Public School 16
In 1871, a plot of land was acquired in the neighborhood of Tompkinville on Monroe Avenue. This land was used as the site of Public School 16. In 1916, the school was named the Henry W. Slocum school, after an American Civil War General. The building was replaced in the first half of the twentieth century and was renamed the John J. Driscoll School. Driscoll was the school's principal from 1891 until his death in 1930. The address for Public School 16 is 8 Monroe Avenue.
Children from pre-kindergarten all the way up to the fifth grade are taught at Public School 16. There are classes for special education and for students learning English as a second language. P.S. 16 also has a number of artistic classes: Band, Dance, Chorus, Photography, Theater, and Visual Arts.