Berkeley Unified School District
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Berkeley Unified School District is the public school district
for the city of Berkeley, California
. Its administrative offices are located in Berkeley's old city hall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Center Street and Allston Way. As of 2009, the district is considering moving its offices into the old West Campus main building on University Avenue.
Closed
School district
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for the city of Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
. Its administrative offices are located in Berkeley's old city hall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Center Street and Allston Way. As of 2009, the district is considering moving its offices into the old West Campus main building on University Avenue.
Schools
- Berkeley Adult School
- Berkeley Alternative High School (opened Fall 2001; replaced East Campus, Berkeley High School)
- Berkeley High SchoolBerkeley High School (California)Berkeley High School is the only public high school in Berkeley, California. It is located one long block west of Shattuck Avenue and three short blocks south of University Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, and is recognized as a Berkeley landmark...
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School (Formally known as Garfield Middle)
- Longfellow Magnet Middle School
- Willard Middle School
- Berkeley Arts Magnet Elementary School at Whittier
- Cragmont Elementary School
- Emerson Elementary School
- Jefferson Elementary School
- John Muir Elementary School
- LeConte Elementary School
- Malcolm X Arts & Academics Magnet Elementary School (formerly Lincoln Elementary)
- Oxford Elementary School
- Rosa Parks Environmental Science Magnet Elementary School (formerly Columbus Elementary)
- Thousand Oaks Elementary School
- Washington Communication & Technology Elementary School
Closed
- Kellogg Primary School (1880–1910, Berkeley's second public school, located at Center and Oxford; Berkeley High School was located on the grounds from 1880–1900; after Kellogg closed, its buildings were rented to the California College of Arts and Crafts from 1911–1921; subsequently razed.)
- Burbank Jr. High School (closed 1968; remodeled and reopened as West Campus-Berkeley High School)
- East Campus, Berkeley High School (replaced McKinley Continuation School; closed after Spring 2001, replaced by Berkeley Alternative High School)
- Edison Junior High School (located on Russell at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, then called Grove Street; the buildings were still in use as a warehouse for the school district until recently)
- Hillside Elementary SchoolHillside Elementary SchoolHillside Elementary School is a now-closed public elementary school located in the hills of Berkeley, California. It sits on the block bounded by Le Roy Avenue, Buena Vista Way and La Loma Avenue. Hillside is registered as a local historic landmark...
(closed 1983) - Grizzly Peak Primary School (formerly Little Hillside Primary School) (closed 1981)
- Franklin Elementary School (closed 2002; re-opened as Berkeley Adult School; originally was the site of the oldest school in Berkeley, the Ocean View School, subsequently replaced by the San Pablo Avenue School, then Franklin).
- Lorin School
- McKinley Continuation School (closed 196?; building razed, site became part of the Rochdale Apartments student housing cooperativeUniversity Students' Cooperative AssociationBerkeley Student Cooperative is a student housing cooperative serving primarily the University of California, Berkeley but open to any full-time post-secondary student. BSC houses over 1300 students in 17 houses and 3 apartment buildings...
) - Rose Street School
- Tilden Primary School (formerly Cragmont Primary School) (closed 1981)
- University Elementary School (opened in 1922–23 at Rose and Walnut in the building formerly housing Garfield Junior High, and in later years, the site of the Berkeley Unified School District's headquarters building (now located in the old city hall).
- West Campus, Berkeley High School (closed 1986; became the site of the Berkeley Adult School until 2004)
See also
- List of school districts in Alameda County, California
- Berkeley Parents NetworkBerkeley Parents NetworkBerkeley Parents Network is an online forum for parents in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. Despite the name, the discussion board addresses issues in and around Berkeley, relevant to a far greater number of people than solely Berkeley parents...