Hillside Elementary School
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Hillside Elementary School is a now-closed public elementary school
located in the hills of Berkeley, California
. It sits on the block bounded by Le Roy Avenue, Buena Vista Way and La Loma Avenue. Hillside is registered as a local historic landmark. The Berkeley Unified School District
(BUSD) built the present structure on the site of several homes that were destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley fire
, which also destroyed Hillside's predecessor on the nearby southwest corner of Le Roy and Virginia Street. BUSD closed Hillside because of a declining school age population, and because it sits near or on the Hayward Fault. Area residents use the school's playground as a de facto neighborhood park.
In 2009, with sale of the site to a housing developer pending, local residients proposed a special assesement district to fund purchase of the playground section of the site.
In June 2011 the District signed a preliminary purchase agreement with the non-profit German International School of Silicon Valley
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
located in the hills of Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
. It sits on the block bounded by Le Roy Avenue, Buena Vista Way and La Loma Avenue. Hillside is registered as a local historic landmark. The Berkeley Unified School District
Berkeley Unified School District
Berkeley Unified School District is the public school district for the city of Berkeley, California. Its administrative offices are located in Berkeley's old city hall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Center Street and Allston Way...
(BUSD) built the present structure on the site of several homes that were destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley fire
1923 Berkeley Fire
The 1923 Berkeley Fire was a conflagration which consumed some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely-built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California on September 17, 1923....
, which also destroyed Hillside's predecessor on the nearby southwest corner of Le Roy and Virginia Street. BUSD closed Hillside because of a declining school age population, and because it sits near or on the Hayward Fault. Area residents use the school's playground as a de facto neighborhood park.
In 2009, with sale of the site to a housing developer pending, local residients proposed a special assesement district to fund purchase of the playground section of the site.
In June 2011 the District signed a preliminary purchase agreement with the non-profit German International School of Silicon Valley
See also
- La Loma ParkLa Loma ParkLa Loma Park is the historic name, no longer in common use, of a tract of land located in the Berkeley Hills section of the city of Berkeley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Spanish word loma means "rise/low hill". It was the property of Captain Richard Parks Thomas, a veteran of the ...
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