| Jefferson Elementary School District | |
|---|---|
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| Address | |
101 Lincoln Avenue Daly City ,California,94015United States | |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | K–8 |
| Established | 1866 |
| Superintendent | Sandy Mikulik |
| Governing agency | Board of Education |
| Schools | 1 K-8, 10 Elementary, 3 Middle |
| NCES District ID | 0618870[1] |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 5,597 (2020–2021)[1] |
| Teachers | 267.53 (FTE)[1] |
| Staff | 232.77 (FTE)[1] |
| Student–teacher ratio | 20.92:1[1] |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
Jefferson Elementary School District is a K-8 school district headquartered inDaly City,San Mateo County,California, USA, serving the communities of Daly City,Colma,Broadmoor and part ofPacifica.
The district was established in 1866[2] and, as of 2019[update], has some 350 teachers serving 6,000 students. The district has ten elementary schools and four intermediate/middle schools;[3] high schools in the area are overseen by theJefferson Union High School District. More than 20 different languages are spoken by students in the school district.[4]
The district is overseen by a five member elected Board of Education[5] and an appointed Superintendent.[4]
Before the district's inception, parents in Daly City had to send their children to schools in the San Francisco region. The first school was in the present day Colma area and was a one-room building constructed in 1856.[2] In the following year a new school (namedJefferson School) was constructed on land donated byPeter Dunks. The school district was established in 1866 and named Jefferson School District afterThomas Jefferson.[2][6]
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School was founded in 1917 and rebuilt eighteen years later. General Pershing School, built in 1917, was remodeled in 1960.[7] Colma Primary and Colma Intermediate Schools were established in 1951, followed by Westlake School in 1952 and Benjamin Franklin in the subsequent year. By the end of the decade, three new schools, Olympia (1955), Vista Mar, and Vista Grande (both 1958), had been opened. The 1960s witnessed the establishment of schools named in honor ofChristopher Columbus,General John J. Pershing,Thomas Edison,Daniel Webster, the former US PresidentsJohn F. Kennedy,Abraham Lincoln, andFranklin D. Roosevelt, Fernando Rivera and M. Pauline Brown. Ben Franklin Intermediate School was constructed in Broadmoor on land that had been intended for a street.[8]
By 1972, the district had 21 schools under its supervision enrolling a total of 9,373 pupils and with a cumulative faculty of 462 teachers. Vista Grande school was demolished later.[9] CriticAllan Temko wrote in theArchitectural Forum that "These schools appear with sudden brilliance: ... carefully suited, thoughtfully planned".[9]
William J. Savage served as superintendent of the district from 1918 to 1931. Prior to this appointment, he was principal of Jefferson School.[10] In 2011, Matteo Rizzo retired from the post of superintendent.[11]
| Superintendent | Tenure |
|---|---|
| William J. Savage | 1898 – 1931[10] |
| Richard Crane | 1931 – 1949[10] |
| James Snell | 1949 – 1951[10] |
| Henry S. Weibel | 1951 – 1959[10] |
| Richard Foster | 1959 – 1965[10] |
| Frank L. Greenwood | 1965 – 1973[10] |
| Barbara Wilson | 2002 - 2007 |
| Matteo Rizzo | 2008 - 2011 |
| Bernardo Vidales | 2011–2023 |
| Sandy Mikulik | 2023–Present |
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