Spring Valley Primary School, Historical Sketch, SF Muni Report 1879-80 (this school is the oldest continuously operating public school in California) http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch834/Index.html ---- This school is located on Union street, between Franklin and Gough streets, in a one-story wooded building containing five poorly arranged rooms. The present attendance is two hundred and sixty-six pupils. The school was first opened under our present system of free schools, on the 9th of February, 1852, in an old wooden church on the site of the present building. It was first organized as a Grammar School , but in 1866 the grammar and most of the primary pupils were transferred to the Spring Valley Grammar School, on Broadway, near Polk street. It was then reopened as a Primary School. Principals of this school since it was reorganized as a Primary School: Miss H. A. HANECKE, elected March, 1866 Miss P. A. FINK, elected September, 25, 1866 Miss J. M . A. HURLEY, elected November, 1867 --------------------- Carolyn