After 12 years, music fills McClymonds High School’s halls

By Alyssa Jeong Perry | February 5, 2015
Student at McClymonds High School participates in piano class. It is the first time in 12 years that McClymonds has offered music classes.

The sounds of piano notes, falsettos, and string instruments echo through the empty hallways at McClymonds High School in West Oakland. The campus that once housed over 800 students has had a steady and rapid decline in enrollment in the past few years. Currently, one-fourth of the original population attends the school—putting the enrollment at…

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