Please share photos, stories and short remembrances of your time spent at the original Leslie Junior High School building on Howard Street with us!
We’re making a documentary video and you’re invited to help!
Bond-funded improvements and expansions at South Salem High School include replacing the original Leslie Junior High School building with modern classrooms and performing arts spaces that will be built to a higher seismic standard.
The old Leslie Junior High School building first opened to serve students in 1927. In 1997, the current Leslie Middle School opened at its location on Pringle Road and the old Leslie building served as the home of Howard Street Charter School until 2019.
Over the decades, thousands from our community have passed through the halls of the old Leslie Junior High School building, including many who would later become leaders on both state and national levels.
Salem-Keizer Public Schools is producing a documentary video to memorialize the old Leslie Junior High School building, and invites the community to submit photos, stories and short remembrances of their time spent in the building or at Leslie Swimming Pool. These contributions will be considered for inclusion in the documentary video.
Leslie Memories Submission Form
To share your memories of the Leslie Junior High building, please use the form below.
Thank You!
If you would like to send materials through postal mail, please mail copies to (please don’t send originals as they can’t be returned):
Leslie Memorial Project
Salem-Keizer Public Schools
Community Relations & Communications
2450 Lancaster Dr. NE
Salem, OR 97305
Thank you for contributing to the Leslie Junior High School Memorial Documentary!
In the meantime, if you have questions about this project, please email us at info@salkeiz.k12.or.us