Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 8

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

I hope to show Then and Now images of Oakland Schools in this series of posts. I highlight a bit of the history of each school. Some photos are in the form of drawings or postcards or from the pages of history books.

Note: Piecing together the history of some of the older schools can be tricky. I do this all at home and online—a work in progress for some. I have been updating my posts when I find something new. Let me know if I make any mistakes or add anything.

Fruitvale Schools 1-3

UPDATED AUGUST 2024

“Fruit vale Public School” – Latter Fruitvale No. 1

**Fruitvale School, in the early 1880s, was situated on the field. Circa 1880s OMCA H97.1.48**

From what I can tell, the school was in the exact general location of Fruitvale Elementary School today, at the corner of Boston Street and School Street.

New Life as Church

1896, after Fruitvale No. 1 was built, the old school was moved and remodeled for use as a church. It was re-dedicated as the Higgins Methodist Episcopal Church in March of 1896.

The Fruit Vale (as it was sometimes spelled) School district was formed in 1889 to build a new schoolhouse.

Fruitvale No. 1 – Fruitvale Elementary School

In 1894, in the Fruitvale School district, the trustees were forced to meet the demand and take steps to build a larger school. The new school replaced the old Fruitvale School building from the 1880s.

The plans called for a $13,000 2-story building with a concrete basement. Each floor was to have four large classrooms and lunchrooms for the teachers. The principal’s office was on the first floor, and a space was reserved for a library. The basement had separate playrooms for the boys and girls, janitor rooms, and a heating apparatus.

“The building cost was $16,000, and it is located in the healthiest spots of this healthy locality.”

SF Call August 27, 1895

The style of the new building was the Italian Renaissance. The architects were Cunningham Bros. of Oakland.

The pastures of the Empire Dairy surrounded the school from 1880-1901

In 1913, Fruitvale School No. 1 was changed to just Fruitvale School.

New School Built

The new Fruitvale School was dedicated on December 1, 1950. It has 14 classrooms, a library, a cafeteria, a kindergarten, and an auditorium. The school was designed by Ponsford and Price Architects and cost $497,700. It can accommodate 569 students.

The dedication was attended by William Taylor, a long-time resident of the Fruitvale District; he was a student at the “old Fruitvale School “in the 1880s. Oakland Tribune June 1962

Fruitvale School website – OUSD

Fruitvale School No. 2 – Hawthorne School

In 1898, the Fruitvale District determined a need for another school to accommodate the growing population.

D. Franklin Oliver, a local architect, designed the new school.

In 1905, the school added nine more rooms.

In 1913, the name of Fruitvale School No. 2 was changed to Hawthorne School. The school was on Fruitvale at East 17th (Tallant Street)

**Hawthorne School Circa 1900 – Cheney Photo Advertising**

1923, a concrete culvert was built, and Sausal Creek was filled in.

School Destroyed by Fire in 1923

On the morning of April 30, 1923, 750 pupils, teachers, and staff of the Hawthorne School were evacuated from their classrooms while the entire upper portion of the building was being destroyed by fire. The fire was believed to have started from sparks that fell from the chimney.

Three alarms were sounded, and all available firefighting apparatus rushed to the scene. Two firemen were hurt when a portion of the burning roof gave way.

New School Built

The district purchased the property fronting on East 17th Street, adjoining the playground. The new school was built away from the noise and traffic of Fruitvale Ave.

In September 1924, they laid the cornerstone of the new school building, which John J. Donovan designed. The two-story building, which cost $102,000, contained ten classrooms, offices, and a room for the PTA.

The new school is located at 28th Avenue at East 17th Street, across from the old Fruitvale School No 2. The old school building was destroyed by fire the year before.

The following items were put into the sealed cornerstone:

Minutes of Board of Education May 1924
Minutes of Board of Education June 1924
Outline of the school plans
Program from Cornerstone ceremony
History of the PTA
Names of all the pupils enrolled
Group photos of all the classes.
School Directory

The new school opened in January 1925.

The school is located at 1700 28th Ave, Oakland, CA 94601

Hawthorne Today

Today, Hawthorne is the home of the Achieve Academy.

Achieve Academy (TK-5) serves students in the Fruitvale neighborhood and is one of Oakland’s highest-performing elementary campuses.

**Hawthorne School -photo by Richard A. Walker Creative Commons 2023**

Fruitvale No. 3 – Allendale School

Before 1904, children living along High Street had to walk to Fruitvale School No. 1 on School Street. The Allendale District was chosen because of its central location for the children from Laurel Grove District (Laurel District) to High Street and Foothill Blvd, then known as Old County Road.

**Fruitvale School No. 3** was built in the **Allendale** neighborhood in 1904.

The 1904 school building cost $107,437 to build. The first year’s enrollment was 809. A four-room addition was added in 1910, and another four rooms, costing $49,458, were added in 1928.

Miss Alice V. Baxley was the first principal of Allendale School from 1904 to 1913.

**Fruitvale No 3 –**
**Renamed Allendale 1913**

In 1913 Fruitvale No. 3 was renamed Allendale School.

Dangerous and a Hazard

The school was deemed unsafe and closed in 1953. At the time, it was one of the oldest school buildings; two others from the pre-1906 era were still standing. The old school building withstood the 1906 earthquake.

Seventeen portables were placed on the site to house the students until the fall of 1959.

**The Old Allendale School Just Before Demolition – From the Family of Doss Welsh**

The day of reckoning has come for the old Allendale School building which has been razed”

Oakland Tribune Jul 14, 1957

New School Built

Architects George E. Ellinger and Roland Gibbs proposed a new school to cost $363,250.

Bids for a new school with 13 classrooms, a library, a multipurpose room, one kindergarten, and administration offices opened in 1958.

The school was completed in the fall of 1959.

Allendale Today

Allendale School Website – OUSD

Fruitvale – Allendale Junior High

**Tulare Advance-Register** **Oct 26, 1928**

The new school, Allendale-Fruitvale Junior High, was constructed at Hopkins (MacArthur Blvd) and Coolidge Avenue.

The Allendale-Fruitvale Junior High was changed to Bret Harte Junior High at a school board meeting in 1929; the other name under consideration was Dimond Junior High.

