Here is a partial list of the oldest schools in California.

1846

*The first English-language school in California opened at Mission Santa Clara in 1847. It was founded by Olive Mann Isbell, who started the school with 25 pupils in a small adobe at the Mission Santa Clara for $2 a month. The school later moved that spring to

Monterey Monterey (; es, Monterrey; Ohlone: ) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under bot ...

1849

Following the establishment of a public school system in the 1849 Constitution (debated and written in Colton Hall), Colton Hall in Monterey served as the area's public school 1849-1851. Built from 1847 to 1849 as Monterey's town hall and school house from 1847 to 1849, it also served as the public school from 1872 to 1896.

1851

*California Wesleyan College is founded. California Wesleyan later became College of the Pacific, and is now known as University of the Pacific in Stockton. It is the first and oldest chartered university in California; its date of charter is July 10, 1851. Its original campus was in Santa Clara; it then moved to College Park in San Jose which is now Bellarmine College Preparatory. *Santa Clara College is founded, which later became University of Santa Clara and is now known as Santa Clara University in Santa Clara. Although it did not receive its charter for several years, Santa Clara was the first institution of higher education in California to enroll students. *College of Notre Dame in Belmont, now known as

Notre Dame de Namur University Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) is a private Catholic university in Belmont, California. It is the third oldest college in California and the first college in the state authorized to grant the baccalaureate degree to women. In 2021, the ...

, is founded. This was the first women's college in California. The university is now co-ed. *The pre-collegiate division of Santa Clara College later became Santa Clara Preparatory and then Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. This is the first oldest high school in California. * Notre Dame High School in San Jose is founded. This is first all-girls high school was founded in Santa Clara to complement the College of Santa Clara.

1852

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in San Francisco. This is the oldest public school in California. It is the only one of the original 7 gold rush schools in San Francisco that is still in existence. *

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

, the oldest women's college west of the Rockies, is founded in Benicia, California. It moved to its current location in Oakland in 1871.

1854

*Oak Grove Elementary School in Sebastopol. *Saratoga Elementary School in Saratoga.

1855

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...

is founded as Saint Ignatius Academy. It is the first university in San Francisco. The

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would later separate from the university in 1927. *Burnett Elementary School in Morgan Hill. The school is named after Peter Burnett, pioneer and first governor of California. *Linda Elementary School in Linda, California.

1856

* St. Clare School in Santa Clara is founded. It is the second oldest primary school in California still operating. * Orchard School began as a school for settlers in San Jose in 1856. * Lowell High School in San Francisco is founded. It is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi, and still operating. *

Sacramento High School Sacramento Charter High School ("Sac High") is an independent public charter high school in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, California. Originally founded in 1856, Sacramento High is the second oldest public high school in California. I ...

in Sacramento is the second oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River, and it is still operating.

1857

* Minns' Evening Normal School was founded as a private school in San Francisco. It became First Normal School, a public institution, by an act of the California State Legislature on May 2, 1862, and ultimately became

San Jose State University San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) sy ...

. * Dunbar Elementary School was established in 1857 near its present location. * Vernon School was established in what is now Verona, Sutter County, California in 1857. The school was housed in a hotel and then the town bowling alley. In 1863 a "new" schoolhouse was built which is still standing. It is possibly the oldest standing schoolhouse in the state. *Covina High School was founded in 1857, originally as Union High School in Covina, CA. It is the oldest school in the San Gabriel Valley.

1858

*Little Shasta Elementary Two Room School in Montague (Siskiyou County) is still operating today. It houses approximately 30 students ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade and it is first Elementary School in State of California.

1861

* Chapman University, one of the oldest institutions of higher education in California, is founded under the name Hesperian College, in Woodland, near Sacramento.

