Consequently, public schools serving those areas had a disproportionately high number of blacks while virtually no blacks attended the schools in other mostly white sections of the city. However, the practice of racial covenants in property title deeds, together with informal discrimination ("de facto"), had resulted in the black population being concentrated in certain sections of the city, primarily in the southwestern portions. Integration policy ĭuring and following World War II, the African American population of Berkeley, as in the entire region, increased substantially. In 1979, the district offices moved to the Old City Hall at 2134 Martin Luther King Way, and in 2012 to 2020 Bonar Street (originally Luther Burbank Junior High School, then Berkeley High School West Campus, and finally the Berkeley Adult School). High, later University Elementary and the temporary site, after the 1923 fire, of Hillside Elementary. In January 1940, administrative offices were moved to 1414 Walnut Street, the original Garfield Jr.
Designated a seismic hazard after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, it was put to non-school purposes beginning in 1940 and was razed in 1946, the site becoming tennis courts for the high school.
In 1927, a two-story administration building was completed at 2325 Milvia Street (at the corner of Durant Avenue, across from the grounds of Berkeley High School).
ĭistrict administrative offices were originally (in the late 19th century) at or near the Kellogg School (above Shattuck Avenue between Center Street and Allston Way). The Berkeley Unified School District was formed in 1936 by the merger of the city's elementary and high school districts.
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