Oakland Unified School District
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Oakland Unified School District is a public education school district which operates elementary schools (K-5), middle schools (6-8), and high schools (9-12) in Oakland, California.
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[edit] Schools
[edit] Elementary schools
Lincoln Elementary School Crocker Highlands Elementary School]]
- Franklin Elementary School
Prescott Elementry School Martin Luther King Elementry
[edit] Middle schools
- Alliance Academy
- Bret Harte Middle School
- Calvin Simmons Middle School
- Claremont Middle School
- Cole Middle School
- Coliseum College Prep
- Community Day Middle School
- Edna M Brewer Middle School
- Elmhurst Community Prep
- Explore Middle School
- Frick Middle School
- Havenscourt Middle School
- James Madison Middle School
- KIPP Bridge College Prep
- KIZMET Academy
- Melrose Leadership Academy
- Montera Middle School
- Peralta Creek Middle School
- Roosevelt Middle School
- ROOTS International Academy
- United for Success Academy
- Urban Promise Academy
- Westlake Middle School
[edit] High schools
- Castlemont Community of Small Schools
- Fremont Federation of High Schools
- McClymonds High School/McClymonds Educational Complex
- Oakland Technical High School
- Oakland High School
- Oakland School for the Arts
- Skyline High School
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[edit] History
The Oakland Unified School District was founded in the 19th Century as part of the city's birth as a bedroom community for families from San Francisco. Today the district includes over 120 schools including several dozen sites that have been founded or redesigned as part a nation-wide small schools movement.
[edit] Ebonics controversy
In December 1996, the Oakland school board made nationwide news when it passed a resolution declaring "Ebonics", also known as African American Vernacular English, a language of its own, "genetically based" and not a dialect of English.[1]. The move was lambasted by critics, based largely on the misconception that schools would be "teaching" Ebonics rather than standard English.[2]
[edit] Famous graduates
Famous Oakland public school graduates include Hollywood actors Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood, and NBA basketball all-stars Gary Payton, Bill Russell, and Jason Kidd. Hanks, having started acting at Skyline High School, thanked his acting teacher Rawley T. Farnsworth in his speech at the Oscars for winning the Best Actor award. Hanks later donated $125,000 to the Skyline performing arts department.
