Dublin High School (California)
public school in Dublin, Alameda County, California
Dublin High School is a four-year high school located in the East San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the two high schools in Dublin, California, along with Emerald High School and serves about 3,200 students.
History
By the peak of the California Gold Rush in the 1850s, Dublin had established itself as a significant crossroads city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Murray School District, consisting of the quaint Murray School, was established in 1866 to meet the educational needs of an ever-increasing population. This proved satisfactory until the late 1950s after World War II, when real estate developers chose Dublin as a site for large-scale suburban development. The population subsequently skyrocketed, from 750 to 13,641 by 1970.
The city scrambled to expand the school system, opening and closing several schools within the next few decades. Dublin High School was established amidst this process in 1968—first as the second high school in Pleasanton, California, sharing the campus of Amador Valley High School by means of a staggered schedule for the 1968–69 school year. The school moved to its current campus in Fall 1969. Its first senior class graduated in June 1971.
“Dublin High School (California)” enters the record as public school in Dublin, Alameda County, California. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dublin, High and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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