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First established in 1881. this elementary school moved a few years later to its present site. which was then called Cottage Street. In 1914 the school took its name after John Elliot. past president of Yale University. Not long after that the street was named after its most important buildinga place of fundamental learning which helped to educate the children of Irish. Italian. and more recently Hispanic immigrants. As its role has changed several times over the yearsat one time it functioned as a center for visually impaired children. and then it became a school for musicit has remained a place of steady enlightenment for generations of Newarkers. Next Thursday Elliot Street Schools principal.