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About Us

Rudsdale is structured as a small school with the capability of providing instruction, behavioral support, and life skills with individualized student needs in mind.

Our Vision

Rudsdale is a community of lifelong learners that provides students with a renewed educational experience that equips them with the linguistic, academic, social, and emotional tools to lead healthy, sustainable, and fulfilling lives.  Rudsdale students complete a graduation portfolio demonstrating their readiness for post-secondary success.

Our Mission

Rudsdale High School is a voluntary program dedicated to providing educational options for students 16 years and older who could benefit from an alternative high school experience. Students explore post-graduate opportunities through technology and health pathways and the following 4 pillars: 

­English Language Development 
Students build fluency in spoken and written English in order to communicate clearly and broaden opportunities for career and academic advancement. 

Holistic Individualized Support  
Students are nurtured with wrap-around supports for their individual academic and social emotional needs along with the self advocacy tools and resources needed to navigate the complicated systems in the U.S. 

­Cultivating Lifelong Learners 
Staff pushes against traditional methodology, creating revolutionary pedagogy for newcomer students. Students deepen their curiosity about the world through projects that flex individual creativity and build social emotional capacity. 

­Career Exploration 
­Our program offers opportunities that include tailored internships, vocational skills training and other out of classroom experiences to broaden career possibilities. 
 

Our Mission

History: Rudsdale Continuation High School opened in Oakland, California in 2005 to serve students in the community who were not graduating from OUSD schools. Rudsdale Continuation was previously located on Rudsdale Street in the flatlands of Oakland, and the Newcomer Program previously occupied the space behind Castlemont High School.  Since 2022, the two programs have merged on the King Estates Campus.  

Who we are:  Rudsdale is now the largest of the district’s three continuation schools, serving approximately 360 students when fully enrolled.   Eighty-six percent of students are Latinx and almost nine percent are African American.  Students at Rudsdale are the district’s most vulnerable student populations.  Ninety-eight percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.  Spanish and Mam are the predominant first languages of the school, and the majority of students are foreign born.  Seventy-six percent of Rudsdale students are English language learners, with 48% of the student body in their first 4 years of immigration and English language acquisition.  Approximately a third of our student body are unaccompanied minors, immigrant teens who immigrate without their parents.  
 

Contact Us

8251 Fontaine Street
Oakland, CA 94605