On the basis ofthe archival material from Historical Archives of Ljubljana (mostly the funds of the primary school and the Community of Spodnja Šiška), the documentation from Slovene School Museum, the printed teachers registers and the newspapers, the article describes the common school (established in 1882) for Spodnja and Zgornja Šiška, in that time two village settlements in the neighbourhood of Ljubljana. Beside the changing of Spodnja Šiška into a suburb of Ljubljana, we follow the extension of the school, its development into the combined six-grade school which in 1912 was transformed into two eight-grade boys and girls elementary schools, till the end of the austrian period. The treatise also briefly introduces the advanced school for craft apprentices (est. 1911), the german private school (since 1906/07) and national-political conforntations in 1911.