1863

Saint Mary's College of California Saint Mary's College of California is a private Catholic college in Moraga, California. Established in 1863, it is affiliated with the Catholic Church and administered by the De La Salle Brothers. The college offers undergraduate and graduate ...

is founded in San Francisco. It later moved to Oakland, and moved again in 1928 to its current location in Moraga. * San Jose High Academy, the oldest public high school in San Jose, is founded. *

Heald College Heald College (1863 –2015) was a private for-profit businesscareer college with its main campus in San Francisco, California. It offered courses in the fields of healthcare, business, legal, and technology. Beginning in 2012, it also offer ...

was founded in San Francisco. Eventually, Heald College expanded to twelve campuses in California, Oregon and Hawaii before ceasing operation in 2015.

1864

Toland Medical College The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant medical school in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts r ...

, later the

UCSF School of Medicine The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the ol ...

of the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It con ...

is founded in San Francisco. The

is the oldest medical school in California and the Western United States. *Outside Creek School District, located in Tulare County, is founded. The school district is still in operation serving grades K-8. * rowns Elementary Schoollocated in East nicolaus California is the oldest elementary school in sutter country California.

1865

Loyola High School (Los Angeles, California) Loyola High School is a private, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory high school for boys in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was established in 1865 and is part of the Society of Jesus. It is the oldest continuously run educational inst ...

was founded in 1865 as St. Vincent's College. In 1919, the Vincentians agreed to transfer management of the school to the Jesuits. It is the oldest continuously run educational institution in Southern California. * Lincoln School, founded in what is now the town of Cupertino in Santa Clara County at the southeast corner of Prospect and Mountain View-Saratoga Roads (presently Saratoga Sunnyvale Road). Lincoln would eventually be incorporated into Cupertino Union School District.

1866

* San Pedro Street School is founded in Los Angeles by the predecessor of LAUSD. As of 2021 it remains open at its original site, and is thus the oldest school of any kind in the LAUSD system.

1867

* San Antonio School, founded in what is now on the border of Cupertino and South Los Altos in Santa Clara County near the northwest corner of Foothill Bvld. and Cristo Rey Dr. San Antonio would eventually be incorporated into Cupertino Union School District.

1868

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is founded in Oakland; the school moved to its present

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location in 1873 and is now the flagship institution of the UC system. *

Washington Union School District The Washington Union School District is a school district outside Holywood county shwentsil park, California, Salinas, California. It was established in 1869. Its middle school, San Benancio, Monterey County, California, San Benancio Middle Sch ...

is founded on the outskirts of Salinas. * Lee School was founded three miles south of the town of Nicolaus, Sutter County and six miles north of the town Vernon on the Garden Highway. It stayed in operation until 1939. One of the early instructors was Harriett Stoddard Lee who is given credit as the founder of Mother's Day in California. * Union Hill School District is founded just outside of Grass Valley. *Franklin Elementary School in San Jose.

1869

* Collins School, founded in what is now the city of Cupertino at the intersection of Homestead Rd. and Sunnyvale Saratoga Rd. Collins would eventually be incorporated into Cupertino Union School District. The original schoolhouse was replaced by a larger facility in 1889 which is used still today by the Cupertino De Oro Club and is on the city's register of Historical Sites. Collins school would eventually be incorporated into the Cupertino Union School District. * Oakland High School is founded, the first high school in the East Bay.
Prescott Elementary School
(Oakland, California), was established in 1869 to serve students and families in historic West Oakland. Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first African-American teacher, taught here starting in 1925–13 years before any other school hired a black teacher.

1870

* St. Vincent Ferrer, one of the oldest schools in Solano County, is established as the Catholic Free School in Vallejo, California. Its first diplomas were received in 1880. It was co-educational until 1968 when the campus was split between St. Vincent's (all girls) and St. Patrick's (all boys). In the Fall of 1987, the school was fully relocated to Benicia Road in Vallejo, CA and renamed St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School. The original high school building remains on Florida Street in Vallejo as a parish building. * Pioneer Union Elementary School District in

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. Founded to serve the community of Grangeville.

1872

*Santa Clara High School is established in 1872 as a public school serving the City of Santa Clara.

1873

Los Angeles High School Los Angeles High School is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are royal blue and white and the teams are called the Romans. Los Angeles High School is a pub ...

