- Ellwood P. Cubberley High School
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Cubberley High School was one of three public high schools in Palo Alto California. Opened in 1956, Cubberley High was located at 4000 Middlefield Road. It was finally closed in 1979 as a reaction to declining enrollment and decreased revenues following Proposition 13. The other local high schools Gunn High School and Palo Alto High School had been created on friendly land transfers from Stanford University and if educational use was to be terminated, the land would revert back to the university for the value at the time of transfer. The Palo Alto Unified School District board, requiring an infusion of cash, determined Cubberley could be sold at more contemporary rates. Later it was discovered that it could only be sold to a non-profit organization. That has resulted in the campus being converted into the Cubberley Community Center, on an annual lease from the school district to the city of Palo Alto.[1]
Cubberley was the scene of the famous Third Wave experiment by teacher Ron Jones, which was later portrayed in a film and TV Special.
According to Palo Alto Online, current enrollment projections done by Palo Alto Unified suggest that Cubberley may need to be reopened as a fourth middle school by 2015 and ultimately be reopened as a third high school by 2021[1]
Among the alumni of Cubberley is famed theoretical physicist Michio Kaku
See also
- List of closed secondary schools in California
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Categories:- Educational institutions established in 1956
- Educational institutions disestablished in 1979
- Defunct schools in California
- High schools in California
- California school stubs
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