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25-809: It currently has five schools: Acalanes High School in Lafayette , Campolindo High School in Moraga , Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek , Miramonte High School in Orinda , and The Acalanes Center for Independent Study in Walnut Creek . A fifth campus, Del Valle High School located in Walnut Creek was closed at the end of the 1978–1979 school year and remaining students were transferred to Acalanes, Campolindo, and Las Lomas High Schools. The district's alternative school, Del Oro High School, opened on

50-477: A Saclan man at Mission San Francisco as representative of a Miwok language. The language was named "Bay Miwok" and its territorial extent was rediscovered during the 1960s (see Landholding Groups or Local Tribes section below). The Bay Miwok lived by hunting and gathering , and lived in small bands without centralized political authority. They spoke Bay Miwok also known as Saclan . They were skilled at basketry . The original Bay Miwok people's world view

75-706: A devastating population decline , and lost their language as they intermarried with other native California ethnic groups and learned the Spanish language . The Bay Miwok were not recognized by modern anthropologists or linguists until the mid-twentieth century. In fact, Alfred L. Kroeber , father of California anthropology, who knew of one of their constituent local groups, the Saklan (Saclan), from nineteenth-century manuscript sources, presumed that they spoke an Ohlone ( a.k.a. Costanoan) language. In 1955 linguist Madison Beeler recognized an 1821 vocabulary taken from

100-506: A flood. The names and general territorial areas of seven Bay Miwok-speaking land-holding groups have been inferred through indirect methods, based for the most part on information in the ecclesiastical records of missions San Francisco and San Jose. In a 1961 Ph.D. dissertation, James Bennyhoff used data from the Alphonse Pinart transcripts of the mission records to identify four more East Bay local territorial groups, in addition to

125-627: A performing arts center. Measure E bonds passed in 2008 provided for the complete renovation of the aquatic facilities, which was completed in the summer of 2011. Bay Miwok The Bay Miwok are a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok , a Native American people in Northern California who live in Contra Costa County . They joined the Franciscan mission system during the early nineteenth century, suffered

150-913: A whole (Bay, Plains, Northern Sierra, Central Sierra, and Southern Sierra) prior to Spanish contact, and 1,700 specifically for the Bay Miwok. A total of 859 Bay Miwok speakers were baptized at the Franciscan missions (479 at Mission San Francisco and 380 at Mission San Jose ), most between 1794 and 1812. By the end of 1823, only 52 of the Mission San Francisco Bay Miwoks were still alive, along with 11 of their Mission-born children. No comparable data are available for Mission San Jose that year, but by 1840 only 20 Bay Miwok people were alive there. Late nineteenth century survivors from both missions intermarried with people from other language groups. Descendants are alive today (see Present Day section below). The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of

175-698: Is a public secondary school located in Lafayette , California , United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area , within Contra Costa County . Acalanes was the first of four high schools established in the Acalanes Union High School District . It was built in 1940 on what was then a tomato field, using federal government funds with labor provided by the Works Project Administration , the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency introduced by

200-597: The Maidu and other northern California tribes. The specific myths, legends, tales, and histories of the Bay Miwok are not well documented. C. Hart Merriam published a creation story, The Birth of Wek-Wek and the Creation of Man , centered on Mt. Diablo , that was told by a Hool-poom'-ne Miwok, perhaps a descendant of the Julpun Bay Miwok of Marsh Creek, eastern Contra Costa County. One might suspect that

225-617: The Roosevelt administration . Lafayette businessman M.H. Stanley suggested the name "Acalanes", the name of Rancho Acalanes , the Mexican grant from which all land title within the City of Lafayette derives. Rancho Acalanes itself seems to have been named by its Hispanic settlers after the local Native American Bay Miwok tribe called Saklan (Saclan), referred to by Spanish missionaries as Saclanes . The first graduating class of 1941 selected

250-487: The Saclan , as members of this unique Miwok language group. "The major clues to the linguistic affiliation of these river mouth tribelets are provided by the personal names of female neophytes recorded in the baptismal registers ... Ompin, Chupcan, Julpun, and Wolwon [Volvon-ed.] are linked together by the use of a distinctive constellation of endings which appear in female personal names," he wrote. Milliken subsequently used

275-434: The "California School", consisting of a complex of rectangular single-story modern buildings in parallel rows separated by gardens, with no hallways. Its openness to the outdoors and ease of expansion were revolutionary at the time, and the format was widely copied. The campus includes a track, several fields (an astroturf field, a grass field, and a baseball field), a pool, tennis courts, two gyms, weight room, two quads, and

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300-566: The 10/11 school year. California Dataquest - AUHSD Classified Staff Report for 2010/2011 The district employed 301 teachers in the 09/10 school year, a third of which have graduate degrees. California Dataquest - Staff Education Report Total enrollment in the district in the 10/11 school year was 5,589. Enrollment in the 10/11 school year by grade is as follows: California Dataquest - District Enrollment by Grade Report Acalanes Center for Independent Study <ACIS Homepage> [1] Acalanes High School Acalanes High School

