Jefferson Grammar School- Historical Sketch-from the SF MUNI Report 1879-80 This school is located on Geary street, between Pierce and Scott streets, in a large three-story wooden building, containing twelve pleasant rooms. It is a mixed school for boys and girls, and contains eight hundred and sixty-eight pupils, including about one hundred in outside rooms. The school was opened in its present building on a primary school on the 5th of July, 1875, and was composed of the pupils transferred from the Pine Street Primary, the Tyler Street Primary, and from the grammar schools of the city. It was declared a grammar school July 18, 1876, and was named "Jefferson Grammar School," February 4, 1879. The school from which this school receives its origin was first opened as the Pine Street Primary School, on Pine street near Scott street in October ,1865. The following teachers have been Principals of this school: Miss L. A. PRITCHARD, elected October, 1865 Miss Ellen CUSHING, elected May 10, 1870 Miss M. J. HALL, elected August 1, 1871 W. A. ROBERTSON, elected June 13, 1876 -------------------------- Carolyn http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/