List of closed secondary schools in California
Appearance
This is a list of closed secondary schools in California.
There was a noticeable increase in closures starting about 1979,Baby Boom, long term property ownership, population shift (older residents are less likely to produce new students), and white flight.[5][6] Each of these local decisions were taken by individual school boards (or entities who operated private schools); many of those attributions are discussed in the linked articles.
School name discontinued
Certain events, such as closure, can result in the discontinuation of a school's name. In some cases, the same location has been reopened with a similar name.
School | Location | Date discontinued | Currently at this location |
---|---|---|---|
Airport Junior High School | Westchester | 1975 | demolished |
Anderson W. Clark Junior High School[1] | Glendale | 1983 | reopened in 1998 as Anderson W. Clark Magnet High School |
Apollo Junior High School | Anaheim
|
1979 | demolished[7][8] |
Argyll Academy | Los Angeles | 1982 | all-girls school; evolved into co-ed Campbell Hall School under new name[9] |
Aviation High School | Redondo Beach | 1981 | Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center |
Bellarmine-Jefferson High School (Bell-Jeff) | Burbank | 2018 | St. John Paul II STEM Academy at Bellarmine Jefferson |
Birmingham High School | Los Angeles | 2009 | renamed Birmingham Community Charter High School |
Blackford High School | San Jose | 1991 | Harker Middle School (private)
|
Buchser High School | Santa Clara | 1981 | renamed Santa Clara High School |
California Schools for the Deaf and Blind | Berkeley | 1980 | reopened in 1986 as Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley[10]
|
Camden High School | San Jose | 1980[11] | mostly torn down to make space for a shopping center; portions remain as Camden Community Center |
Campbell High School | Campbell | 1980 | Campbell Community Center[11] |
Castro Middle School
|
San Jose | 2006 | renamed Moreland Middle School
|
Chester F. Awalt High School | Mountain View | 1980 | assumed the name of Mountain View High School when the Mountain View Union High School (Castro Street) was closed |
Citrus Union High School
|
Glendora | 1958[12] | Citrus College remains, high school students subsequently went to Glendora High School |
Cogswell College
|
San Francisco | 1930 | converted to a technical college |
Corvallis High School | Studio City
|
1987 | Osaka Sangyo University of Los Angeles and Bridges Academy |
Covington Junior High School[13] | Los Altos | 1980 | demolished in 2001; rebuilt as Covington School (elementary) |
Crescent Junior High School | Buena Park | 1979 | demolished for housing[8] |
Crestmoor High School | San Bruno
|
1980 | Peninsula High School continuation school and a municipal courthouse |
Ellwood P. Cubberley High School | Palo Alto
|
1979 | Cubberley Community Center |
Cypress Grove Charter High School for Arts and Sciences | Carmel | 2006[14] | |
Excelsior High School | Norwalk | 1981 | Norwalk Adult School |
Fermin Lasuen High School[15] | San Pedro
|
1971 | |
Granada Hills High School
|
Los Angeles | 1994 | renamed LAUSD magnet school
|
Gladstone High School
|
Covina | 2023 | Gladstone Middle School |
Warren G. Harding High School | Los Angeles | 1929 | Renamed University High School after University of California, Los Angeles moved to its current location. |
Harry Ells High School | Richmond | 1985 | LoVonya Dejean Middle School |
High School of Commerce | San Francisco | 1952 | demolished for the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall |
Dr. James J. Hogan High School
|
Vallejo | 2011 | first assigned to Springstowne Middle School; now called Dr. James J. Hogan Middle School[16]
|
Holy Name Academy | Pomona | 1949 | Pomona Catholic High School |
J. Eugene McAteer High School | San Francisco | 2002 | Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts |
Jacob Riis High School[17] | Los Angeles | 1965 | renamed Mary McLeod Bethune Junior High School |
Kennedy High School[18] | Barstow | 1977 | Barstow Junior High School |
Kern County High School and Kern County Union High School | Bakersfield
|
1945 | renamed Bakersfield High School in the same location |
La Palma Junior High School | Buena Park | 1979 | [19][8] |
La Sierra High School | Carmichael | 1983 | [20] |
Loretto High School | Sacramento
|
2009 | [21]Aspire Alexander Twilight Secondary Academy |
