Its first building, a house at the corner of East 15th Street and 17th Avenue in Oakland,[1] was dedicated on July 15, 1906, with the first classes in September.

[2] In about 1912, the Lutheran Education Association led efforts to buy the site at 6325 Camden Street for a permanent location.

The California and Nevada District of the LCMS began a fundraising drive to build the new campus, with the new school being dedicated on April 11, 1915.

Among the presidents of California Concordia were Johann Theodore Gotthold Brohm Jr,[6] O. T. Walle, and Ernest F.

The classes were named: Those in Sexta were usually hazed in a mild way by upperclassmen and were required to do a certain amount of clean-up work around the school, such as picking up trash.

This requirement came as quite a shock to those in Sexta (freshmen) on their first night, when they were caught and scolded by a proctor when they left their study room to go to the bathroom without permission.

From 9:30 to 10 pm, high school students were free to roam, and sometimes went to the local Lucky Supermarket to purchase snacks.