By Principal Karen van Putten and Asst. Principal Keri Billings
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
| Top Twelve Students | College/University | City/State | Major/Minor |
| Caitlin Eggleston | CSU Long Beach | Long Beach | Nursing |
| Allison Gudnason | Seattle Pacific Univ. | Seattle, WA | Business Administration |
| Daniel Jeffrey | UCSC | Santa Cruz | Literature |
| Connor Lydon ∆ | UC Berkeley | Berkeley | Economics |
| Alicia Magliato | Cabrillo College | Aptos | Biology |
| Mikaela Slade | Whitman College | Walla Walla, WA | Biz/Environmental Sci. |
| Jurgen Prambs ∆ | UC Berkeley | Berkeley | Economics |
| Addison Ritchie ∆ | Brigham Young | Provo, UT | Animation |
| Ari Solomon | CO School of Mines | Golden, CO | Mech Eng/Biz & Econ |
| Natasha Tanner | Cabrillo College | Aptos | Biology |
| Lucille Whisler | Wagner College | Staten Island | Physics & Education |
| Jeremy Yanowitz | CO Univ. Boulder | Boulder, CO | Engineering/Music |
∆=Valedictorians
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