Los Angeles Baptist High School | North Hills, Los Angeles | 2012 | Heritage Christian School |
Los Angeles Polytechnic High School | Los Angeles | 1935 | renamed John H. Francis Polytechnic High School |
Los Nietos Valley Union High School | Downey | 1919 | renamed Downey High School |
Lowell High School | Whittier | 1980 | Southern California University of Health Sciences[22] |
Marian High School | Chula Vista
|
2007 | campus shuttered across 18th Street from St. Charles Catholic Church; demolished for housing; students went to the new Mater Dei Catholic High School constructed across town. |
Marina High School | San Leandro
|
1980 | converted into a continuation school which lasted until 1989;[23] Stenzel Park now occupies part of the former campus |
Marywood Central Catholic School for Girls[24] | Orange | 1980 | Demolished for new housing – 2016 |
McNally Intermediate | La Mirada | 1979 | Property purchased by Biola College (now Biola University) |
Mercy High School, Carmichael | Carmichael | 1983 | all-girls school, demolished for medical offices and parking garage for adjacent Dignity Health Mercy San Juan Medical Center. |
Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School | San Francisco | 2013 | merged with Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School[25] |
Miraleste High School, Palos Verdes
|
Palos Verdes
|
1991 | renamed Miraleste Intermediate School
|
Montclair College Preparatory School | Van Nuys | 2012 | |
Monte Vista High School[26] | Whittier | 1979 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Training Center |
Mount Carmel High School[27] | Los Angeles | 1976 | formerly at 7011 South Hoover Street, Mt. Carmel Park;[28] the actual demolition of the school was used in the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School which used the school as a location[29] |
Mountain View Union High School | Mountain View | 1980 | closed and demolished for housing; portions of the campus remain as Eagle Park; Chester F. Awalt High School was then renamed Mountain View High School |
Neff High School | La Mirada | 1979(?) | Note cde.ca.gov incorrectly list closure date in 1989.. Final class to graduate was 1979 |
Norte Del Rio High School
|
Sacramento | 1989 | In 2007, Grant Joint Union High School District merged into Twin Rivers Unified School District; campus is now Martin Luther King Jr. Technology Academy, a middle school.[citation needed] |
Notre Dame High School[30] | San Francisco | 1981 | Notre Dame Senior Plaza |
Oakland Aviation High School | Oakland | 2011 | original location: abandoned; 2010 relocation: commercial office space |
Pacific Christian on the Hill | Hermon | 2004 | now the Los Angeles International Charter High School
|
Pacific High School | San Leandro
|
1983 | demolished; now Marina Square Center Outlet Mall[31] |
Palisades High School | Los Angeles | 1993 | renamed Palisades Charter High School |
Peterson High School
|
Sunnyvale | 1981[32] | became Marian A. Peterson Middle School |
Pius X High School
|
Downey | phased out by 1998 | St. Matthias High School
|
Pleasant Hill High School[33] | Pleasant Hill | 1980 | reopened in 1997 as Pleasant Hill Middle School |
Pomona Catholic Boys High School | Pomona | 1967 | Damien High School |
Ravenswood High School | East Palo Alto
|
1976 | demolished, now Gateway 101 Shopping Center |
Red Hill Middle School[34] | San Anselmo
|
1985 | Red Hill Community Park |
Richard E. Byrd Middle School | Sun Valley | 2008 | renamed Sun Valley High School after Byrd Relocates to a New Campus near John H. Francis Polytechnic High School. |
Riverview Union High School[35] | Antioch | 1931 | Antioch Historical Society Museum |
Rolling Hills High School | Rolling Hills Estates
|
1991 | renamed Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in a consolidation of three high schools |
Royal Oak High School[36] | Covina | now Royal Oak Middle School | |
Samuel Ayer High School | Milpitas
|
1980 | Milpitas Sports Center, Teen Center and Adult Education Center |
Samuel Rogers Middle School
|
San Jose | 2006 | Easterbrook Discovery School K-8 |
San Carlos High School | San Carlos | 1988 | demolished for housing |
San Francisco Polytechnic High School | San Francisco | mostly demolished for housing, the east gymnasium remains as the home for Acro Sports and the west gymnasium remains as the home for Circus Center | |
Santa Cruz Waldorf High School | Santa Cruz | 2009 | [37] |
Santa Rosa Christian School | Santa Rosa | 2011 | [38] |
