In the 1960s the US was dealing with the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Louisville High School decided that they needed a lot more space to make room for the growing rates of students attending the school, so they decided to come up with a construction project that would add onto the southwest and northeast part of the school.
The first part of the construction added a new music room in the lower level of the school, which added a lot more space for the growing band, along with a place to store instruments and music, and 3 more classrooms. With these new classrooms came new class opportunities. It added a family living class to help both guys and girls learn how to cook, auto mechanics, architectural drawing (this class would be removed years later and not come back until the 2025-2026 year as fashion and interior design), metals, welding, electricity, and woodworking for beginning and advanced students.
In 1971, a cafeteria was finished, meaning now school lunch was added to Louisville (before students packed a lunch or left school grounds to go eat at home). Also, they built many more classrooms. The recently built classrooms made room for six new math classes and two science labs, which were made out of the old workshop. It was divided into two rooms so students and teachers could become more independent with their work.
Scott Rice, a Louisville alumnus and current teacher, talked about the school while he was a student, “When I got here in sixth grade, the gym was only like three years old. All this is part of the school; everything from the ramp over this way [everything towards the high school office] is new, like the locker room door that used to come outside.
In the 1980s, the school completed the new gym, making it ready for use. As a result, volleyball, basketball, and PE classes could now be held in both gyms. Track and baseball were still held outside the school,
“I like the new addition, but not having a baseball field, though, it's kind of weird. Always remember being down there. The bleachers are nice. I mean, it's just that it's upgraded so much from when I was here. . . we didn't have an asphalt track. It was just some dirt,” Rice said.
The track field was made out of only dirt, and the baseball field sat right behind the school.
While the school was still under construction, the students had to adapt to the construction going on around them as well as the new classrooms to find.