Campbell Union High School District

Campbell Union High School District (CUHSD)
3235 Union Avenue, San Jose, CA 95124 San Jose, California
Type	Public
Grades	9-12
Established	August 13, 1900
Superintendent	Robert Bravo
Students	7800
Staff	550
Website	http://www.cuhsd.org

The Campbell Union High School District, referred to as the CUHSD, is a school district in the greater San Jose, California, USA area, including Campbell and Saratoga. Its five main campuses, Branham, Del Mar, Leigh, Prospect, and Westmont, serve more than 7800 students, and employ 550 teachers and staff. Since 1986, schools in the district have been recognized as distinguished schools 7 times, the last being in 2007. As of 2016, the Superintendent is Robert Bravo.

The following are schools operated by the CUHSD:

Note: Student enrollment figures based on 2002-2003 school year data

The following are now closed schools formerly operated by the CUHSD:

The five-member Board of Trustees, which establishes policies for the district includes Stacey Brown, Matthew Dean, Wendy Dillingham-Plew, Kalen Gallagher, and Linda Goytia. Members are elected to staggered four-year terms. [1]

Campbell Union High School District was organized on August 13, 1900. The first high school to open its doors as part of the district was Campbell High School (now closed) on September 14, 1900 with a registration of 35 students, consisting of 23 girls and 12 boys. Two teachers were hired to educate the students: Professor E. A. Powers and Miss J. M. Newton. The first graduating class was one student, Charles Beardsley, who went on to Stanford and became a lawyer, thus proving Campbell High School's academic merit. [2]

In the late '50s, the district began to plan for the baby boom after World War II, and began building additional campuses. First was Camden High School (closed in 1980), which was begun in 1955, after which followed Del Mar, which was begun in 1957, then Blackford (now closed under that name) in '59, Leigh in '60, then Westmont in '61, Branham in '66, and Prospect in '68. The largest campus is Leigh, the smallest is Prospect. Most of the campuses built in that era follow the same general design plan, including a quad as an important fixture, and rows of wings of classrooms. [3] The superintendent of the CUHSD at the time of the district's expansion, Larry Hill, made a deal with the brickyard adjacent to Del Mar High School, (which is now Del Mar's football Bowl), to get the 'clinker' bricks at a discount. These were used in all the schools the district was building at the time, which is why many of the older buildings have a lot of brick in them. [4]

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