, the oldest public high school in Southern California and in the Los Angeles Unified School District, is founded. * Petaluma High School, the oldest high school in Sonoma County.

1874

* Santa Rosa High School is founded, opening the doors to its current location in 1924. It is the 9th school chartered in California history. *

Alameda High School Alameda High School is a co-educational state high school serving grades 9–12. It is located in Alameda, California, United States, and is part of the Alameda Unified School District. History The suggestion to open a "Preparatory Department o ...

is established by the Alameda Board of Education, starting in several locations before moving to its current location in 1926 to meet a growing student population.

1875

Santa Barbara High School Santa Barbara Senior High School, "Home of the Dons," is situated on a sprawling campus in Santa Barbara, California in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. Among the oldest high schools in California and one of five high schools in the Dis ...

is founded; it is the oldest high school in Santa Barbara County.

1876

* St. Mary's High School is founded in Stockton. Lammersville Elementary School District started as a one-school district, near Tracy, California. Christian Brothers High School is founded in

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1878

* Abraham Lincoln High School, the second oldest public high school in Southern California and in the Los Angeles Unified School District, is founded.
St. Peter's School
the oldest continuous catholic elementary school in San Francisco.

1880

Healdsburg High School Healdsburg High School is a high school in Healdsburg, California, Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, United States. School information Healdsburg High School is a comprehensive four-year school for grades nine through twelve, and was founde ...

opened in Sonoma County. *The

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, California's oldest private research university, is founded.

1881

Notre Dame Academy for girls high school is established by the sisters of Notre Dame in Alameda, CA. In 1932 St. Joseph's High School for boys was established by the Brothers of Mary on the same block of Chestnut St. In 1985 the schools combined into a co-ed high school now calle
Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School.

1882

*The Southern Branch of the California State Normal School opens in

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. This became the

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in 1919 and moved to its present site on the west side of Los Angeles in 1929. *

Pacific Union College Pacific Union College (PUC) is a private liberal arts college in Angwin, California. It is the only four-year college in Napa County. It is a coeducational residential college with an almost exclusively undergraduate student body. PUC is accre ...

is founded as Healdsburg Academy in Healdsburg, California and moved to Angwin, California in 1909. Pacific Union College is the only college in Napa County. * The Academy of Our Lady of Peace is founded; it is the first and oldest school in San Diego, California. *

San Diego High School San Diego High School (SDHS) is an urban public high school located on the southern edge of Balboa Park, in San Diego, California, United States. It is the oldest high school in the San Diego Unified School District, one of the oldest public sc ...

, the oldest public high school in San Diego and San Diego County, is founded. *

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is founded in Los Angeles's Chinatown. * Doyle School, located at the corner of Stevens Creek Blvd and Doyle Rd (now paved over by Hwy 280). Doyle was the last of the "original 4" one-room school houses in what later became Cupertino Union School District.

1883

*Sierra Normal College (now

Placer High School Placer High School is a public high school located in Auburn, California, United States, and is part of the Placer Union High School District. Auburn is located northeast of Sacramento, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mounta ...

) in Auburn is the oldest high school in Placer County. *

San Bernardino High School San Bernardino High School (SBHS) is an American public high school and city located at 1850 North E Street within San Bernardino, California and a member of the San Bernardino City Unified School District. SBHS was granted charter as a city in 196 ...

in San Bernardino is the oldest high school in San Bernardino County. *

Modesto High School Modesto High School is a public high school in Modesto, California, United States. It offers the International Baccalaureate Program and the Avid program, Performing Arts Program and was the first public school to do so in the Central Valley of ...

is founded in Modesto. * Zion Lutheran School, K-8 is founded in Oakland. * Chaffey College is founded in Ontario.

