921 (after an unsuccessful attempt in 1920) - the plant included the 350-foot (110 m) main building (shaped like a letter E with its back to the north); southeast of that gymnasium (which burned down and was rebuilt in 1933) with the addition of a basketball court; and south of the gym, a building for the shops (woodwork, ironwork, and auto-mechanics and for the agricultural classes; and south of the shops, at the care-taker's residence (the only wooden building, the others being reinforced concrete) which had been the home of the former owner Mr. A. Kennedy) of the 20-acre (81,000 m2) tract, across the south end of which was the athletic field.The athletics field building for boys' changing rooms and equipment was built in 1934 which was enclosed with an iron fence.From February 1920, the following districts were added to the union: Burton, Citrus-South Tule (united since 1920, South Tule having already annexed La Motte); Ducor (which since then took over Fountain Springs and part of Wheatland, California); Hope; Olive; Orange: Pleasant View; Rockford, California; Vincent; and later in the same year, Springville (now a union including Dennison joining PHS in 1930 --, Mountain View, Mount Whitney and North Tule); Sausalito, in January 1921; Terra Bella in 1924 (now a union including Deer Creek, Grand View Heights, and Zion, California) joining PUHS in May 1930.These are the fifteen districts of the Porterville Union High School in 1938; but before so much consolidation they numbered some 24.Porterville Union High School and Junior College, in which the addition of a junior college did not change the extent of the district but admitted junior college students from Strathmore, Lindsay, Exeter and Tulare high schools, for which the county pays, chargeable to the districts, the overhead cost for the students (something over $100 per student).