Oriental Public School

Gordon J. Lau Elementary School (simplified Chinese: 刘贵明小学; traditional Chinese: 劉貴明小學), founded as the Chinese School and was once named Oriental Public School, was a public school located in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. It was initially set up in 1859 as a segregated school for schoolchildren of Chinese (and later Japanese and Korean) descent, part of the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States that arose in the late 1800s. The school has been renamed a number of times, most recently in 1998 to its current name in honor of the city's first Chinese-American supervisor.