San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Photo Place.....Los Osos School ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com November 23, 2006, 11:57 pm Source: Discovering San Luis Obispo County Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/sanluisobispo/photos/losososs67gph.jpg Image file size: 83.7 Kb LOS OSOS SCHOOL History and Description: Los Osos School was founded in 1872, and is typical in design with past schools for grades one through six. In 1882, the records show the school having an enrollment of seventeen pupils, nine boys and eight girls. The Los Osos 5chool had its own state-appropriated funds. For the typical year of 1882, $178 was appropriated with an additional nineteen dollars for the library fund. Miss Meda Cole was the instructor in 1882, and the last teacher was Dorothy Jean Warren who is still teaching in the area. Miss Warren taught from 1949 to 1954. Approximately thirty years ago there was a male instructor holding the largest enrollment in the school's history of thirty students. The schoolhouse was apparently a well-built wooden school measuring twenty feet by forty-four feet, lacking only in fencing and shade trees. As late as 1917 there was still no sign of shade trees. The only additional building was a boy's and girl's rest-room added to the rear of the original building after the removal of the outhouse. Sources: Dorothy Jean Warren San Luis Obispo County 5chools History of San Luis Obispo County. Myron Angel; Published by Thompson &. West, 1883 Additional Comments: Extracted from Discovering San Luis Obispo County by Carleton M. Winslow File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sanluisobispo/photos/losososs67gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb