In September 1927, Mrs. Edward B. Stanwood, a close friend of Sarah Dix Hamlin, as well as a member of her faculty, became the new principal of the school. Mrs. Stanwood bought one of the Flood mansions, which had been built by James L. Flood and later given by Miss Jennie Flood to the University of California. Under Mrs. Stanwood’s guidance, the Sarah Dix Hamlin School moved to its current site on Broadway.