The school was named after Bret Harte, an American author and poet best known for his somewhat romanticized accounts of pioneer life in California. He lived in Oakland from about 1854 to 1857 at the home of his stepfather, Colonel Andrew F. Williams, who was later Oakland’s fourth mayor.

Oakland Tribune Nov 16, 1930

The school was the last to the new school to be built out of the 1924 Bond issue. It was constructed at the cost of $120,000.

The building contained 22 classrooms, and on opening day in 1930, 699 pupils enrolled. The school graduated students from Fruitvale, Allendale, Sequoia, and Laurel Schools.

The school opened in 1930.

**The Oakland Post Enquirer Jan** **10, 1930**

The school’s auditorium gymnasium building was constructed in 1950.

**The Oakland Post Enquirer Aug 2, 1950**

In 1957, the school district opened bids for a new building at Bret Harte.

The new building was built on campus in 1959, and another major expansion occurred in 1979.

The 1930 time capsule in a copper box found during the 1979 construction was never opened and has since been lost.

The school is located at 3700 Coolidge Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602

Bret Harte Middle School – Today

Bret Harte Middle School – website

More Info:

New Addition for Allendale School – SF Call and Post Aug 7, 1905
Fruitvale School Name Changes – Oakland Tribune Aug 26, 1913
750 Children Marched from Burning School – Oakland Tribune Apr 30, 1923
Hawthorne School Burns – Oakland Tribune Apr 30, 1923
A Narrow Escape – School burns – Oakland Tribune May 01, 1923
New Hawthorne School to be Built – Oakland Tribune Sept 04, 1923
Cornerstone at Hawthorne – Oakland Tribune Sept 23, 1924
New Hawthorne School Opens – Oakland Tribune Jan 24, 1925
Hawthorne Soccer Champs for 1927 – Oakland Tribune Dec 19, 1926
Bret Harte Competition – Oakland Tribune Apr 10, 1932
New $497,700 Fruitvale School – Oakland Tribune Dec 01, 1950
Allendale School Razed – Oakland Tribune Jun 21, 1957

The End

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 7

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

In this series of posts, I hope to show Then and Now images Oakland Schools. Along with a bit of history of each school, I highlight. Some of the photos are in the form of drawings or postcards, or from the pages of history books.

Note: Piecing together the history of some of the older schools is sometimes tricky. I do this all at home and online — a work in progress for some. I have been updating my posts when I find something new. Let me know of any mistakes or additions.

Updated Jan 12, 2020

Manzanita Grammar School

In 1909 the Board of Education annexed the Fruitvale and Melrose School Districts. More on the history of annexation in Oakland.

The first school to open was Manzanita Grammar School, located on 26th Street between 24th and 25th.

The 2-story building with 8 classrooms, a principal’s office, teachers’ locker room, library, and a kitchen was designed by F.D. Voorhees and cost $23,000.

In 1920 there was a gas explosion in the basement of the school.

Manzanita Annex

**Oakland Tribune Jan 1926**
**Best Copy I could Get**

In January of 1926, the board of education accepted the plans for an annex to be added to the building already on the site. The new structure will cost $70,000.

In September of 1926, it was determined that the (new) Manzanita Annex that was more than halfway done was unsafe. The concrete work was entirely defective, and to make the building safe for occupancy, they had to remove the entire structure above the foundation.

The Alameda County Grand Jury was asked to investigate the faulty construction of the $70,000 school building.

New School Dedicated

A dedication ceremony was held in January of 1927 for the new $70,000 Manzanita School Annex at 24th Avenue and E.26th. The Mission style edifice had 8 classrooms and kindergarten and a restroom for teachers.

The new building adjoined the old school building.

In 1956 it was proposed that the 46-year-old 3-story building would be replaced with a new school building.

In 1958 bids were accepted to demolish the old school built-in 1909.

The new building was designed by Donald S. Mackey architect, and it contained 15 classrooms, 1 kindergarten, 1 special education room, a cafeteria, a library, and offices.

The new building was dedicated in September 1958

Manzanita Today

Manzanita is located at 2409 East 27th Street, Oakland.

Manzanita Community School (MCS) is a small school located in the heart of the Fruitvale neighborhood. Our bilingual program is K-3. We are one of the most diverse schools in OUSD.

Manzanita Community School – website

More Info:

Taking Over District – Oakland Tribune Jan 02, 1910
Manzanita Grammar School to Open – Oakland Tribune Jan 1910
Gas Explosion – Oakland Tribune 1920
New School Unsafe – Oakland Tribune Sept 04, 1926
Builder of School to Blame – Oakland Tribune Sept 04, 1926
Grand Jury Probe – Oakland Tribune Sept 15, 1926
Bidding Open for new School – Oakland Tribune May 27, 1957

Maxwell Park School

I am sorry to say I haven’t been too lucky with finding pictures of the first school or older pictures of the present school. Hopefully, someone might have some to share.

Maxwell Park School was established in August of 1924, in a single portable shack. It was then a part of Horace Mann School. There were 108 students registered that first year.

In April 1925, preliminarily plans for a new Maxwell Park school were approved.

In 1925 it became a separate school, with Miss. Sue Dunbar as the principal and a faculty of four teachers.

In January of 1926, a new six-room structure was dedicated.

I haven’t found any picture of the first school.

Additions are added

The new addition was complete, and they eliminated the need for the portables, for now.

More construction in 1936

The school is located at 4730 Fleming Avenue, Oakland

Maxwell Park Now

Melrose Leadership Academy now uses the school. It is a dual immersion school in the form of bilingual education; Website

Elizabeth Sherman Elementary School

Sherman Elementary School is located in Maxwell Park The site close to Mills College.

In 1931 a new auditorium was dedicated. The auditorium was called “Little Theater,” and it consisted of two portables joined together to make one. There was a stage built at one end.

Named After

Sherman Elementary was named after Elizabeth Sherman (September 5, 1859 – June 27, 1937) was a long-time educator in Oakland in 1931.

In 1887 she was teaching at Lafayette Elementary School By 1907, she was the principal of the school. She retired from teaching in 1928.

New School

In 1956 architects Foulkes and Dennis drew up the plans for a structure to serve 325 students.

The new unit included an administration office, library, eight classrooms, one kindergarten, one special ed classroom, and a music room. They continued to use the auditorium built-in 1936.

The ground was broken for the new school in May of 1957, and the students moved in February 1958. A formal dedication was in April 1958.

