Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto)

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Ravenswood High School
Location
East Palo Alto, California
United States
Information
Type Public high school
Opened 1958
Closed 1976
School district Sequoia Union High School District
Enrollment 823 (1974)
Color(s) Blue and yellow
Team name Trojans
Yearbook Argonaut

Ravenswood High School was a public high school located in East Palo Alto, California. Opened in 1958, it served the East Palo Alto area of San Mateo County California until its closure in 1976. In 1958 its enrollment was 629 students.[1] During the existence of Ravenswood, East Palo Alto was the low income area in the shadow of its more affluent neighbors Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto. The city of Palo Alto, while adjacent and sharing the same zip code is a completely different city in a Santa Clara County. Ravenswood was part of the Sequoia Union High School District which serves the southern San Mateo County cities of Belmont, Redwood City, San Carlos, and Woodside. In 1971, Raymond J. Heringer, director of the work experience program at Ravenswood High, was awarded the John Wesley Powell Award.

During the early 1960s, the enrollment in the school increased from initially less than 800 to over 1,200 students. Due to white flight, 60 percent of the student population was African American.[weasel words] The next decade continued this trend. Almost a decade after Brown v. Board of Education decision, the conditions at the school drew the attention of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[1] In the early 1970s, the school board instituted a district wide busing program to increase the diversity of all its high schools. This was successful for a few years, but by the mid-70's volunteer students wishing to attend Ravenswood became harder to find. Enrollment declined and facing the financial burden of keeping the school alive, Ravenswood was closed in 1976. The location was demolished in 1995 to make room for the Gateway 101 Shopping Center.[2]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://ravenswood.sequoiaalumni.net/about_rhs.htm
  2. ↑ http://sequoiaalumni.net/schools/ravenswood/rwhs_story.html


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