York Road Primary School

Our school was founded in 1850 by the Christian Instruction Society as the Plumstead Mission School (Plumstead was then still part of Wynberg). In 1852, our school was taken over by St John’s Anglican Church in Wynberg and was then called the St John’s EC School.  In 1925 the Department built a new building for the school in Broad Road. After the school moved there it became known as the Broad Road Primary School. In 1966 the school was served with an eviction notice in terms of the Group Areas Act of 1950, and in 1967 the school relocated to York Road in Lansdowne and changed its name to York Road Primary School.