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. During the 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 and 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 Woodside. In 1971, Raymond J. Heringer, director of the work experience program at Ravenswood High, was awarded the John Wesley Po