Sara Curry (1863 – March 11, 1940) was a late-19th/early-twentieth century teacher in the US known for founding The Little Missionary's Day Nursery. The school, founded in Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1896, provided immigrant families of the day with a day-care option to allow both parents to seek employment and thus bolstered the economy of the region. In recognition of her efforts, local residents came to call Curry "The Little Missionary", and the school was formally renamed as The Little Missionary's Day Nursery on her retirement. The school remains open to the present day. It is the oldest continuously operated non-denominational pre-school in New York City. The nursery was renamed Little Missionary's DayNursery/Sara Curry Preschool in 2005, in order to avoid the image of a sectaria