Piedmont High School (California) - History

History

Further information: History of Piedmont, California

In September 1922, the Piedmont Unified School District opened the city's first high school. It was funded by a bond passed by voters in 1920.

Piedmont High School was the last public school in California to require uniforms, which disappeared in the 1970s.

The social scene was once dominated by social clubs, which resembled college sororities and fraternities, but they have since died out. The school was covered in the New York Times when in the mid-1990s it began breathalyzing all students before dances.

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