1884

Woodbury University Woodbury University is a private university in Burbank, California, with a satellite campus in San Diego. History The school was founded in 1884 as Woodbury's Business College by its namesake, F. C. Woodbury, formerly a partner in Heald's Busi ...

is founded as Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, making it the second oldest institution of higher learning in Los Angeles. *

Santa Monica High School Santa Monica High School, officially abbreviated to SaMoHi, is located in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 1891, it changed location several times in its early years before settling into its present campus at 601 Pico Boulevard. It is a part o ...

is founded in Santa Monica. * Pasadena High School is founded 135 years ago in Pasadena CA

1885

Chaffey High School Chaffey High School is a public high school in Ontario, California, United States. It is part of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District and rests on approximately , making it one of the largest high schools by area in California. The schoo ...

is founded by William and George Chaffey in Ontario.

1887

* Riverside Polytechnic High School is founded in Riverside, California. * Occidental College is founded in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock. *

Whittier College Whittier College (Whittier Academy (1887–1901)) is a private liberal arts college in Whittier, California. It is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and, as of fall 2022, had approximately 1,300 (undergraduate and graduate) students. It was ...

, the first Quaker college on the west coast, is founded in Whittier. *

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became t ...

, the founding institution of the Claremont Consortium, is founded in Pomona. It moved to Claremont in 1889. * Chico Normal School (no
California State University, Chico
is founded in Chico, the second normal school in the state. * Cogswell College (o
Cogswell Polytechnical College
was founded as a high school in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

and is the first technical training institution in the West. It moved to

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in 1985 and Sunnyvale in 1994.

1888

Santa Barbara Business College Santa Barbara Business College (SBBCollege) was a private, for-profit college with multiple locations in California. It was founded in 1888 as a co-ed finishing college in Santa Barbara. SBBCollege expanded its program fields and campus location ...

, California's oldest technical school, is founded in Santa Barbara. *

San Rafael High School San Rafael High School is a public high school located at 150 Third St. in San Rafael, California, United States. The school is part of the San Rafael City Schools school district. Its official nickname is the Bulldog; however, its athletic team ...

, oldest High School in Marin County, is founded in San Rafael California. Crafton Elementary School in Redlands, California

1889

* Marlborough School, Los Angeles' oldest private school for girls, is founded by Mary Caswell. *

The Thacher School The Thacher School is an elite private co-educational boarding school in Ojai, California. Founded in 1889 as a boys' school, it is now the oldest co-educational boarding school in California. Girls were first admitted in 1977. The first co-ed gra ...

, California's oldest coed boarding school, is founded in

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by Sherman Day Thacher. *

Santa Ana High School Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States. The school was established in 1889. Notable alumni * Original members of the surf band The Chantays * Barry Asher, professional bowler * To ...

, the oldest high school in

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, is founded. *

Fresno High School Fresno High School is a four-year secondary school located in Fresno, California. Fresno High is the oldest high school in the Fresno metropolitan area and one of the few International Baccalaureate schools. As of 2021, Linda Laettner is the 29th a ...

is founded. * Ramona Convent * Ventura High School is founded.

1890

Tulare Union High School Tulare Union High School () is a public school for secondary education in Tulare, Tulare County, California, United States. This high school is part of the Tulare Joint Union High School District, along with Tulare Western High School and Missio ...

is founded in Tulare. *

Mission High School (San Francisco) Mission High School is a public high school in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) San Francisco, California. Serving grades 9-12, Mission is the oldest high school on its original site in San Francisco; it has been on 18th Street ...

is founded in the Mission District and moved to its present location in 1896. *Claremont Grammar School is founded in Claremont. The name was later changed to Sycamore Elementary, however, the school's location remained.

1891

*Robert Down Elementary School is founded in Pacific Grove, California and known at the time as Pacific Grove Grammar School. *Leland Stanford Junior University, most commonly referred to simply as Stanford University, is founded at Leland Stanford's horse-breeding farm near

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. *The Anna Blake School for Girls opens in Santa Barbara. The school underwent a number of changes in control and mission, ultimately becoming

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. *

Livermore High School Founded in 1891, Livermore Union High School is a public high school located in the city of Livermore, California, United States. It is part of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. In 2007, it was chosen as one in four schools i ...

