CSD Eagles history

Clark's first report, dated 1861, noted that enrollment had increased to seventeen deaf and five blind students.

Doctor Warring Wilkinson was brought from New York in December, 1865, to be Principal of the dual institution.

In February, 1867, the Commissioners, with the approval of the Board of Directors, chose a site across the Bay, in the County of Alameda.

The blind were but a small minority. It is difficult to realize that in 1883, the year he entered the school, this was the sole agency for the blind in California.

In 1891, it was recommended by the American Association of the Instructors of the Blind that deaf-blind pupils be educated in schools for the blind.

On April 18, 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake did some damage to the school, but there was no fire.

In 1907 he lobbied through both chambers and persuaded Charles Evans Hughes, then Governor of New York, and later Chief Justice of the United States, to sign a bill providing the first appropriated Reader Funds for blind college students anywhere in the United States.

Doctor Perry returned to California in 1912.

In 1921, a bill passed by the legislature placed the school under the joint authority of the State Director of Education and the State Board of Education.

Perkins School for the Blind established the first special department for the deaf-blind in 1933.

Richard E. French, the Superintendent of the California School for the Blind (commonly known as "C.S.B."), sought legislation as early as 1936 to admit deaf-blind children into the school.

In 1949 a new school department was established for the teaching of educable deaf-blind children of California.

Evelyn Greenleaf became the first principal of the C.S.B. Deaf-Blind Department, in 1970.

In 1971, the Deaf-Blind Assessment Center was established at the California School for the Blind.

The school opened in a new facility in Fremont, California in Fall 1980.