Bell Schedule: 9:15 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Katherine Williams, Principal
919-881-4960 - Main Office
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The school opened near Glenwood Avenue and Creedmoor Road in 1965, when Raleigh was seeing a wave of growth from families moving to the area to work at Research Triangle Park, especially IBM. New neighborhoods were creeping northward, away from downtown Raleigh to areas considered "suburbia". This was before Crabtree Valley Mall opened on Glenwood in 1972 and years before development and the Raleigh city limits pushed several miles north and west toward the Durham County line.
York Elementary is likely one of the oldest suburban schools in Raleigh, said Smedes York, who served as mayor from 1979 to 1983. The school is named for his father, James Wesley “Willie” York. The elder York served on the Raleigh school board when schools integrated in 1960, and local leaders named the school after him to honor his work, York said. The York family developed several neighborhoods near downtown, including the popular Cameron Village shopping center.
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