San Ramon Valley Unified School District history

The Academy was a success, it was answering a real need in the valley but unfortunately it burned to the ground in 1868 and was not rebuilt nor was a public high school built in the valley.

Miss Charlotte Wood, who taught at Sycamore School at that time, told the assembled Grange members this fact early in 1904, following an earnest discussion on the need and a request of a high school

18, 1905, carry the information that a new Valley Improvement Assoc. had been formed by a resolution, carrying five areas of valley improvement.

The Danville Grange established a committee in 1909 for the purpose of creating a public high school in the San Ramon Valley, according to “History of the SRV Union High School” by Inez Butz.

At the Grange meeting dated January 15, 1910, Mr.

In the summer of 1912 a laboratory was added to the Eddy house and Chemistry and physics were added to the course of study.

The last wood they bought in 1913 cost them $8.00 a cord.

10, 1914, when the school was moved into the former International Order of Odd Fellows hall on Front Street.

McAdue $5000 for the land that the San Ramon Valley Union High School was built upon. It was on Saturday morning, March 4, 1916, that the board met informally at the bank and paid Mr.

The first class to graduate from the building owned by the San Ramon Valley Unified High School District was in 1917.

The school “opens early each year as a mid-term vacation of two months is taken each year during the heavy rains of the winter when students residing in the rural sections are unable to attend,” according to a story in the July 23, 1921 issue of the Contra Costa Gazette.

Over the course of the next few decades, a variety of new buildings were added on campus, including the girls’ gym, constructed in 1939 as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brainchild, the Works Progress Administration.