{"id":455153,"date":"2026-09-06T05:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:48:23","slug":"dailard-elementary-in-san-carlos-celebrates-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455153\/","title":{"rendered":"Dailard Elementary in San Carlos celebrates 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dailard Elementary (Photo by Dorian Hargrove\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n

When Dailard Elementary first opened its doors to students in 1976, Jeanie Grant Moore quickly enrolled her two daughters.<\/p>\n

She lived, and still lives, only a block away from the San Carlos neighborhood school and was glad her daughters could now walk to school.<\/p>\n

That year, Grant Moore\u2019s youngest daughter entered first grade.<\/p>\n

Today, a half-century later, Grant Moore\u2019s great-granddaughter is now in first grade at Dailard.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting that it\u2019s been there for 50 years,\u201d she said. \u201cI can\u2019t even believe we\u2019ve been here for longer than 50 years in this house. But it kind of brings it all back, thinking about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dailard Elementary in San Carlos 50 years ago. Photo courtesy of Jeanie Grant Moore<\/p>\n

To honor Dailard Elementary\u2019s place in the San Carlos community, Grant Moore is now helping to organize a celebration for the school\u2019s semicentennial from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

The celebration is open to current and former Dailard students, teachers, staff, families and community members.<\/p>\n

The event program features student performances, the presentation of a time capsule and a timeline of old photos and yearbooks documenting the school\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Grant Moore dug up photos from the original dedication of the school, which is named after former San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Ralph Dailard.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lisa Moore, fifth grader and student council vice president, gives a brief speech to San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Ralph Dailard at the dedication of Dailard Elementary in the San Carlos neighborhood, 1976. Photo courtesy of Jeanie Grant Moore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said the same lectern she photographed at the dedication ceremony in 1976 will be used for speakers at the 50th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo in some ways, it has stayed a lot the same,\u201d Grant Moore said.<\/p>\n

The Dailard School Foundation, a parent-teacher organization that organizes fundraisers and events for the school, is the main group working on the event.<\/p>\n

Janine Zuniga, co-communications chair for the foundation, said she\u2019s hoping the semicentennial will allow former students to reconnect with one another and meet the younger generation of students and families.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really great community school,\u201d Zuniga said. \u201cThey really are focused on just making the best students, scholastically and all around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant Moore said the neighborhood owes a lot of its community feel to the elementary school.<\/p>\n

She said that when she moved to San Carlos in the 1970s, most of her neighbors had school-age children who walked to school and played in the streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a kind of lapse in that community feeling for a while because the kids got up to a certain age and moved away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now, I think that\u2019s returned. We just seem to have a lot more younger people in the neighborhood than we did for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dailard Elementary (Photo by Dorian Hargrove\/Times of San Diego) When Dailard Elementary first opened its doors to students…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6573,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-455153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-carlos","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}