Cubberley Community Center is a community center in Palo Alto, California that is housed on the campus of the former Cubberly High School, which was closed in 1979 as a result of declining enrollment. Cubberly High School was one of two public high schools in the southern half of Palo Alto in the 1960s and 1970s, along with the still-open Gunn High School.
Now home to local interest organizations including a ballroom dancing club, wildlife rescue organization, and a Chinese reading room for Palo Alto's large Asian minority, the Cubberley Community Center (known as simply "Cubberley" to locals) has become a prime community area for residents in southern Palo Alto.
Its most distinguished tenant includes an extension campus for Foothill Community College. Community and junior college classes are held at the Cubberley site and are becoming increasingly popular.
The land actually belongs to the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), and is leased to the City of Palo Alto, which has been criticized by local residents for mismanagement of its funds and subleasing agreements.
Remnants from academia, it boasts a track, a grassy school 'quad,' and a gym; now used as sites for public running, recreation, and community athletics respectively.
Due to an increasing Generation Y teenage population there had been recent talk of reopening the site as a local high school again. This seems to have fluttered and disappeared due to school district reforms and reconstruction.
External link
Cubberly Community Center website
