The Berkeley Unified School District ( BUSD ) is the public school district for the city of Berkeley , California , United States. The district is managed by the Superintendent of Schools, and governed by the Berkeley Board of Education, whose members are elected by voters. Its administrative offices are located in the old West Campus main building at 2020 Bonar Street, on the corner of Bonar and University Avenue .
9-635: The Berkeley Adult School (BAS) is administered by the Berkeley Unified School District . The school is located at 1701 San Pablo Avenue, between Virginia and Francisco Streets in Berkeley, California . The Berkeley Adult School began in 1881 as the Berkeley Evening School and was located at Berkeley High School , with adjunct Evening Trade Schools located at Burbank Junior High and Edison Junior High. It
18-488: The Fall of 1966. A third junior high school, Burbank, was closed, demolished and rebuilt (by 1968) as the high school's "West Campus", serving all the district's 9th-grade students. Two years later, in the Fall of 1968, the elementary schools were integrated, utilizing the district's own expanded bus fleet. Berkeley's integration plan, substantially modified, remains in place today. The Berkeley school district has evolved from
27-493: The Kellogg School (above Shattuck Avenue between Center Street and Allston Way). In 1927, a two-story administration building was completed at 2325 Milvia Street (at the corner of Durant Avenue, across from the grounds of Berkeley High School). Designated a seismic hazard after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake , it was put to non-school purposes beginning in 1940 and was razed in 1946, the site becoming tennis courts for
36-746: The Old City Hall at 2134 Martin Luther King Way, and in 2012 to 2020 Bonar Street (originally Luther Burbank Junior High School, then Berkeley High School West Campus, and finally the Berkeley Adult School). During and following World War II , the African American population of Berkeley, as in the entire region, increased substantially. However, the practice of racial covenants in property title deeds, together with informal discrimination ("de facto"), had resulted in
45-404: The black population being concentrated in certain sections of the city, primarily in the southwestern portions . Consequently, public schools serving those areas had a disproportionately high number of blacks while virtually no blacks attended the schools in other mostly white sections of the city. The only exception to this was Berkeley High School as it was, and remains, the only high school for
54-506: The entire district. Heightened local interest in the concerns and efforts of the civil rights movement, shared by many in the community, eventually led to the district adopting a school integration plan starting in the mid-1960s. The plan included the use of bussing to effect an integration of all the public schools in Berkeley. The first schools to be integrated under this plan were the junior high schools, Garfield and Willard, starting in
63-400: The high school. In January 1940, administrative offices were moved to 1414 Walnut Street, the original Garfield Jr. High, later University Elementary and the temporary site, after the 1923 fire , of Hillside Elementary . In 1943, Ruth Acty was hired to teach kindergarten at Longfellow school and became the district's first African American teacher. In 1979, the district offices moved to
72-423: The site of the first and oldest public school (established 1856) in Berkeley. BAS also has a cafeteria that serves freshly baked goods from the student-run kitchen. Berkeley Unified School District The Berkeley Unified School District was formed in 1936 by the merger of the city's elementary and high school districts. District administrative offices were originally (in the late 19th century) at or near
81-474: Was subsequently relocated at McKinley/East Campus by the 1960s, moving with East Campus to the former Savo Island federal housing site in 1971. The school was entirely relocated to West Campus, Berkeley High School (formerly Burbank Junior High) after that school was closed. In 2004, the school was again relocated to its current location at the former site of Franklin Elementary School, which is also
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