Francis W. Parker School (San Diego)

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Francis Parker School
Established	1912
Type	Private
Grades	JK–12
Location	San Diego, California, USA
Mascot	Lancers
Newspaper	'The Scribe'
Website	www.francisparker.org

Francis Parker School, also known simply as Parker, is an independent day school in San Diego, California, serving students from junior kindergarten through twelfth grade. Parker was founded in 1912 by Clara Sturges Johnson and William Templeton Johnson, themselves recent arrivals to the West Coast. The Johnsons' nieces had attended the original Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, founded eleven years earlier, and sought to recreate the same progressive education standards at the original institution.^[1]

While the institutions are both named after Colonel Parker, the schools themselves differ in their day-to-day operation as well as the structure of institutions such as the student government.^[2]

The original Parker campus was established in 1912 at its current location in Mission Hills; a second campus, containing a middle and upper school, was established subsequently in Linda Vista. The upper school campus recently went through an extensive remodeling, to be followed by the middle school.

Parker's main academic rivals are The Bishop's School located in La Jolla and La Jolla Country Day School located in University City.