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The West Contra Costa Unified School District ( WCCUSD ; formerly known as Richmond School District ) is the school district for western Contra Costa County, California . It is based in Richmond, California . In addition to Richmond, the district covers the cities of El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole, and Hercules and the unincorporated areas of Bayview-Montalvin Manor, East Richmond Heights, El Sobrante, Kensington, North Richmond, and Tara Hills.

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13-428: The district currently has six neighborhood-assignment high schools, six neighborhood-assignment middle schools, and thirty-six neighborhood-assignment elementary and primary schools along with various continuation and alternative schools. The district website offers a graphical interactive tool for figuring out the boundaries and locations for neighborhood-assignment schools. The WCCUSD incurred $ 42.5 million in debt when

26-783: A census designated place in the 2010 U.S. Census after the Bayview-Montalvin CDP was split into the Bayview CDP and Montalvin Manor CDP . At the 2010 census Bayview had a population of 1,754. The population density was 4,549.6 inhabitants per square mile (1,756.6/km ). The racial makeup of Bayview was 871 (49.7%) White, 186 (10.6%) African American, 18 (1.0%) Native American, 369 (21.0%) Asian, 9 (0.5%) Pacific Islander, 179 (10.2%) from other races, and 122 (7.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 521 people (29.7%). The census reported that 1,746 people (99.5% of

39-667: A census-designated place in Contra Costa County , California . Bayview sits at an elevation of 36 feet (11 m). The 2010 United States census reported Bayview's population was 1,754. Prior to 2010, Bayview was part of the Bayview-Montalvin CDP and then separated into the two individual communities of Bayview and Montalvin Manor for the census. The CDP occupies an area of about 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi), 79% of it land, 21% of it water. Bayview first appeared as

52-548: Is an abbreviation (or acronym ) for " Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters ", a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households. After the 1980 Census , the term gained currency in the wider culture for a time. After demographers observed the increasing frequency of cohabitation over

65-400: The "decrepit" conditions at Community Day School. The alternative school was reported to have no electricity, heating, or bathrooms in addition to rampant rodent and feline excrement. Furthermore, the roof was leaking, there were insufficient seats or desks for students and mushrooms were found to be growing from the floor. Two-thirds of students were also reported as being chronically truant. It

78-494: The 1980s, the Census Bureau began directly asking respondents to their major surveys whether they were "unmarried partners", thus making obsolete the old method of counting cohabitors, which involved a series of assumptions about "Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters". The category "unmarried partner" first appeared in the 1990 Census , and was incorporated into the monthly Current Population Survey starting in 1995. By

91-476: The district planned to close schools over the following two years. The district includes, in addition to Richmond: Bayview , East Richmond Heights , El Cerrito , El Sobrante , Kensington , Montalvin Manor , North Richmond , Pinole , Rollingwood , San Pablo , and Tara Hills . It also includes the majority of Hercules . In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the district for

104-423: The late 1990s, the term POSSLQ had fallen out of general usage (having been replaced by " significant other ") and returned to being a specialized term for demographers. CBS commentator Charles Osgood composed a verse which includes There's nothing that I wouldn't do If you would be my POSSLQ You live with me and I with you, And you will be my POSSLQ. I'll be your friend and so much more; That's what

117-490: The owners and 96 (16.7%) by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.4%; the rental vacancy rate was 3.0%. 1,402 people (79.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 344 people (19.6%) lived in rental housing units. It is in the West Contra Costa Unified School District . POSSLQ POSSLQ ( / ˈ p ɒ s əl k j uː / POSS -əl- KYOO , plural POSSLQs )

130-596: The population) lived in households, 8 (0.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and no one was institutionalized. There were 575 households, 222 (38.6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 342 (59.5%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 71 (12.3%) had a female householder with no husband present, 41 (7.1%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 31 (5.4%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 5 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 93 households (16.2%) were one person and 41 (7.1%) had someone living alone who

143-572: The then-named Richmond Unified School District went bankrupt in 1990 under Superintendent Walter Marks and the state, under court order, financed district operations. The bankruptcy affected the credit rating of the City of Richmond, therefore the name was changed. In 1991 the district had to be bailed out by the state. As of Fall 2005, the school district is $ 7 million in debt. The district has been lobbying IBM to forgive 5 million dollars in debt from obsolete computers purchased in 1989. To decrease expenditures,

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156-624: Was 65 or older. The average household size was 3.04. There were 454 families (79.0% of households); the average family size was 3.38. The age distribution was 413 people (23.5%) under the age of 18, 136 people (7.8%) aged 18 to 24, 442 people (25.2%) aged 25 to 44, 473 people (27.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 290 people (16.5%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 41.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.2 males. There were 591 housing units at an average density of 1,533.0 per square mile (591.9/km ),of which 575 were occupied, 479 (83.3%) by

169-399: Was also noted that there was not usually a math or science teacher available. Students needing to use a bathroom facility needed to be escorted by staff to Gompers Continuation High School . The stated goal of the suit was to improve the learning conditions and available supplies and opportunities for the small school body. Bayview, Contra Costa County, California Bayview is

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