Serramonte High School
|
Daly City
|
1981 | Jefferson Union High School District office, Serramonte Del Rey |
Sierra High School[26] | Whittier | 1979 | Whittier Adult Center,[39] Sierra Vista Alternative High School |
St. Elizabeth High School | Oakland | 2017 | Reopened 2018 as Cristo Rey De La Salle East Bay High School |
South Bay Lutheran High School | Inglewood | Pacific Lutheran High School split away in 2003 | |
Southern California Christian High School | Orange | 2000 | Olive Elementary School[40][41] |
Sunnyvale High School | Sunnyvale | 1981 | The King's Academy (private) |
Sunset High School | Hayward | 1990 | Hayward Adult School |
Trident Junior High School | Anaheim
|
1979 | Gilbert South Continuation High School, Polaris Education Center, Anaheim Adult Education[42][8] |
University High School | Oakland | 1948 | became first campus of Oakland City College, which moved in 1967, becoming Merritt College; housed Oakland Technical High School while the original location was retrofitted for earthquakes in the 1970s; now part of the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland |
University of San Diego High School
|
San Diego
|
2005 | campus was demolished; school moved to Del Mar and reopened as Cathedral Catholic High School |
Ursuline High School | Santa Rosa | 2011 | students were absorbed by Cardinal Newman High School |
Venice Union Polytechnic High School
|
Los Angeles | 1935 | renamed Venice High School
|
Visalia High School (later called Visalia Union High School) | Visalia | 1955 | campus became Redwood High School, school mascot and colors went to the new Mt. Whitney High School |
West Los Angeles Baptist High School | Los Angeles | 2008 | |
William N. Neff High School
|
La Mirada | 1981 | demolished; now industrial buildings at Alondra Blvd. and Trojan Way; operated as a continuation school until 1989[43] |
Wilmington High School | Wilmington, Los Angeles | renamed Phineas Banning High School | |
Wilson High School[44] | San Francisco | 1996 | Phillip & Sala Burton High School and Leadership High School |
Moved
This is a list of schools which have changed locations, resulting in closure or reuse of the old campus.
School | Location | Date moved | Currently at this location |
---|---|---|---|
Burroughs High School | Ridgecrest | 1960 | Murray Middle School |
Clovis High School
|
Clovis | 1969 | in 1995 became San Joaquin College of Law |
Hanford High School | Hanford | 1964 | Main Hall on East Campus was Demolished in 1975. |
John H. Francis Polytechnic High School | Los Angeles | 1957 | has moved three times and has changed name once since its creation in 1897; most recent move was from what has become Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
|
Live Oak High School | Morgan Hill | 1975 | Britton Middle School |
Los Angeles High School | Los Angeles | 1917 | now covered by the Hollywood Freeway |
Lynwood High School | Lynwood | 1998 | on Bullis Road; now Lynwood Middle School |
Moorpark High School | Moorpark
|
1988 | Walnut Canyon Elementary School |
Narbonne High School | Harbor City
|
1957 | Alexander Fleming Middle School
|
Nordhoff High School | Ojai
|
1966 | Matilija Junior High School |
Oxnard High School | Oxnard
|
1995 | demolished |
Paso Robles High School | Paso Robles
|
1981 | George H. Flamson Middle School |
St. Matthias High School
|
Downey, formerly Huntington Park | 1995 | Aspire Public Schools |
San Fernando High School | San Fernando | 1952 | San Fernando Junior High School |
Sanger Union High School | Sanger | 2004 | Washington Academic Middle School |
Santa Clara High School | Santa Clara | 1981 | original downtown location on Bellomy Street has been renamed Buchser Middle School; former Buchser High School on Benton Street has been renamed Santa Clara High School |
Santa Maria High School | Santa Maria | 1920 | Ethel Pope Auditorium |
Woodrow Wilson High School
|
Los Angeles | 1970 | El Soreno Middle School |
Closed and reopened
School | Location | Date closed | Date reopened |
---|---|---|---|
Branham High School | San Jose | 1991 | reopened 1999 |
Edgewood High School | West Covina
|
1988 | reopened associated to Edgewood Middle School in 2010; first graduating class was in 2014
|
Juan Cabrillo Middle School | Santa Clara | 1982 | reopened 1992[45] |
Lawndale High School | Lawndale | 1981 | reopened 1997[46] |
Palos Verdes High School | Palos Verdes
|
1991 | reopened 2002 |
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