Torrance School

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Torrance School, also called Torrance High School Annex and originally Torrance Elementary School, sits on the Torrance High School campus in Torrance, California. The first Torrance School Main Building opened in 1917 and housed both elementary and high school students. In 1923 the Torrance Elementary School building opened on the campus’s southern side, and the original main building was turned into a high school. In 1963 a new elementary school was built off campus; that building was later annexed to Torrance High School and renamed the Torrance High School Annex.

The annex building was built between 1923 and 1925 in the Renaissance Revival style and is connected to the rest of the campus by a long curved arcade with center pillars in a Modernist design. The Torrance elementary schools were in the Los Angeles City School District until 1947, when they joined the Torrance Unified School District in 1948. In 1947 the Los Angeles City School District removed the furniture from Torrance schools.

The Torrance School Annex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is one of four NRHP-listed buildings on the Torrance High School campus.