In the 1960s the Prečko neighbourhood had around 3,500 residents. As it had no school of its own, children from the neighbourhood attended school in nearby Špansko. When the motorway was built it separated Prečko from Špansko, and building a school in Prečko became unavoidable, both because of the number of children and for the safety of its young residents. On Monday, 2 November 1970, the doors of the new school building opened for 23 classes from year 1 to year 8, with 735 pupils and 29 teachers. In the 1974/75 school year the school was named “Marshal Tito” Primary School, a name it kept until 27 April 1992, when it was renamed Prečko Primary School. The school worked in three shifts and had 1,200 pupils in 37 classes and 6 after-school groups. In only five years the number of pupils had almost doubled because of the rapid urbanisation of Prečko. At that time the Prečko local community was one of 13 local communities in the Trešnjevka municipality. With 7,700 residents it made up 7% of the total population of the largest municipality in the city of Zagreb. When the new Prečko-West Primary School (today’s Nikola Tesla Primary School) was completed, our school was relieved as pupils and staff were divided between them. However, the number of pupils gradually rose again as the new neighbourhoods of Vrbani and Staglišće, which had no school of their own, were settled. From April 1992, when the war also intensified in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 93 displaced and refugee pupils joined our classes. Pupils from war-ravaged Vukovar, Slunj, Kostajnica and Bosnia found a place in our school. By a decision of the Ministry of Education and the City Office for Education and Sport, a new school network was drawn up under which, from the 1993/94 school year, classes for pupils with organically conditioned behavioural difficulties were set up at Prečko Primary School.