325-745: The 1770 population of the Plains and Sierra Miwok (but excluding the Bay Miwok, about whom he was not aware) at 9,000. Sherburne Cook carried out a more specific analysis of contact-period population in Alameda and Contra Costa counties west of the San Joaquin Valley, without regard to the Ohlone-Bay Miwok language boundary; he suggested a total population of 2,248. Richard Levy estimated 19,500 people for all five Eastern Miwok groups as

350-557: The Bay Miwok tribes exists from California Mission records as early as 1794. Spanish-American Franciscans set up Catholic missions in the Bay Area in the 1770s, but did not reach the Bay Miwok territory until 1794. Beginning in 1794, the Bay Miwoks were forced to migrate to the Franciscan missions, most to Mission San Francisco de Asís (of San Francisco ), but some others to Mission San José (in present-day Fremont ). All but

375-656: The Ompin and Julpun in the northeast were at the missions by the end of 1806; the latter two groups moved to Mission San José during the 1810-1812 period. The first baptisms and emigration to the missions of each tribe were: Missionary linguist Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta obtained the only extant Bay Miwok vocabulary during a visit to Mission San Francisco in 1821. Estimates for the precontact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See Population of Native California .) Alfred L. Kroeber put

400-557: The Yrgin of present-day City of Hayward and Castro Valley , had Chochenyo Ohlone signature female name endings, rather than Bay Miwok name endings. Yet they were so highly intermarried with the Jalquin that it seems possible that they and the Jalquin formed a single bilingual local tribe. Documentation of Miwok peoples dates back as early as 1579 by a priest on a ship under the command of Francis Drake . Identification and references to

425-575: The former site of Del Valle High School, closed following the 2009–2010 school year, although the district still operates Acalanes Adult Education at the Del Valle Education Center in Walnut Creek. As of 2023, Del Valle is also operational as The Acalanes Center for Independent Study . John Nickerson has served as the district's Superintendent since May, 2011. In 2004, the Acalanes Union High School district

450-467: The full corpus of Bay Miwok mythology and sacred narrative shared the motifs that the linguistically related and better-documented ethnographic Coast Miwok and Sierra Miwok held in common. All Miwok peoples believed in animal and human spirits, and saw the animal spirits as their ancestors. Coyote was seen as the representation of their creator god . The Sierra and Plains Miwok, as well as the Bay Miwok, believed this world began at Mount Diablo , following

475-491: The regional competition of the National Science Bowl at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . However, the school has consistently lagged behind local high schools Campolindo and Miramonte in more comprehensive rankings based on AP scores and overall academic quality. For 2013, Campolindo High School was ranked 131st in the nation by U.S. News & World Report , Miramonte was ranked 173rd, while Acalanes

500-454: The same technique, applied to the original mission records, to identify two additional local tribes—Jalquin and Tatcan—as Bay Miwok speakers. Milliken then inferred and mapped the relative locations of all seven groups, using clues from historic diaries together with mission register information regarding intermarriage patterns among East Bay local tribes. The locations of the seven Bay Miwok local tribes are generally as follows: Another group,

525-511: The school colors of blue and white. For the school sports mascot, they chose the Don (a Spanish honorary title). Acalanes offers a diverse course selection and a number of AP and honors courses. Among the electives offered are sports medicine, digital design, auto mechanics, studio arts from beginning to AP, video production, journalism, drama, photography, Mandarin (Chinese), Spanish, French, chorus, band (four groups), and orchestra. Acalanes High won

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550-517: The spirit world, and, in some areas, an annual mourning ceremony. Varying forms of the Kuksu Cult were shared with other indigenous ethnic groups of Central California, such as their neighbors the northern Ohlone , Maidu , Patwin , Pomo , and Wappo . However Kroeber observed less "specialized cosmogony " in the Miwok, which he termed one of the "southern Kuksu-dancing groups", in comparison to

575-741: Was a form of Shamanism . As they were centrally located along an arc of Miwok-speaking groups across Central California, the Bay Miwok probably shared the Kuksu religion ceremonial motifs common to both the Coast Miwok to the west and Plains Miwok to the east. The Kuksu religion (dubbed the Kuksu Cult by early historians) included a cycle of elaborate dancing ceremonies, each with its own group of actors and distinctive feather-decorated regalia, an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms, puberty rites of passage , shamanic intervention with

600-421: Was ranked 275th. Football - 2023 Division 3-AA Champions Girls basketball - 1999 Division 3 Champions Girls volleyball - 2016 Division 3 Champions Football - 2023 NCS IV Champions Boys basketball - 2007 NCS III Champions Baseball- 1997, 1998, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 NCS Champions In 1939, Acalanes was the first school designed by Ernest Kump and became the prototype for what came to be called

625-669: Was ranked the second highest in the state of California, behind only Los Gatos/Saratoga (LGJUHSD) in Los Gatos. In 2007, the Acalanes Union High School district was ranked the number one district in the state of California based on the STAR Test scores. The district includes Acalanes Ridge , Castle Hill , Lafayette , Moraga , Orinda , San Miguel , and Saranap . It also includes much of Contra Costa Centre , Shell Ridge , and Walnut Creek , and portions of Alamo and Reliez Valley . The district employed 167 classified employees in

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