West Contra Costa Unified School District

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West Contra Costa Unified School District
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Type Public
Budget Revenue: $338,673,000
Expenditures: $425,711,000[1]
Established July 1, 1965[2]
Grades K-12, Alternative Education, Adult Education
Superintendent Bruce Harter
Students 32,197[1]
Location Richmond, California (encompassing Western Contra Costa County)
United States of America
Website http://www.wccusd.k12.ca.us/

The West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) is the school district for western Contra Costa County, California. It is based in Richmond, California. It currently has six high schools and four continuation schools. The WCCUSD incurred $42.5 million in debt when the then-named Richmond Unified School District went bankrupt in 1990 under Superintendent Walter Marks and the state, under court order, financed district operations. The bankruptcy affected the credit rating of the City of Richmond, therefore the name was changed. As of Fall 2005, the school district is $7 million in debt. The district has been lobbying IBM to forgive 5 million dollars in debt from obsolete computers purchased in 1989.[3] To decrease expenditures, the district is planning to close schools over the next two years.[4]

Contents

[edit] High schools

[edit] Charters

[edit] Continuation schools

  • Delta High School
  • Kappa High School
  • Sigma High School
  • Omega High School

[edit] Middle schools

  • Adams Middle School (closed effective 2009-2010 year)
  • Juan Crespi Middle School -- named after Juan Crespi
  • Helms Middle School
  • Hercules Middle/High School
  • Lovonya DeJean Middle School
  • Pinole Middle School
  • Portola Middle School (planned to move to temporary site on El Cerrito HS campus effective 2009-2010 year, until new building is constructed on site of closed Castro Elementary School)

[edit] Charters

  • Manzanita Charter Middle School

[edit] K-8 schools

[edit] Elementary schools

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Search for Public School Districts - District Detail for West Contra Costa Unified U.S. Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. Data from 2004-2005. Accessed on 2007-09-16.
  2. ^ WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT: YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2004
  3. ^ Cash-Strapped Richmond Schools Ask IBM To Forgive Debt
  4. ^ Potential W. Contra Costa school closures

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