Elk Grove High School - Thundering Herd

Making uneducated children, into adult scholars since 1893 Elk Grove Union High School was the first union high school in the state of California.

Sixteen elementary districts voted to tax themselves for a high school, and they all remained as separate districts until the entire K-12 district unified in 1959. The high school opened its doors in 1893 at its first site on Main Street (now Derr Street and Elk Grove Boulevard in Old Town). In 1922, a new brick building was constructed on the corner of Elk Grove Boulevard and Elk Grove Florin, wh  ...