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3 unusual facts about Carlmont High School


Carlmont High School

With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American and Hispanic student body was bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time.

The novel My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie adaptation Dangerous Minds were based upon her experience as a teacher at Carlmont in the 1990s.

LouAnne Johnson

On leaving the Marines, she gained a master's degree in teaching English and, in 1989, went to teach at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.



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