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This is a draft rewrite of the "History" section on the Edmund Burke School page.

History
Edmund Burke School was founded in 1968 by Roth and Mooskin, who met while teaching at another Washington private school, the Hawthorne School, which would close in 1982. Burke first opened in a building at 2107 Wyoming Avenue NW and initially enrolled 17 students. Elizabeth Ely, a teacher at Burke when it opened, left to found The Field School in 1972 ; the two schools later became athletic rivals. In 1971, Burke's growth prompted a move to 2120 Wyoming Avenue NW, and then in 1973 the school purchased 2955 Upton Street NW, which it later expanded to add a gymnasium and other facilities. Mooskin and Roth retired in 1999, and David Shapiro became the head of school. A new building, adjacent to and connected with the school's longtime home, opened in 2006. Shapiro retired in 2011 and was succeeded by Andrew Slater, who was succeeded by Damian Jones in 2014.