McClymonds High School is a public high school in the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, California, USA.
In addition to being the third oldest high school in Oakland, it is the larger of the two high schools in West Oakland (the other being Bunche High School), and the only high school in West Oakland operated by the Oakland Unified School District.
In January 1915, McClymonds High School started in a small building formerly occupied by Oakla...
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McClymonds High School is a public high school in the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, California, USA.
In addition to being the third oldest high school in Oakland, it is the larger of the two high schools in West Oakland (the other being Bunche High School), and the only high school in West Oakland operated by the Oakland Unified School District.
In January 1915, McClymonds High School started in a small building formerly occupied by Oakland Technical High School. Originally, 60 students were enrolled in the school, which at that time was called Vocational High School. It was the first public school in California to offer summer school.
The school was named after J.W. McClymonds, who at one time was the superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District.
In 1927, with $325,000 spent on additional classrooms, the school became more of a regular school than a summer school. Then in 1933, the legislative act was passed, regulating school building construction. It said that...
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