Berkeley Unified School District

The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) is the public school district for the city of Berkeley, California. The District is governed by the Berkeley Board of Education whose members are elected by voters, and managed by the Superintendent of Schools. Its administrative offices are located in the old West Campus main building at 2020 Bonar Street, corner of Bonar and University Avenue.

History

The current "unified" District was created on July 1, 1936 with the merger of the Berkeley Schools District and the Berkeley High School District.[1]

District administrative offices were originally (in the late 19th century) at or near the Kellogg School (above Shattuck Avenue between Center Street and Allston Way).

In 1927 a two-story administration building was completed at 2325 Milvia Street (at the corner of Durant Avenue, across from the grounds of Berkeley High School). Designated a seismic hazard after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, it was put to non-school purposes beginning 1940[2] and was razed sometime before 1948, the site becoming tennis courts for the high school.

In January 1940 administrative offices were moved to 1414 Walnut Street (the original Garfield Jr. High, later University Elementary and the temporary post- 1923 fire site of Hillside Elementary).

In 1979, the District offices moved to the Old City Hall at 2134 Martin Luther King Way, and in 2012 to 2020 Bonar Street (originally Luther Burbank Junior High School, then Berkeley High School West Campus, and finally the Berkeley Adult School).[3]

Schools

Closed

See also

References

  1. The City of Berkeley, Mary Johnson, 1942, p.56 (typewritten mss in Berkeley Public Library History Room)
  2. Berkeley Daily Gazette, Aug.10, 1944, p.5
  3. Campus Project

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