Sherman Today

The school is located at 5328 Brann St.

Today Melrose Leadership Academy and Urban Montessori share the campuses at Maxwell Park and Sherman.

Urban Montessori Charter School (UMCS) opened in the fall of 2012 and became Oakland’s first public Montessori school.

Urban Montessori Charter School – website

Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA) is a public school that emphasizes leadership development and focuses on social justice in partnership with our families

Melrose Leadership – website

More Info:

Elizabeth Sherman – Oakland Local Wiki
Site cleared -Ground Breaking – Oakland Tribune May 26, 1957
Moving Day – Oakland Tribune Feb 09, 1958

Webster Elementary School

The Daniel Webster School is located at the large lot bounded by Plymouth, Olive, and 81st and 82ns Streets in East Oakland. The school over the years shorten the name to just Webster School.

The school opened in 1922 with just 4 classrooms, 200 students, and plenty of room to grow.

The construction of a 14 room addition and an auditorium to the school was to begin in July of 1925.

Below is how the school looked in 1925.

Webster Today

The school is located at 8000 Birch St.

The Webster Elementary School site hosts the East Oakland Pride Elementary. A TK-5 school in the Arroyo Viejo neighborhood, situated on the old Webster Academy campus. We offer both Spanish-English bilingual and English-only programs in K-2; upper grades are taught in English.

More Info:

School Dedicated – Oakland Tribune Jan 25, 1922
School Addition – Oakland Tribune June 1925
East Oakland Pride – Website

The End

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 6

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

I hope to show Then and Now images of Oakland Schools in this series of posts. I highlight a bit of the history of each school. Some photos are in the form of drawings or postcards or from the pages of history books.

Elmhurst Middle School

A June 1893 real estate ad for the Warner Tract in Elmhurst announced that.

building will commence soon on a new $15,000 schoolhouse upon the Warner Tract.

Oakland Evening Tribune Jun 26 1893

Elmhurst Grammar School was formally dedicated in July of 1894. The school contained four large classrooms.

New Addition for Elmhurst

The people of Elmhurst are requesting more room at Elmhurst; below is the proposed addition in 1903

In August of 1904, work had begun on the additions to Elmhurst School.

Elmhurst School is now Elmhurst Junior High

With the opening of the Elmhurst Annex School ( E. Morris Cox), a junior high school was needed. A new school was built at the site of the Old Elmhurst School at 98th and Cherry and Birch Street. The new school opened in July 1927.

John J. Donovan designed the new school. The structure is in classical design, with 21 classrooms and shops connected to manual training classes. Other features are an auditorium with a balcony and a motion picture projection room.

Modern Shops were added to Elmhurst.

Fires

In June of 1955, $35,00 destroyed one woodshop while damaging another.

In May 1967, Elmhurst Junior High suffered $25,000 in a suspected arson fire. It was the 7th school fire that year.

Elmhurst Today

Elmhurst is located at 1800 98th Avenue

Elmhurst Community Prep (ECP) is a triumphant middle school located in East Oakland. ECP prepares 6th – 8th-grade students for high school, college, and career by using a host of online and digital tools

Elmhurst United website – OUSD

$15,000 Schoolhouse to be Built – Oakland Evening Tribune Jun 26, 1893
School Dedicated – Oakland Evening Tribune Jul 16, 1894
Work to begin on new School – Oakland Tribune Nov 22, 1925
$35,000 fire burns Wood Shop – Oakland Tribune Jun 19, 1955

McChesney Junior High

McChesney started an elementary school built in 1913 at the intersection of 13th Avenue and East 38th Street. The school was named in honor of educator Joseph B. McChesney (1832-1912), Oakland High School‘s first Principal, who died the year before this school was finished.

The building was designed by architect John J. Donovan.

In 1989, Oakland Unified School District renamed the school for Edna Brewer (19-1986), its principal from 1971 until 1985.

New School Built

Groundbreaking for a new school.

McChesney/Edna Brewer Today

The decision of School site – Oakland Tribune Sep 21, 1921
New McChesney Dedicated – Oakland Tribune Nov 07, 1961
Edna Brewer Junior High – website

Melrose School

In 1901 property was purchased for $1500 by the Melrose School District, then part of the unincorporated Brooklyn Township.

Bids opened in June of 1901. The entire amount used for construction and purchasing the property was $15,000.

Melrose School was dedicated in November 1901.

**From the 1923 Fremont High School Yearbook**

In 1905, Union High School No.4 was established at Melrose, and classes were held on the 2nd floor while plans were being drawn up for the new Fremont High School.

New School

In 1959, plans were drawn up to replace the 58-year-old Melrose School. The new building would hold 300 students plus faculty and have seven classrooms, one kindergarten, administration offices, a library, and a multipurpose room with a kitchen.

E.D. Cerruti designed the school.

The new Melrose Elementary was dedicated in December 1960. It was built on 53rd Avenue, and the old school was on 52nd Avenue.

Melrose Elementary School is located at 1325 53rd Avenue

It is now Bridges Academy at Melrose

We are building bridges from East Oakland to college and careers by breaking barriers to create a more just, equitable, and culturally responsive community

Melrose nearing Completion – Oakland Tribune Aug 1901
Melrose School Dedicated – Oakland Tribune Nov 30, 1901
The architect for New Melrose – Oakland Tribune Jan 22, 1959
New Melrose School To be Dedicated – Oakland Tribune Dec 07, 1960
Bridges Academy at Melrose – website

Melrose Heights Grammar School

Melrose Heights school was later renamed Horace Mann (please see Part 1)

Melrose Heights was built in 1909. The building was designed by F.W. Burki, who chose the Renaissance style of architecture. The three-story building has 12 rooms, including eight classrooms and a basement. Cost $30,000

**Melrose School, later Horace Mann School**

Santa Fe School

Santa Fe School was formally dedicated in July 1914. John J. Donovan designed the school.

**School Architecture: Principles and Practices** **By John Donovan 1921**

New School Built

The new Santa Fe Elementary School was dedicated in February of 1960.

