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David G. Farragut Elementary School

David G. Farragut Elementary School, also known as The Farragut School, was a public elementary school located at 10 Fenwood Road, in the Mission Hill district of Boston, Massachusetts, just off of Huntington Avenue. [1] The school was located next to the Fenwood Road trolley-train stop on the "E" branch of the MBTA's Green Line and Brigham and Women's Hospital. [2]

The Farragut School opened in early 1904 [3] and closed in 2011 amidst a restructuring of the Boston Public Schools. [4] At the time of its closure, the school served students from Kindergarten through Grade 5 [5] and had around 15 teachers overseeing 230 students. [6] The school served an approximate population of more than 25,000 people. [7]

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  1. ^ "Farragut". Education.com. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  2. ^ Farragut School to the left
  3. ^ "New Subjects. Educational Centres Will Have Them". Boston Daily Globe. 3 January 1904. p. 27.
  4. ^ Vaznis, James; Anderson, Travis (17 December 2010). "Parents begin hunt for new schools". Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Volunteer Opportunity - Farragut School (Boston, MA)". My Simmos.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  6. ^ "Farragut Elementary School". Zillow.com. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  7. ^ "Farragut Elementary School". Public School Review. Retrieved 2009-01-27.

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