Alameda High School
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The school's 1920s auditorium was designed in the Neo-Classical Revival style.
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2201 Encinal Avenue Alameda, CA 94501 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Always High Standards |
| Established | 1874 |
| School district | Alameda Unified School District |
| Principal | Robert Ithurburn |
| Faculty | Approximately 100 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1868 (2010) |
| Color(s) | Gold and white (and, unofficially, black) |
| Athletics | Football, basketball, track & field, soccer, softball, volleyball, tennis, baseball, swimming & diving, golf, cross country, badminton, and water polo |
| Athletics conference | CIF North Coast Section – WACC |
| Mascot | Hornets |
| Website | School website |
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Alameda High School
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| Location | 2200 Central Ave., Alameda, California |
| Coordinates | 37°46′16.96″N 122°17′2.17″W / 37.7713778°N 122.2839361°WCoordinates: 37°46′16.96″N 122°17′2.17″W / 37.7713778°N 122.2839361°W |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Carl Werner; builder: Kump, Ernest J. |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 77000280 |
| Added to NRHP | May 12, 1977 |
Alameda High School is a public coeducational high school serving grades 9-12. It is located in Alameda, California, United States, and is part of the Alameda Unified School District.
It was at the Alameda Board of Education meeting held on March 6, 1874, that the suggestion to open a "Preparatory Department of a High School" was first presented. On April 17, 1874, C. Y. Johns was elected the first principal. Classes began with 52 students, in July 1874, in a rented room over a drugstore on Park Street known as "Boehmer's Hall". The building still exists today as the China House restaurant.
Boehmer's Hall was only temporary. A new building was already being built on a site on Santa Clara at Chestnut, and was completed and occupied in 1875. The high school shared space with the Grammar Department in what became known as Haight School. The site is still occupied by this school today. The class of 1878, totalling nine students, was the first to graduate from Alameda High School.
It wasn't long before the number of students enrolled in the high school outgrew the space available at Haight. Temporary quarters were located at the Porter school, located on Alameda Avenue, by 1900. A campaign was started for a new separate high school building.
With the help of the high school student body, a bond was passed in the city for the new school. The cornerstone was laid in 1902 on the new site at Central and Walnut. The building was dedicated in 1903 and occupied in time for the December 1903 term.
Continued growth in enrollment required an even larger campus. In 1925 a new bond issue was voted on. The new school, dedicated in 1926, comprised three connected buildings, including the original 1903 structure which was refurbished to blend with the architectural style of the other two. The architecture, designed by local architect Carl Werner, is early twentieth-century Neo-Classical Revival in nature, evoking images of ancient Greek temples with Ionic columns in front of the Kofman Auditorium, a facility known throughout the Bay Area as one of the best of the local playhouses.
By 1955, the "old building" had outlived its usefulness and was replaced with what became known as the "new building" by subsequent students until 1977.
Campaigns to replace old public buildings with newer earthquake-safe structures led to the construction of the newest high school building, across the street from the established campus, on Encinal at Walnut.
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