Oakland Technical High School
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Front entrance to Oakland Technical High School
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4351 Broadway Oakland, California 94611 USA |
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| 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 | www |
Coordinates: 37°49′56.07″N 122°15′14.64″W / 37.8322417°N 122.2540667°W
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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