Type Public Status Closed Campus Suburban Founded 1959 | Established 1959 Closed 1990 Team name Falcons Color Red and gold | |
Headquarters Hayward, California, United States | ||
Sunset High School was a public high school in Hayward, California, United States. It opened in 1959 and was closed in 1990. The campus now contains the Hayward Adult School vocational school, and Thomas Brenkwitz Continuation High School, both part of the Hayward Unified School District.
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The Sunset High School campus is just west of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tracks, about one-half mile north of the main Hayward BART station. There is a view of the playing fields and the back part of the campus from BART trains.
History
At its creation in 1959, Sunset High School was part of the Hayward Union High School District, and continued to be until 1963, when that district was dissolved and all of its high schools became part of smaller unified school districts. At that time, Sunset High School became part of the Hayward Unified School District.
On September 25, 1959, the newly chartered State College for Alameda County - now California State University, East Bay - welcomed its first 293 students to classes in temporary quarters at Sunset High School. The high school was able to share space with the college because, during the 1959-1960 school year, the high school consisted of only the 9th and 10th grades. September 1961 was the first time Sunset had all four high school classes.
In 1970, social studies students at Sunset High School researched and wrote the book A History of Hayward.
The school closed in 1990.