On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, two alumni of Lincoln Elementary School, Marvin Gibson and Alberto Leon, will be making a presentation to the S.B. Unified School District School Board to tell their story of walking to school at Lincoln, and what Lincoln School meant to them.
Lincoln Elementary School, 100 East Cota, was one of Santa Barbara’s oldest and longest-serving public institutions (more than 100 years: 1871-1979), established when there were no automobiles and when the stagecoach was the mode of travel to and from Santa Barbara.
A majority of Lincoln’s demographic were children of working-class Latino families, but there was a diverse population of White, Black, Pacific Island, Chinese, and Japanese families who attended Lincoln.