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Hillside School
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| Location: | 1581 Leroy Ave., Berkeley, California |
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| Area: | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
| Built: | 1925 |
| Architect: | Walter H. Ratcliff |
| Architectural style: | Tudor Revival |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: |
82000961 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | October 29, 1982 |
Hillside Elementary School is a now-closed public elementary school located in the hills of Berkeley, California. It sits on the block bounded by Le Roy Avenue, Buena Vista Way and La Loma Avenue. Hillside is registered as a local historic landmark. The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) built the present structure on the site of several homes that were destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley fire, which also destroyed Hillside's predecessor on the nearby southwest corner of Le Roy and Virginia Street. BUSD closed Hillside because of a declining school age population, and because it sits near or on the Hayward Fault. Area residents use the school's playground as a de facto neighborhood park.
In 2009, with sale of the site to a housing developer pending, local residients proposed a special assesement district to fund purchase of the playground section of the site.[2]
In June 2011 the District signed a preliminary purchase agreement with the non-profit German International School of Silicon Valley [3]
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