Santa Fe has been the temporary school for the students of Glenview Elementary while a new school is being rebuilt for them. The new school has 18 classrooms, two kindergartens, a multipurpose room, a library, and offices. It cost $809,879

The school is located at 915 54th St., Oakland

Oakland Builds Many Schools – Oakland Tribune Mar 29, 1914
New Santa Fe School – Oakland Tribune Feb 22, 1960
School Architecture – John J Donovan 1921

The End

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 5

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

I hope to show Then and Now images of Oakland Schools in this series of posts. Along with a bit of the history of each school, I highlight. Some photos are in the form of drawings or postcards or from the pages of history books.

Brookfield Village School

Brookfield Village school opened for the new school year in September of 1944, the latest of Oakland’s 77 schools.

“Brookfield Village Elementary School opened without the benefit of bells.”

Oakland Tribune Sept 17, 1944

Brookfield was Oakland’s newest public school, which opened under wartime handicaps. Money and supplies were tight. Classes were being held in 19 portables that arrived three weeks before school started.

767 boys and girls were enrolled, just 33 less than anticipated in that first year.

New School

In February 1950, they held a groundbreaking ceremony for Unit 1 of the new Brookfield Village School.

The school unit was designed by Confer and Willis. The new building had 11 classrooms, a library, and an auditorium. It was a one-story building of wood frame construction.

New Addition

In November of 1957, they broke ground for new addition costing $286,680. The new building will include a cafeteria, ten classrooms, a kindergarten, plus two special classrooms.

Brookfield Today

Brookfield Lions: Learning and Thriving with Pride.

The school is located at 401 Jones Ave., Oakland, CA 94603

Opening Day at Brookfield – Oakland Tribune Sept 17, 1944
Class Community Built by Pupils – Oakland Tribune Jan 16, 1949
Groundbreaking for Brookfield – Oakland Tribune Feb 15, 1950
Groundbreaking for new Addition – Oakland Tribune Nov 26, 1957
Brookfield Village website – OUSD

Clawson Grammar School

Clawson School dates back to the 1880s, as seen in the image below.

Clawson Elementary School was built in 1915. This Neo-Classical design had two stories and utilized extensive terracotta ornamentation. The ornamentation around its front doors. The building was designed by

School Architecture: Principles and Practices
By John Joseph Donovan 1921

The Clawson Elementary School was listed as standing near the intersection of 32nd Street and Magnolia Street in Polk-Husted’s Oakland, California, City Directory, 1918

Kindergarten

Principal’s Office

Auditorium

Bathrooms Boys and Girls

Clawson Closed

The building functioned as a school until it was closed sometime between 1971-1973. OUSD closed three schools in 1973 rather than spend the money needed to retrofit them, including Clawson School. Clawson couldn’t meet the new stricter seismic standards that went into effect in 1973.

New Life

After extensive remodeling and structural upgrading, the building reopened as The West Clawson Lofts in 1999.

Location 3240 Peralta Street Oakland CA

Clawson School – Oakland Local Wiki
Clawson School – American Architect
School Architecture – 1921
West Clawson Lofts – webpage
Clawson School – PCAD

Emerson Elementary School

Emerson School 1912 John Galen Howard collection of progress photographs, ca. 1905-1910

The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Emerson Elementary School was built in 1913. It was designed by John J Donovan and John Galen Howard. The total cost of the school was $163,879. It was located at 49th and Shafter Avenue.

Emerson Now

The address is 4803 Lawton Avenue. In 1978, it was torn down because it was considered seismically unsafe.

Modern Spanish – Oakland Tribune
Proposed Emerson School – Oakland Tribune
New Emerson School – Oakland Tribune
Emerson School – American Architect

The End

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 4

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

Durant School

Bids were in to build a new school at the corner of West Street. A bid of $5000 made by J.J. Chaplain was the winner. The new school was called the Durant School in honor of the Rev. Henry J. Durant, the 16th Mayor of Oakland (1873-1875) and one of the founders of the University of California.

Durant School opened in August of 1875. It was reported by the Board of Education that all grades were formed and that they had over 400 pupils with eight teachers.

In 1878 a 6-room addition was added.

Durant Elementary School

Plans for a new Durant School to be built were accepted in 1912. The old school was sold. The new building was constructed at the corner of 29th and West Street and was to exceed $160,000.

The building above was designed by architects John J. Donovan and Louis Christian Mullgardt and was completed in August of 1914-15 at the cost of $179,868

In 1971 (probably before), it was determined that the school was structurally unsafe in the event of an earthquake. Bids were requested for the construction of a new school. I don’t know what happened with that. I couldn’t locate any pictures of a newer Durant School.

Location 2820 West St Oakland CA

Bids Accepted for Durant School – Oakland Evening Tribune June 04, 1875
Durant School Almost Ready – Oakland Evening Tribune July 21, 1875
The principal of Durant School Suspended – Oakland Evening Tribune August 26, 1881
Bomb Explodes in Yard – SF Examiner November 02, 1950

Lafayette Grammar School

Picturesque Oakland 1889
Britton & Rey.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt309nd1h6/?order=20

Views of Oakland California’. Oakland: Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1893

Lafayette School was located at 17th and West Street and was built in the late 1860s.

The Lafayette Grammar School was one of the first schools built in Oakland. Lafayette even housed Oakland High School in 1869.

Lafayette Grammar School was named in honor of Marquis de Lafayette, a French military leader and statesman who fought on the side of the colonists during part of the American Revolution.

Lafayette Grammar School later changed its name to Lafayette Elementary School.

A brand new school was dedicated in October of 1949. Constructed at the cost of $594,825, the new school has 22 classrooms, a kindergarten, and an auditorium.

The school today

New Lafayette School Dedication – Oakland Tribune October 28, 1949

Lakeview Elementary School

The school was established in 1909 as an annex of Grant School, which was overcrowded. The Board of Education built a temporary structure of two rooms at the corner of Van Buren and Perry Streets. They called the school the Grant Annex.

With the rapid growth of the surrounding area, it soon became necessary to build a permanent school.

In 1913 a large red brick building was built in a modern style of architecture opposite the Grant Annex at the corner of Grand Avenue and Perry Street. The new school was called Lakeview.

**Construction of Lakeview School – circa 1913-14**

John J. Donovan was the architect of Lakeview Elementary. The estimated cost of building the school was $75,000.

Lakeview was situated on a high terrace with ivy-covered banks. Two flights of broad steps lead from the main building to Grand Avenue.

Lakeview School is situated at the head of Lake Merritt and surround by the beautiful Piedmont Hills. In one of the most attractive districts of Oakland.

Oakland Tribune Oct 1917

Across the street from the main building were two attractive smaller buildings that could not be seen from Grand Avenue.

There were manual art portables and a playground complete with equipment.

It appears that Julia Morgan designed an addition to Lakeview in 1915

By 1917 Lakeview had an enrollment of 768.

Fire at the Lakeview School Annex – May 1937

MacArthur Freeway –

In 1926 a group of Lakeview district residents appeared before the Board of Education to advocate steps to protect the area behind the school from future development. See below

They should see it now!

Go here to read the rest of the article
Oakland Tribune June 29, 1926

Lakeview School will soon be an island, completely surrounded by traffic”.

Oakland Tribune Jan 03, 1962

The school is located at 746 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94619

It is now a charter school

American Indian Public High School –AIMS COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL
746 GRAND AVE, OAKLAND, CA 94610 | TEL: 510-220-5044

AIMS – website

Pupils write about Lakeview School – Oakland Tribune October 14, 1917
Freeway Turns School into a Traffic Snarl – Oakland Tribune January 05, 1962
Fire at Lakeview School Annex – Oakland Tribune May 1937

The End

Updated Oct 2019

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 3

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

Updated December 26, 2023

E. Morris Cox School (Elmhurst Annex)

The new Elmhurst Annex Elementary School was completed in Oct 1926. Howard Schroeder designed the Italian Renaissance-style building. The new school contained thirteen classrooms, a kindergarten, and an assembly hall. It cost $140,000 to build. The school is located at 98th Avenue and Sunnyside Street.

**E Morris Cox School. Graham Photo, Courtesy BAERA, Western Railway Museum Archives**

Renamed

The Elmhurst Annex school was renamed to honor E. Morris Cox, who died in 1925. Cox was the Assistant Superintendent of Schools.

In 1960 a new building was added to the school.

Located at 9860 Sunnyside Street

E.Morris Cox School Dedicated – Oakland Tribune November 10, 1926
Cox Academy Website – OUSD

Garfield School

Garfield Grammar School opened in March of 1887 with two seventh and eighth classes. The teachers will be Miss Murray and Miss Ellen Gibbs.

The school was named after the 20th U.S. President, James A. Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881.

**Oakland Daily Evening Tribune March 24, 1887**

The school was designed by John & T.D. Newsom (Newsom Brothers)

In 1910 Miss Ellen Gibbs retired after 16 years as the principal of Garfield Grammar School.

**OMCA**
**Harry Courtright | Commercial Photo View**

Fire

In 1926 a suspected arson fire destroyed the school built in the 1890s. The school was a combined elementary and junior high. This was the fourth school to be destroyed by fire in nine months.

2 Arsonist Hunted for School Fire – Oakland Tribune September 11, 1924

New School Built

The school board approved a new Tudor-style building. Miller and Warnecke designed the new three-building with 26 classrooms.

A cornerstone for the new school was laid in Sept of 1926.

1959

Bids were open to build a new school on the present site.

Located at 1640 22nd Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94606

President J A Garfield – White House
Newsom Brothers Architects of Garfield – Oakland Tribune April 16, 1887
East Oakland to Honor Miss Gibbs – SF Call September 10, 1910
New Garfield Junior High Dedicated – Oakland Tribune January 17, 1927
Suit Filed for New SIte – Oakland Tribune May 22, 1958
Garfield’s Website – OUSD

Jefferson School

John J Donovan and Washington J Miller designed Jefferson School. The school was built in 1912.

In 1959 bids were open to build a new school at the same site. The demolition of the old building was in 1960.

Dedication ceremonies were held in January 1961 for the new $560,000 school. Jefferson was the 31st project to be dedicated of the 51 proposed in the 1956 school bond issue.

**Jefferson School – 2035 40th Avenue, Oakland, CA**

It is now the Global Family Elementary, a TK – 5th-grade dual immersion school located in the East Oakland-Fruitvale corridor near Foothill Avenue. Our dedicated staff prepares students to be bilingual and bi-literate to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

John J. Donovan – about
Artistic Schools – Oakland Tribune August 22, 1915
Bids on New School – Oakland Tribune May 27, 1959
Dedication of New School – Oakland Tribune January 25, 1961
About Global Family – OUSD finder

Lazear School

Lazear School, designated initially as the Park and Division School, was built in 1913-1914. The school cost $75 595. Fred Voorhees was the Architect.

The school was named after Dr. Jesse Lazear, an American physician and commission member that proved that a mosquito transmits the infectious agent of yellow fever.

New School

In 1959 a new school with 12 classrooms, a kindergarten, a library, and offices was built to replace the old one. The new school cost $162,456.

824 29th Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94601

It is now Lazear Charter Academy

Park and Division School Architect – Oakland Tribune April 02, 1912
Lazear School Dedicated – Oakland Tribune August 15, 1959
Lazear Charter Academy – about

The End

Updated October 21, 2023

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 2

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

Campbell Primary School

Campbell Primary School started put as the Grove Street School. The name was changed in 1906 to Campbell School for Fred Campbell, the superintendent of Oakland schools from 1870-1870 and 1886-1890. He was the state superintendent of schools from 1880-1883.

**Campbell School looked in 1887** – **Oakland Tribune June 09, 1926**

His daughter Mary Campbell was the school’s principal from 1898-1926.

**Miss Mary Campbell – Oakland Tribune Jun 9, 1926**

In 1907 a new school was built. The Mission Style school was designed by Architect F.E. Voorhees and cost $38,000. It had seven classrooms and an office for the principal.

1954 the school was closed because it was not earthquake-safe, and the students were sent to Tompkins School. The school was sold and demolished in 1954. A commercial building was built on the site.

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The school was located at 416 Grove Street.

New Campbell School opens – Oakland Tribune March 30, 1907
Miss Campbell Retires – Oakland Tribune June 09, 1926
Old Campbell School – Oakland Tribune June 09, 1926
Sale of School – Oakland Tribune May 1954

Cleveland School

In 1912 the first drawing for a new Peralta Heights school was submitted to the school board. John J. Donovan and Shafer & Wilde were the architects. Donovan designed many schools for the district.

Peralta Heights is a small neighborhood in what is now known as Cleveland Heights.

Bids to build the school were submitted in 1912, based on the below photo. They held a formal opening of the school in Jan of 1914.

The old school building stood in 1973 and was finally replaced with a new facility in 1977.

Oakland_Tribune_Mon__Mar_26__1973_ — **Oakland Tribune March 26, 1973**

Cleveland Today

**Cleveland School Today – Google Maps**

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California Distinguished School for 2020

“serves the very diverse and historically underserved city of Oakland, with a large percentage of students living in poverty and a large percentage of English learner”
Release California Department of Education

Press Release – OUSD

Cleveland Elementary School is located at 745 Cleveland Street.

New Peralta Heights School – Oakland Tribune July 09, 1912
Cleveland School Website – OUSD

Cole Grammar School

Cole Grammar School was opened in 1878 in West Oakland on 10th Street between Union and Poplar Stree. The plans called for a two-story, 14-room building.

**Cole School – Oakland and Surroundings 1885**

It was named for Rector E. Cole, an early Oakland dentist and member of the city council, and member and then president of the Oakland Board of Education.

Jack London attended Cole starting in 1887. He graduated 8th grade in 1891.

**Front Doors of the Cole School Building with several children standing on the sidewalk in 1908 Huntington Digital Library**

School Fire

In Dec 1923, the school was destroyed in a six-alarm fire where one fireman lost his life, and six others were injured. The fire was deliberately set by a”firebug.” A suspicious fire was a reporter at Garfield School at 23rd and Foothill Blvd.

The cornerstone for a new school was laid in May 1925, and the new two-story school was dedicated in April 1926.

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Cole School was the headquarters of the Chief of Police from 2013-2021 (?.) As of 2023, a new OUSD administration building in under construction.

Cole School was located at 1011 Union Street.

Cole Grammar School – Oakland Local Wiki
New Cole School – Oakland Tribune October 5, 1877
Torch Welder Causes Fire at Cole School – Oakland Tribune December 31, 1923
Cole School Fire – Oakland Tribune December 31, 1923

Central Administrative Offices Cole Campus – OUSD

Piedmont Avenue School

The Piedmont Avenue School, as seen below, was built in 1891.

Before that, a two-room schoolhouse was closer to the Mountain View Cemetery. Classes we held for a time at the home of G.W. Hume, who lived in a large estate where the school is located now.

Both children from Piedmont and Oakland used the school at that time. The building was designed by William Kirk and cost about $10,000 to build. The school had a bell tower with a 350-pound bell. There was a large assembly room, a library, a hothouse for plants, classrooms on both floors and a large lighted basement where the children could play during wet weather.

The school was dedicated on Washington’s Birthday in 1892.

Engraving of the Piedmont District School at Webster Avenue in Oakland, Alameda County, California, from the book “Illustrated album of Alameda County, California” by Jos, 1893. Alex Colquhoun. Courtesy Internet Archive. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

School Fire

In July of 1938, while the students were on summer break, the school was destroyed by an arson fire. Ten firemen were injured, four of them seriously.

The new school was dedicated in March of 1941 with funds provided by “The Living New Deal” Works Progress Administration (WPA).

This Art Deco school building has an auditorium, library, kindergarten classroom, kitchen, offices, and regular classrooms. There is still a WPA sidewalk marker in front of the school.

More Info:

New Piedmont School – Oakland Tribune February 13, 1892
Firebug Hunt is On – Oakland Tribune July 25, 1938
School Burns – Oakland Tribune July 25, 1938
School to Be Rebuilt – Oakland Tribune August 02ust 02, 1938
Piedmont Avenue Elementary School – Living New Deal
Piedmont Avenue School – OUSD

Prescott School

Prescott School was established in 1866 as a one-room primary school. It was named after William H. Prescott, a historian, and was located at Ninth and Campbell Streets on dirt roads surrounded by woods.

In 1869 a new two-story building with four classrooms on each floor, ‘the largest, and it was the most up- to- date school building in Oakland,’ with C. W. Brodt as principal, with a salary of $150 per month.

Prescott school building was heavily damaged in the historic 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Prescott School with damage from the 1906 earthquake
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Permalink: https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb1m3nb284/

New School

Prescott Primary School was constructed in a record time of 187 workdays by Lawton & Vezey, a local contractor.

The new school was a two-story Spanish-style steel-framed building with a basement and seventeen classrooms.

“accepted by the school board, who considered it one of the best in the recent school buildings”

Oakland School Board – October 05, 1926

The exterior of Prescott School circa 1918
Towns (Royal E.) Papers
Oakland Public Library, African American Museum

prescott-school-playground-west_1_0f2ee96ce0f6fda0b21a28a70d72cea6 — Prescott School 9th & Campbell Streets – Cheney Photo Advertising Company c 1919

Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first African-American teacher, taught there in 1925 — 13 years before any other school hired a black teacher.

Unsafe and Condemned

In 1954 Prescott Junior High (name change?) was condemned for being dangerous to the students. At that time, there was no budget to replace it.

Prescott Today

Prescott is located at 920 Campbell St.

The school has been operating under the name PLACE @ Prescott (Preparatory Literary Academy of Cultural Excellence @ Prescott) since 2006, serving Kindergarten through 5th-grade children

More Info:

Prescott School Addition – Oakland Tribune Dec 23, 1882
Prescott School – Oakland Tribune March 15, 1953
150 Years of Prescott – OUSD
Prescott website- OUSD
Place@Prescott website – OUSD

Swett Grammar School

Swett School was located at 12th Avenue and East 19th Street.

**Swett School – 1906 earthquake damage**
Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
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Woodrow Wilson Junior High

Woodrow Wilson Junior High started as Mosswood Junior High in August of 1923. It was located at the corner of 48th and Webster Streets. In 1924 the school’s name was changed.

In 1926 they laid the cornerstone for a new school.

**Woodrow Wilson Junior circa the 1970s**

In the early 1970s, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School was demolished, and a new school was built. In the mid-1970s, the school was renamed the Verdese Carter Middle School.

Demolition of Woodrow Wilson School in the 1970s
from Adrienne Broach

Woodrow Wilson Today

In 2007 the Oakland Unified school district opened its first school that enrolls only immigrant students. The Oakland International High School is modeled after international high schools in New York City for newcomers to the United States. The school was still open in 2019.

