Worthington Hooker School (WHS) is a public elementary and middle school in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the New Haven Public Schools district and is named after former Yale University professor and physician Dr. Worthington Hooker (1806–1867). It serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade in two separate buildings for its elementary and middle school provision.
The school also reports the highest achievement of the city's K-8 public schools.Melissa Bailey, Still “The Site We Want”, The New Haven Independent, June 28, 2006
The original school building at 180 Canner Street, which now houses the lower school, was erected in 1900. It currently houses kindergarten through grade 2. As this school building was not large enough to encompass all nine grades, grades 3-8 were formerly located in the former Saint Stanislaus School building at 804 State Street. As of summer 2007, renovations of the main school building had been completed Worthington Hooker School Renovation, New Haven City Schools Construction websiteVincent Vitkowsky, A Showpiece Reopens, $12.9M Spiffier, The New Haven Independent, April 30, 2007 and efforts were under way to build a new school building for the middle school on nearby Whitney Avenue.New Worthington Hooker School, New Haven City Schools Construction website Planned construction of the new middle school was delayed for several years due to opposition by neighbors who objected to the use of "spot zoning" to allow construction of a school in a residential neighborhood and sued to block the project. An August 2007 unanimous decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court allowed the project to proceed, based on a finding that the city had not abused its zoning authority.Melissa Bailey, State Supreme Court OKs Hooker School, The New Haven Independent, August 6, 2007 The new middle school building for grades 3 through 8 was completed in 2009 at a cost of $36.5 million and officially opened on December 21, 2009.Thomas MacMillan, Kids Walk To School; No Calamities Reported, New Haven Independent, December 21, 2009
The 180 Canner Street building is a contributing property in the Whitney Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. and (captions pages 60-62 of text document). Worthington Hooker School is the first photo in the photo collection.
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