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Redwood City School District (RCSD) is the public elementary school district serving
The first school building in Redwood City was called Redwood City Grammar School (also known as the Redwood City Public School) which was opened in September 1895 and located on Broadway Street across from the courthouse. In the early years of the school, the first two floors of the building were dedicated to the elementary school and the third floor was occupied by Sequoia High School. This was the only school on the Peninsula between San Francisco and Santa Clara at the time of its opening. By 1927, the Redwood City Grammar School was demolished and replaced by the Fox Theatre.
One of the earliest graduating students in the RCSD school district was
Redwood City, California
Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a ...
. As of 2019–2020 school year, the district serves over 8,500 students in 16 schools.
Schools
Elementary Schools (grades K-8) * Clifford School * Roy Cloud School * Garfield School * Hoover School * Selby Lane School * Roosevelt School * North Star Academy (grades 3–8), is aCalifornia Distinguished School
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, and received a Blue Ribbon School
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award for 2012. North Star Academy and McKinley Institute of Technology share the same campus.
Elementary Schools (grades K-5)
* Adelante Selby Spanish Immersion School (grades K-6), is a school with a Spanish and English dual-immersion program. Was formerly known as Selby Lane Elementary School which merged with Adelante Spanish Immersion School in 2020.
* Fair Oaks School
* Henry Ford School
* Hawes School
* Orion Alternative Elementary School, which merged in 2020 with the John Gill School and offers a Mandarin language
Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of ...
immersion program.
* Taft School
Middle Schools (grades 6–8)
* Kennedy Middle School
* McKinley Institute of Technology
History
The first school building in Redwood City was called Redwood City Grammar School (also known as the Redwood City Public School) which was opened in September 1895 and located on Broadway Street across from the courthouse. In the early years of the school, the first two floors of the building were dedicated to the elementary school and the third floor was occupied by Sequoia High School. This was the only school on the Peninsula between San Francisco and Santa Clara at the time of its opening. By 1927, the Redwood City Grammar School was demolished and replaced by the Fox Theatre.
One of the earliest graduating students in the RCSD school district was Roy Cloud
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin.
In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...
, he graduated from Sequoia High School in 1898. Cloud became a teacher at Redwood City Grammar School, while working on his degree from Stanford University.
A school building nearby on Broadway Street near Middlefield Road existed from 1904 until 1928 and occupied an elementary school named Central School.
Between 1916 and 1932, five new schools are built including Washington School (now closed), Lincoln School (now closed), Garfield School, John Gill School and McKinley School.
See also
* Sequoia High School *Sequoia Union High School District
The Sequoia Union High School District is a public union school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving the southern San Mateo County communities of Atherton, Belmont, East Palo Alto, Ladera, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Portola V ...
References
External links
* {{authority control Education in Redwood City, California School districts in San Mateo County, California