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The school is located at 4521 Webster St.

Odd Fellows to Dedicate School – Oakland Tribune October 29, 1926
School Dedicated – Oakland Tribune August 20, 1927
Mosswood Junior High – Oakland Tribune January 03, 1949

Oakland International High School – OUSD
West Coast District Uses East Coast Model – August 2007

Updated August 2023

The End

Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 1 – A

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

My 100th post!

This is the first in a series of posts on Oakland Schools.

I hope to show Then and Now images of most of the schools and a bit of the history of each school I show. Some photos are in the form of drawings, postcards, or from the pages of history books.

Note: Piecing together the history of some of the older schools is sometimes tricky. I do this all at home and online — a work in progress for some. I have been updating my posts when I find something new. Let me know of any mistakes or additions.

Updated September 20, 2020

Castlemont High School

In 1863, Frank Silva purchased 73 acres of land for a farm. Castlemont High now stands on his land.

Castlemont High School is in Oakland, California, United States, formerly known as East Oakland High School. The Castlemont name was selected by a vote of the students. Castlemont High School was founded in 1929 in a medieval-style building. The school is located at 8601 MacArthur Boulevard.

Castlemont High was designed by Chester Miller and Carl Warneke, Oakland architects. Oakland Local WIki – Castlemont High.

**Castlemont Construction – Pouring the foundation.**

On August 12, 1929, East Oakland High School opened at the cost of $670,000. Still, the name was short-lived; by a vote of the students and faculty in 1930, the name Castlemont was officially brought to prominence before being nationally designated the most beautiful school structure in the country.

The building’s main entrance is accessed from Foothill Blvd down six steps to the reflection pool, then ascends six steps to the extended terrace and the four-entry solid redwood doors. The full length of Castlemont grounds adjacent to Foothill had been magnificently landscaped.

The building was replaced in 1961 as the old one was not earthquake-safe.

Castlemont Today

From 2004 to 2012, the large school housed three separate smaller schools called the Castlemont Community of Small Schools for eight years. The smaller schools were known by the names:

Castlemont Leadership Preparatory High (10-12)
Castlemont Business and Information Technology School (10-12) (CBITIS)
East Oakland School of the Arts (10-12)

New Castlemont School – Oakland Tribune September 21, 1961
Castlemont Community of Small Schools – Wikipedia
Castlemont High School – Oakland Local wiki
Castlemont High School website – OUSD

Dewey School

Dewey School was established as an elementary school at 38th Avenue and East 12th Street in 1899. It was a part of the Bray School District and the Fruitvale School District.

It was named after Admiral George Dewey, who was a hero in the Spanish-American War that was being fought at that time.

**Dewey School circa 1916 Cheney Photo Advertising**

In 1964, Dewey became the first continuation high school in Oakland. Below is how Dewey looked in 1964. In 1913, an addition was added to the original school, which was still in use in 1964.

Dewey is now located at 1111 2nd Ave, Oakland, CA, 94606

Dropouts Get a New School- Oakland Tribune Oct 30,1964
Dewey High School – OUSD

Franklin School

The Brooklyn School was a two-story building built in 1863-64 at the cost of $5,000.

Brooklyn was annexed into Oakland in 1872. After the annexation, the nine-year-old school was renamed Franklin Grammar and Primary School.

An addition to the school was added in 1879 at the cost of $3,217.

On December 02, 1902, the school was destroyed by fire.

The new school building was almost complete when the SF earthquake of 1906 struck. The brick and steelwork were done, and the building was ready for the roof. When the school was finally done, the total cost was $204,343,45.

**Franklin Grammar School** – **Cheney Photo Advertising circa 1912**

In 1923, an oblong-shaped assembly hall was built at the rear of the school on 10th Ave and E16th. The cost is $40,000.

In 1943, the school’s address was 1530 Ninth Avenue.

In 1953, the 1906 brick building was declared unsafe. In 1955, it was demolished to make way for a new building. The new school was a principal part of the Clinton Park Urban Renewal Project. The school opened in Sept 1956 and was dedicated in Jan of 1957. The new school cost $467,000.

In 1956, a man, while remodeling his store, found an old report card from 1875.

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The school is located at 915 Foothill Blvd

Franklin School – Oakland Local Wiki
Recollections of the Old Brooklyn School – Oakland Tribune November 13, 1886
Franklin School is Destroyed – Oakland Tribune December 30, 1902
Inferior Constriction Franklin School – Oakland January 13, 1908
Two Ex-Students Return – Oakland Tribune March 29, 1926
Franklin School Story Brings Back Memories – Oakland Tribune February 06, 1955
New School Opens- Oakland Tribune September 09, 1956
Franklin School Website – OUSD

Fremont High School

The John. C. Fremont High School was the successor of Fruitvale High School and was organized in 1905 by Frank Stuart Rosseter.

**Fremont High School circa 1915 – Cheney Photo Advertising**

The old building was destroyed in an arson fire on the night of January 01, 1930.

New School

The school reopened on April 19, 1932. It was constructed with the assistance of the federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds.

Fremont Today

More Info:

Path of Destruction – Oakland Tribune January 02, 1930
A loss at $400,000 – Oakland Tribune January 02, 1930
Group of photos of the School after the fire – OMCA
Fremont High School – OUSD
Fremont High School – Oakland Local Wiki

Frick Junior High

Frick was built on the Boulevard between Baker and Bay View (now Foothill and 62nd). The school takes its name from W.P. Frick, who donated the lot the school is to be built on. It was then part of the Lockwood District. The school was dedicated on March 17, 1909.

The first school was kindergarten through the seventh grade. The building had eight rooms. With the rapid growth of the area around Frick School, it was decided to make Frick School a junior high in 1923.

**Frick Grammar School circa 1915 – Cheney Photo Advertising**

New School

In 1927 a new school was built on adjoining land and was called Frick Jr. High School. The style of the new building is Spanish and Moorish architecture.

Another New School

In 1953, it was determined that the 1927 building was an earthquake risk. In 1957, the was broken for a new school fronting Brann Street. The old building was razed during the summer of 1960. The present school has been in use since 1960-61.

It is now called Frick Impact Academy

More Info:

School Dedicated – Oakland Tribune March 28, 1909
Ground Broken for New School – Oakland Tribune May 20, 1926
Frick School Completed – Oakland Tribune June 05, 1927
Frick Junior High website – OUSD

Hamilton Junior High School

Alexander Hamilton Junior High was built in 1922. The school is located at 2101 35th Avenue.

