San Lorenzo Valley High School Grads

By Principal Karen van Putten and Asst. Principal Keri Billings

Around 1900 in the San Lorenzo Valley, students were served by many small one-room schoolhouses. One of these schools, Alba School on Alba Road in Ben Lomond is currently used as a community center and community library. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, Boulder Creek housed the only high school in the Valley.

Students from Felton usually took the train down to Santa Cruz to attend high school. Ben Lomond students often rode the train up to the Boulder Creek High School.

In December of 1951 two small school districts in San Lorenzo Valley unified to form the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District (SLVUSD). Before 1951 the SLVUSD consisted of Boulder Creek High School and Elementary School. There was an elementary school serving Felton and Ben Lomond and those students were in the Santa Cruz High School District.

A central high school for all valley students was built on the present Felton site and when it opened in 1954, this was the first time that San Lorenzo Valley students were all educated together in one high school with a graduating class of 22 students. Today the High School houses 1037 students and the total district enrollment is 3013 students including the Middle School, two Elementary Schools, district Charter School and continuation High School.

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San Lorenzo Valley High School Class of 2015

Valedictorians
Connor Lydon • Jurgen Prambs • Addison Ritchie

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