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Oakland Technical High School

Oakland Technical High School
Oakland Technical High.jpg
Front entrance to Oakland Technical High School
Address
4351 Broadway
Oakland, California 94611
USA
Information
Type Public
Established 1914
School district Oakland USD
Principal Co-principals Staci Ross-Morrison and Josue Diaz
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1,900-2,100 (2016-17)
Color(s) Purple and gold         
Athletics conference CIF Oakland Section
Mascot Bobo the Bulldog
Nickname Tech, Oakland Tech
Accreditation WASC
Newspaper The Scribe
Yearbook The Scribe Annual
Website

Coordinates: 37°49′56.07″N 122°15′14.64″W / 37.8322417°N 122.2540667°W / 37.8322417; -122.2540667

Oakland Technical High School, known locally as Oakland Tech or simply "Tech", is a public high school in Oakland, California, United States, and is operated under the jurisdiction of the Oakland Unified School District. It is one of six comprehensive public high school campuses in Oakland. Oakland Tech's attendance jurisdiction includes several neighborhoods, including Oakland Chinatown, Rockridge, North Oakland, and Temescal.

Tech received the maximum 6-year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 2009.

Oakland Tech's main building was built in 1914 and resembles the main science building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the 1970s, when many California schools were being demolished and rebuilt for earthquake safety, Tech's main building was determined to be too historic to tear down. Instead, it was gutted and rebuilt on the inside, while its historic exterior was preserved. The school was declared the 99th historic landmark by the city of Oakland on July 23, 1985.

While Tech was closed for earthquake retrofitting in the 1970s, the school was displaced to 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (formerly Grove Street). This location is sometimes erroneously referred to "Old Tech" but was actually the campus of the now defunct University High School (1923-1948). That campus had then served as Merritt College from 1954 to 1966 and is considered the birthplace of the Black Panthers.


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