Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto)
Ravenswood High School | |
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Location | |
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
History
The school opened in 1958 with 629 students. By 1964 enrollment had risen to 1,285.[1]
However,
Enrollment briefly recovered but declined again, to 823 in 1974. Few parents were willing to bus their children to Ravenswood, and there was increasing racial tension in the district high schools, with
The closure of Ravenswood meant that the predominantly minority students of East Palo Alto were bused to other schools in the district, such as
In 1976, students published a book celebrating the school.[8] The 1995 play Circle in the Dirt by Cherríe Moraga examines mid-1990s gentrification in East Palo Alto and parts of the play recount the closure of Ravenswood and the long-lasting cultural impact of that closure on the community.[9] In 2002, it was memorialized in a mural created by the Mural, Music and the Arts Project at the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula in East Palo Alto, called Remembering Ravenswood: East Palo Alto's Educational Sacrifice.[10]
Notable people
Alumni
- Nate Branch, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Rudy Law, outfielder for Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox
- Mike McCurry (Class of 1972), White House press secretary
- Joseph E. Prince (Class of 1972), Cal Poly Mustangs sprinter
Faculty
- Tommie Smith, track coach
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Ravenswood High School, 1958-1976: About Ravenswood High School". Sequoia District Alumni. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
- ^ ISBN 9780807757437.
- ^ ISBN 9780199861477.
- ^ Rickford, pp. 109–10.
- ^ Kazak, Don (June 16, 1995). "East Palo Alto marks start of a new era". Palo Alto Weekly – via Sequoia District Alumni.
- ^ Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; Bingham McCutchen LLP (July 2013). "Pushing the Line: Addressing the Inequities in Sequoia Union High School District's Student Assignment Plan" (PDF).
- San Jose Mercury News.
- OCLC 3275535.
- ^ "East side story". www.paloaltoonline.com. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ Chappell, Sharon Verner (2011). "Utilizing an Aesthetics of Destabilization to Read the Public Pedagogy in Young People's Community-based Social Justice Artworks" (PDF). Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 27 (3): 152–54.
Further reading
- Lowe, Robert (1989). Ravenswood High School and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Sequoia Union High School District (PhD dissertation). Stanford University. OCLC 518623806.