Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1897, 1876
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The special edition of the Outlook of July 6, 1897, relates that "the first school was called to order on Monday morning, March 6, 1876, in the little Presbyterian Church that then stood on the corner of Third Street and Arizona Avenue."