William G. Stewart Elementary School

William G. Stewart Elementary School is a defunct elementary school, which formerly served the western portion of the small city of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, with public school pre-kindergarten through fifth and sixth grades. The institution was located at 215 North Middle Landing Road, a block north of common U.S. Highway 79 and U.S. Highway 80, known in Minden as the "Shreveport Road". It was one of four, since reduced to three, public elementary schools in Minden. Demolition of Stewart was undertaken in August 2011.

From its founding in 1949 until 1955, Stewart Elementary was known as West Side Elementary School.

Under an economic realignment plan, the Webster Parish School Board contracted for the razing of Stewart Elementatry in August 2011 after sixty-two years of use. The school was named for the farmer, deputy sheriff, police juror, and school board president, William Green Stewart, scion of a prominent Webster Parish family, who died in 1925. Like many of the early city leaders, William Stewart graduated from the former Minden Male Academy, a predecessor to Minden High School, which opened in 1901, and then the former Homer College in Homer in Claiborne Parish. Two U.S. representatives, John Watkins and John N. Sandlin, also graduated from the academy.

The companion school to Stewart on the eastern side of Minden is the still functioning E.S. Richardson Elementary School, named for educator and former Louisiana Tech University president E. S. Richardson, who died in 1950. Prior to Stewart and Richardson, elementary pupils had attended classes in the high school complex on College Street. Both schools were constructed through a bond issue approved by voters after World War II.

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