Jefferson Elementary School District

Jefferson Elementary School District is a K-8 school district headquartered at 101 Lincoln Street in Daly City, San Mateo County, California, and serving Daly City, Colma, Broadmoor, and part of Pacifica. The district was established in 1866 and, as of 2006^[update], has some 350 teachers serving more than 6,700 students. The district has ten elementary schools and four intermediate/middle schools; high schools in the area are overseen by the Jefferson Union High School District.

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 located in the present day Colma area and was a one-room building constructed in 1856. In the following year a new school (named Jefferson School) was constructed on land donated by Peter Dunks. The school district was established in 1866 and named Jefferson School District. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School was founded in 1917 and rebuilt eighteen years later. 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 of Christopher Columbus, General John J. Pershing, Thomas Edison, Daniel Webster, the former US Presidents John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fernando Rivera and M. Pauline Brown. 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. Critic Allan Temko wrote in the Architectural Forum that "These schools appear with sudden brilliance: ... carefully suited, thoughtfully planned".

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