is founded in Livermore. *

Sonoma Valley High School Sonoma Valley High School (SVHS) is a public high school located in Sonoma, California with approximately 1,300 students as of 2017. It was founded in 1891 and held its first commencement in 1894. It moved to its current campus in 1922. Since t ...

is founded in the town of Sonoma (Sonoma County.) It opens in a building that formerly housed the Presbyterian-affiliated Cumberland College, founded 1859 but which had ceased operations. The high school moves to its current location in 1922. *

Redlands High School Redlands High School is a high school located in Redlands, California, alongside Redlands East Valley High School and Citrus Valley High School. It is the oldest Californian public high school still functioning on its original site. History T ...

is founded. It is the oldest public high school in the state of California still functioning on its original site, and the first "unified high school" formed from three elementary school districts. Its campus includes the historic Clock Auditorium, built in 1928. *

Santa Paula High School Santa Paula High School (SPHS) is a public comprehensive high school in Santa Paula, California, United States. It is one of two high schools in the Santa Paula Unified School District. The principal is Elizabeth Garcia. History The school wa ...

, founded in 1889 as the Santa Paula Academy, a private school run by the Congregational Church Association. In 1891 the city agreed with the association to convert the Academy to a public school and renamed it Santa Paula High School. * Fairfax school district * Elsinore High School, in Wildomar, California, was established in 1891. * Armijo Union High School, now Armijo High School, opened in 1891 in Fairfield (Solano County). * Throop University in Pasadena, renamed the

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in 1920.

1892

* Washington High School is founded in Fremont. *

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opens in Sonoma County. *

Lompoc High School Lompoc High School is a public high school serving Lompoc, in northern Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It was first established in the small farming community in 1892. It is part of the Lompoc Unified School District, as is cros ...

is founded in Lompoc. * Hayward High School is founded in Hayward. *

Benicia High School Benicia High School is a public high school serving approximately 1,700 students, grades nine through twelve. It is part of the Benicia Unified School District. It is located in Benicia, California, in the North Bay sub-region of the San Franc ...

in Solano County is founded in Benicia. *Montebello Elementary School is founded in the hills above present day

. Montebello closed in 2009, after 117 years of operation. Watsonville High School in Watsonville California, Established in 1892

1893

Bakersfield High School Bakersfield High School (BHS) is a public four-year high school located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School serves grades ninth through twelfth within the Kern High School District. Notable alumni ...

is founded as Kern County Union High School. *

Santa Maria High School Santa Maria High School (SMHS) is a public comprehensive high school in Santa Maria, California, United States. Located in the heart of the city, Santa Maria High School is the oldest school in the Santa Maria Valley and is part of the oldest hig ...

in Santa Maria is founded. It is the second-oldest high school functioning on its original site. *

Fullerton Union High School Fullerton Union High School is a public high school located in the Orange County, California city of Fullerton, operated by the Fullerton Joint Union High School District. History In 1893 a special election was held to create Fullerton Union High ...

2nd oldest High School in Orange County. * Elk Grove High School is founded as Elk Grove Union High School and is the first school in the EGUSD school district. *

The Harker School The Harker School is a private, non-profit school located in San Jose, California. Founded in 1893 as Manzanita Hall, Harker now has three campuses: Bucknall, Union, and Saratoga, named after the streets on which they lie. About The Bucknall ca ...

is founded as Manzanita Hall, a college preparatory school for boys and feeder for Stanford University.{{Cite web, url=https://www.harker.org/about/history, title=History | the Harker School

1894

Madera High School Madera High School is the first school and original high school in the central San Joaquin Valley city of Madera, California, serving students since 1894. The school colors are royal blue & white and its mascot is the coyote. History Madera Hi ...

is founded. *Escondido High School, in the County of San Diego, City of Escondido is founded.

1895

Long Beach Polytechnic High School Long Beach Polytechnic High School, founded in 1895 as Long Beach High School, is a four-year public high school located at 1600 Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, California, United States. The school serves portions of Long Beach, including Bixby ...

is founded. Its original name was "Long Beach High School." * Sequoia High School is founded as a preparatory school for Stanford University.

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