Scope and Content: The State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  From 1879 oversight of the school was vested in the Trustees of the State Primary and Reform Schools (St 1879, c 291, s 8; St 1880, c 208)–succeeding the school’s Board of Inspectors; they fixed State Primary School rules and regulations, placed inmates out of the school with families, and transferred to the school inmates from the State Reform School and the State Industrial School.  Series records decisions made at monthly meetings transmitted to the school superintendent and transcribed at the school for him.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by meeting date
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