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The Gilroy Unified School District was created in 1966 when several small school districts joined with the Gilroy School District. The other school districts included San Ysidro and Rucker. It covers an area of over 600 square miles, and during the 2012–2013 school year had approximately 11,000 students.
Gilroy High School is a co-educational public school located in Gilroy, California, that serves the city of Gilroy. A part of the Gilroy Unified School District , is one of two public comprehensive high schools in the city and has an approximate enrollment of 1,500 students.
Dr. T.J. Owens, GECA's namesake, was the former dean of students at Gavilan College and president of the Gilroy Unified School Board. [14] A prominent member of the national organization 100 Black Men of America and a civil rights activist, Owens died in 2005, two years before the early college academy was established. [15] [16]
It is a part of the Gilroy Unified School District. The school is named for the Christopher family, owner of the Christopher Ranch, a local garlic farm that is one of the largest employers in Gilroy. Christopher donated 10 acres of land and started an endowment for the school with an initial investment of $75,000. [3] The school opened in 2009.
Gilroy is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, south of the San Francisco Bay Area. It had a population of 59,520 as of the 2020 Census. Gilroy's origins lie in the village of San Ysidro, which developed in the early 19th century from Rancho San Ysidro. This land had been granted to Californio ranchero Ygnacio Ortega in 1809 ...
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The first school in Tuolumne County was located in Sonora, established June 1852. The second legislative session of the California legislature in 1855 when it received funding from the state. [ 2 ] SHS's predecessor, the Tuolumne County High School, was opened 1902 or 1903 and held its first classes in the basement of the old Sonora courthouse.
About this same time the Metropolitan Water District started construction on the aqueduct. This brought an influx of students. School once more opened in a building near the cafe. This time it was a two-teacher school. The school site was later moved about one-half mile east of Desert Center and was located there since 1935.