It was named after Calvin Simmons sometime in the early to mid-1980s. The school was renamed United for Success Academy in 2006.

More Info:

New Hamilton Jr High – Oakland Tribune March 12, 1922
United for Success Academy –OSUD

Horace Mann Grammar School

Horace Mann was built in about 1910-1912. The school is located at 5222 Ygnacio Avenue. It was known as Melrose Heights School first.

Groundbreaking for the new Horace Mann school after it was determined to be not earthquake-safe was in 1959. The new school was formally dedicated in 1961.

Horace Mann today – Google Maps

More Info:

Groundbreaking for Horace Mann School – Oakland Tribune March 07, 1959
Horace Mann Dedicated – Oakland Tribune March 20, 1961
Horace Mann Website – OSUD

Sequoia Elementary School

Sequoia Elementary School is located on Lincoln Avenue at Scenic Avenue. It was built in 1910. Ida M. Hammond was the first principal. The building below is facing Scenic Avenue. The address of the school is 3730 Lincoln Avenue.

Original Sequoia School
Lincoln Avenue and Scenic Street

Cheney Photo Advertising Company circa 1910

In 1926, a new school building was built adjoining the original. The new building will have 13 to 14 rooms and an auditorium. It will face Lincoln Avenue, as seen below.

The original building is razed to make room for a new $235,880 addition. The addition added seven classrooms and a cafeteria.

Sequoia School today. Google maps

More Info:

Sequoia Elementary School – OUSD
Groundbreaking Sequoia School – Oakland Tribune September 08, 1926
Sequoia School Tour Set – Oakland Tribune January 20, 1960

Please see Part 1 B for University High School

The End

Then & Now – Old Lockwood School

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

Updated August 2024

**Oakland Tribune Oct 10, 1965,** and Pg.2

In 1858, Miss Julia Aldrich was contracted to run a small private school on Isaac (Issac) Yoakum’s farm. Yoakum had built his house on the site of the present Lockwood School. The house was moved and replaced with a small building to be used as a school (see above).

The schoolhouse remained in use for another 42 years, with a small addition in 1892.

The school was located at the intersection of East 14th Street (County Road No. 1525 and now International Blvd), Mary Street, then 68th Avenue, and later 69th Avenue.

**Map from 1912 – the red line is East 14th (now International Blvd)**

In the first year, Lockwood had twelve students enrolled.

Twenty-eight boys and ten girls were enrolled in the school in February 1876. Alonzo Crawford was the teacher.

In August 1876 (typo in the newspaper), 20 boys and 21 girls were enrolled.

The Damon Family owned a general store at the corner of E.14th & 66th
The Kinsell Family lived on 94th Avenue just below E. 14th
The A.H. Merritt family lived on 66th Avenue
The Moss home was at 82nd and Foothill
The Silva’s owned a saloon at 84th and E. 14th

New School – 1902

The new school was built on the corner of East 14th Street and 68th Avenue in 1902. Charles H. Greenman was the principal. The school was demolished (I need to verify this) in 1936.

**The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California Gift of ANG Newspapers circa 1917**

Greenman died while fighting a fire in the school playground in 1919. In the 1950s, they named the athletic field after Greenman.

Across from the school was the 282-acre dairy belonging to William Manchido. The big pasture was later used as the landing field of Weldon Cooke, an early Oakland aviator. In 1910, Wickham Havens subdivided the land into what we now know as Havenscourt.

Old School is Sold – 1903

Class of 1904

Lockwood Junior High

In 1913, Supervising Architect J.J. Donovan announced that a new Lockwood school building would be built at East 14th between 66th and 68th Avenues.

The school was to be one story in height, built in the early California style around a courtyard and Mission architecture. The wings were arranged to house a social center, a neighborhood meeting place, a cafeteria, and other modern innovations.

Old Timers Reunions

For many years, the former students of the school held an annual reunion for all graduates.

The Lockwood Quill

Lockwood School Band

Traffic Reserve

The first traffic reserve unit was formed at Lockwood in February 1928.

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Also known as Havenscourt Junior High

Now the Coliseum College Prep Academy – OUSD

The present Lockwood School building was built in 1953-54

New Lockwood, Jr. High – Oakland Tribune Apr 06, 1913
Schools Close; Mourn Teacher – Oakland Tribune Sep 17, 1919
Five Survivors of 1898 Hold Reunion – Oakland Tribune Feb 16, 1932
Lockwood Old Timers Sponsor Field – Oakland Tribune Feb 16, 1950
Old Timers Reunion to be Held – Oakland Tribune Feb 01, 1951
Groundbreaking for New Lockwood School – Oakland Tribune Apr 30, 1953
Old Lockwood School – Oakland Tribune Nov 03, 1957

In 2007, Futures Elementary School opened as a small school on the historic Lockwood campus, which had been home to students for over 100 years.

Futures Elementary School – OUSD

Fruitvale Schools 1-3

UPDATED AUGUST 2024

“Fruit vale Public School” – Latter Fruitvale No. 1

New Life as Church

Fruitvale No. 1 – Fruitvale Elementary School

New School Built

More on Fruitvale Elementary

Fruitvale School No. 2 – Hawthorne School

School Destroyed by Fire in 1923

New School Built

Hawthorne Today

Fruitvale No. 3 – Allendale School

Dangerous and a Hazard

New School Built

Allendale Today

Fruitvale – Allendale Junior High

Bret Harte Middle School – Today

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Elmhurst Middle School

McChesney Junior High

Melrose School

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Melrose Heights Grammar School

Santa Fe School

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Brookfield Village School

New School

New Addition

Brookfield Today

Brookfield Lions: Learning and Thriving with Pride.

Clawson Grammar School

Emerson Elementary School

Emerson Now

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Durant School

Lafayette Grammar School

Lakeview Elementary School

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E. Morris Cox School (Elmhurst Annex)

Garfield School

Jefferson School

Lazear School

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Campbell Primary School

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Cleveland School

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Cole Grammar School

School Fire

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Piedmont Avenue School

School Fire

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Prescott School

New School

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Swett Grammar School

Woodrow Wilson Junior High

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