California School for the Blind
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500 Walnut Avenue Fremont, CA 94536 United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°33′47″N 121°57′56″W / 37.562935°N 121.965471°W |
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| Established | 1860 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Sharon Z. Sacks |
| Faculty | 25 |
| Grades | ages 3 to 21 |
| Number of students | 82 |
| Campus size | 25 acres (100,000 m2) |
| Website | http://www.csb-cde.ca.gov/ |
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State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
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| Location | Berkeley, California |
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| Coordinates | 37°51′46″N 122°14′46″W / 37.862826°N 122.246179°WCoordinates: 37°51′46″N 122°14′46″W / 37.862826°N 122.246179°W |
| Area | Bounded by Dwight Way, City line, Derby and Warring Streets |
| Built | 1867-1914 |
| NRHP Reference # | 82000962 |
| Added to NRHP | 1982-10-14 |
The California School for the Blind is a public educational institution for blind children, K-12, located in Fremont, California. Its campus is located next to the California School for the Deaf.
The San Francisco area's education of blind children began in 1860 with the organization of the privately supported Society for the Instruction and Maintenance of the Indigent Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind in California by Mrs. Frances Clark. She served as the first principal of the school until 1865, when Dr. Warring Wilkinson was brought to the school. Dr. Wilkinson is credited with beginning the efforts to make the school wholly state-supported and seeing the school, then known as the California State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind through its move to what would later become Berkeley in 1867.
A 1906 amendment to the Political Code changed the school's name to the California Institution for the Deaf and Blind and established the school's place as a part of the California State school system. Dr. Wilkinson retired in 1910. The Legislature voted in 1914 to substitute the term "School" for "Institution," again changing the school's name, this time to the California School for the Deaf and Blind.
The school was separated by a legislative act in 1922 into separate programs, the California School for the Blind (CSB) and the California School for the Deaf, although formal separation with the completion of a new classroom building did not occur until July 1929. California School for the Blind was given authorization by the state legislature in 1943 to admit the deaf-blind, becoming the third school in the country to establish a deaf-blind program. The first deaf-blind student to graduate from CSB was graduated in 1949.
The school's enrollment peaked in 1965 at 167 students. By 1973, the California Department of Education determined that the school needed to be relocated to a site more amenable to meeting accessibility for students with limited mobility and updating facilities to meet current earthquake and fire code standards. A new campus was constructed in Fremont, California and the school moved to its current home there in 1980.
The school is a member of Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB).
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