The Ravenswood High School Alumni Association Inc is a non-profit organization of alumni from Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto and associates that work to provide scholarships for graduating seniors in the City of East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven (eastern Menlo Park) neighborhood. In the Spring, RHSAA Inc holds its annual Scholarship Fundraiser and in the Winter, we host Giving Tuesday.
About Us
The Ravenswood High School Alumni Association, Inc was incorporated in 1991. Our mission is to assist, in a variety of ways, graduating High School Seniors who live in East Palo Alto or the Belle Haven community of Menlo Park and are planning to attend a college or University. Many of our students have successfully graduated from college, are leading productive lives and giving back to the community. They are our present and future leaders! And with their many accomplishments the name of Ravenswood High School lives on.
Ravenswood High School was a public high school located in East Palo Alto, California. Opened in 1958, it served the East Palo Alto area of San Mateo County California until its closure in 1976. In 1958 its enrollment was 629 students. existence of Ravenswood, East Palo Alto was the low income area in the shadow of its more affluent neighbors. Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto. The city of Palo Alto, while adjacent sharing the same zip code is a completely different city in a Santa Clara County. Ravenswood was part of the Sequoia Union High School District which serves the southern San Mateo County cities of Belmont, Redwood City, San Carlos, and Wood side. In 1971, Raymond J. Heringer, director of the work program at Ravenswood High, was awarded the John Wesley Powell Award.