Julia A. Stark, daughter of William and Julia (Moore) Stark, was born in Noroton, Connecticut on June 2, 1865. Her teaching career in Stamford started at the Turn-of-River School. Her leadership and inspirational guidance in the community of Glenbrook began in a one-room school on Elm Place in 1888.

As a teacher and a principal, she saw the one-room school replaced by a four-room school on Crescent Street (Glenbrook School). Later, this building was enlarged to an eight-room school.

In 1927, in honor of one who had served the community well, the newly constructed school on Glenbrook Road was named the Julia A. Stark School.

A teacher who devoted nearly 50 years of teaching in Glenbrook schools, Julia A. Stark died in 1950 at the age of 85. Her motto was "My boys and girls are my flowers."

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Cornerstone Mission:
To ensure that all children reach an acceptable standard of literacy by third grade. To read, to write, to think critically, to reason, to analyze, and evaluate information, to communicate effectively in a variety of forms, and to inquire systematically into any matter.