Ellwood P. Cubberley High School

The site of the closed school is now named Cubberley Community Center and used for many diverse activities.

The Palo Alto Unified School District board, requiring an infusion of cash, determined Cubberley could be sold at more contemporary rates.

That has resulted in part of the campus being converted into the Cubberley Community Center, on an annual lease from the school district to the City of Palo Alto.

A KQED special program from 1970 features a three-day teaching conference at Cubberley High School that focused on ecology and population issues.

[1] Numerous societal tensions played out at Cubberley from 1967 to 1969 that were the subject of Sylvia Berry Williams' 1970 book Hassling, which gave the school national attention.