Background
Oakland Tech is one of six comprehensive public high school campuses in Oakland. Oakland Tech's attendance jurisdiction includes several neighborhoods, including Oakland Chinatown, Rockridge and Temescal.
Tech received the maximum 6-year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 2009.
Tech was displaced for earthquake retrofitting in the 1970s, to 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (formerly Grove Street). This location, erroneously referred to "Old Tech," was actually the campus of the now defunct University High School (1923–1948). That campus had then served as Merritt College from 1954 to 1966 and is considered the birthplace of the Black Panthers.
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