Hillside Elementary School

Hillside Elementary School is a now-closed public elementary school located in the hills of Berkeley, California. It sits on the block bounded by Le Roy Avenue, Buena Vista Way and La Loma Avenue. Hillside is registered as a local historic landmark. The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) built the present structure on the site of several homes that were destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley fire, which also destroyed Hillside's predecessor on the nearby southwest corner of Le Roy and Virginia Street. BUSD closed Hillside because of a declining school age population, and because it sits near or on the Hayward Fault. Area residents use the school's playground as a de facto neighborhood park. In 2009, with sale of the site to a housing...