Editing Keizer, Oregon (section)

==Education==
Keizer is part of the [[Salem-Keizer School District]] and has one high school: McNary, two middle schools: Claggett Creek and Whiteaker, and seven elementary schools: Clear Lake, Cummings, Forest Ridge, Gubser, Keizer, Kennedy and Weddle.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.salkeiz.k12.or.us/content/elementary-schools |title= Elementary Schools |publisher= Salem Keizer Public Schools |access-date=February 20, 2010}}</ref>

The first schoolhouse in the Keizer area was built in 1878, and its first teacher was Nina McNary, older sister of U.S. Senator [[Charles L. McNary]].<ref name=OldSchool>{{cite web |url= http://www.wvi.com/~heritage/history.html |title= Our History |publisher= Keizer Heritage Foundation |access-date= February 20, 2010 |archive-date= July 16, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145244/http://www.wvi.com/~heritage/history.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> The first school was torn down in 1915 and replaced in 1916 with the building that now serves as the Keizer Heritage Community Center.<ref name=OldSchool/> By the 1980s, the 1916 Keizer Elementary School was judged unsafe and a new school was built in 1987.<ref name=OldSchool/> Cummings School was built in 1953 to serve the area's growing population.<ref name=OldSchool/> In 1955, Keizer School District #88 and Salem School District # 24CJ merged to form the Salem Keizer School District.<ref name=OldSchool/>