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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



1880 

 1881 

 1882 

 1883, 

 1884 

 1885. 

 1886 

 1887, 

 1888. 

 1889, 

 1890. 

 1891, 

 1892. 



1893. 

 1894, 



1895' 



SCHOOL 



CENSUS 



133 

 139 

 160 

 274 



363 



460 



844 

 2033 

 1776 

 1388 

 I4I2 

 1739 

 1835 

 2043 



2413 



ENROLLMENT 



61 



85 

 117 



222 



278 



394 



703 



1354 



1687 



1427 



1437 

 1469 

 1644 

 1862 



AVERAGE 

 DAILY 



ATTENDANCE 



40 



54 



76 



100 



155 

 205 



254 

 446 

 849 



1 133 

 1036 



1059 

 1 108 

 1 167 

 1352 



TRUSTEES 



6 



6 



4 



5 



10 



5 

 4 



4 



1^3 

 112 



154 

 158 



PATRONS 



30 



60 



52 



50 



46 



161 



121 



128 



800 



700 



1840 



97S 



IIIO 



1243 

 648 



SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 



The Grant school was originally built at the corner of Colorado street 

 and Allen Avenue, and afterward moved to its present location on Bandini 

 Avenue. In 1884 the first school building was erected at North Pasadena, 

 with two rooms, and seating capacity for seventy-four pupils, at a cost of 

 $1,200 — and was called the "Lincoln School"; but when the present fine 

 nine-room building superseded it and was named " Washington School," 

 the name " Lincoln " was transferred to the eight-room building on Walnut 

 street which had previously been called the "Wilson Primary School." In 

 1888 a one-room school building costing $700, with capacity for twenty-five 

 pupils, was erected at Linda Vista by the Land Company operating there, 

 and named the "Jackson School." For two years it was provided with a 

 teacher by the district board, but in 1891 a special tax for it was voted 

 down, and no teacher has been sent there since. 



The school census for 1894, as compiled by Secretary F. P. Boynton, 

 shows a remarkable increase over the preceding year, as follows : 



No. of white children between 5 and 17, 1981 ; same last year, 18 11. 

 No. of negro children between 5 and 17, 62 ; same last year, 24 ; total 

 number of children between 5 and 17, 2043 ; same last year, 1835. No. of 



*The school census of 1895 showed 3068 native-born children ; 117 foreign-born ; and 591 children 

 who had not attended any school, either public or private, during the school year. 



ffhe furnishing is not included in these figures. 



t" The fine new flag purchased bv the pupils of the Wilsou School was hoisted to the flag-staff for 

 the first time on Wednesday, by Miss Mamie Thompson, granddaughter of " old John Brown, Ossawat- 

 amie Brown. "—Pasadena Standard, June i, i8Sg. 



(iSee article on "Bandini Avenue" lor explanation of how it happens to be called Michigan 

 Avenue. 



