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Castro Valley, ca.
Location of Castro Valley inside Alameda County, California.
Location of Castro Valley inside Alameda County, California.
Castro Valley is positioned in the US Castro Valley - Castro Valley Castro Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alameda County, California, United States.
As of the 2000 census, it is the fifth most crowded unincorporated region in California[better origin needed] and the twenty-third most crowded in the United States. The populace was 61,388 at the 2010 census.
Castro Valley is titled after Don Guillermo Castro, who was a soldier in the Mexican army and a rancher.
First known for chicken ranches, Castro Valley eventually became a bedroom community.
5.1.1 First enhance school in Castro Valley With the arrival of Europeans, Castro Valley was part of the territory granted to Mission San Jose in 1797.
The region Castro Valley now is situated in was part of the extensive colony of New Spain in what was the state of Alta California.
Castro Valley was part of the initial 28,000 acre (110 km ) territory grant given to Castro, called Rancho San Lorenzo.
This territory grant encompassed Hayward, San Lorenzo, and Castro Valley, including Crow Canyon, Cull Canyon, and Palomares Canyons.
Castro had a gambling habit and had to sell off portions of his territory to pay gambling debts.
During the 1940s and 1950s, Castro Valley was known for its chicken ranches.
Lake Chabot lies at the north of Castro Valley.
The easterly hills of Castro Valley constitute the headwaters of the San Lorenzo Creek watershed and the origin of a several creeks that flow into San Lorenzo Creek: Bolinas, Castro Valley, Chabot, Crow, Cull, Eden, Hollis, Kelly Canyon, Norris, and Palomares Creeks.
Interstate 580, with BART tracks in the center, near Castro Valley.
There were 22,348 homeholds out of which 36.1% had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 54.3% were opposite-sex married couples living together, 12.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 5.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 23.4% under the age of 18, 7.6% aged 18 to 24, 24.5% aged 25 to 44, 31.1% aged 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The economy of Castro Valley consists largely of the provision of goods and services for small-town residents.
Castro Valley is one of the sites where Joseph Eichler assembled some of the 10,000 or so homes he assembled in the Bay Area. Castro Valley has a one-screen movie theater, the Chabot Cinema.
The Castro Village complex on Castro Valley Boulevard is widely considered the commercial center of town. The Harry Rowell Rodeo Ranch is positioned in Castro Valley and is managed by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District.
Site of the first enhance school in Castro Valley Location 19200 Redwood Rd., Castro Valley, California First enhance school in Castro Valley The first enhance school in Castro Valley is a designated California Historical Landmark.
Castro Valley is an unincorporated improve and thus is governed directly by the County of Alameda.
Castro Valley has its own sanitary district, as well as its own school district. Efforts to incorporate Castro Valley have been voted down by its inhabitants at the polls in both 1956 and 2002. Castro Valley is also represented by a seven-member Municipal Advisory Council, which is an advisory body appointed to advise the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on small-town issues. As of 2013, educational attainment for Castro Valley inhabitants 25 to 34 years old is 95.4% have a high school degree or higher and 42.8% have a bachelor's degree or higher. Castro Valley is primarily served by the Castro Valley Unified School District, though portions of it are served by the Hayward Unified School District (South of I-580 and West of Grove Way) and the San Lorenzo Unified School District (westernmost part).
Overall, the Castro Valley Unified School District serves almost 9,000 students. The chief high school is Castro Valley High School with over 3000 students. Castro Valley also has Redwood High School, an alternative high school with approximately 193 students in 2005. Castro Valley has two enhance middle schools: Canyon Middle School and Creekside Middle School.
Castro Valley has nine enhance elementary schools: Castro Valley, Chabot, Independent, Jensen Ranch, Marshall, Palomares, Proctor, Stanton, and Vannoy.
The school precinct includes the Castro Valley Adult School.
Redwood Christian Schools has one elementary school (K-5) Redwood Christian Elementary. Castro Valley traffic Interstate 580, which approaches from the east, makes a turn northward at Castro Valley.
Interstate 238, which originates in Castro Valley, joins I-580 to Interstate 880.
In addition to being served by those two freeways, Castro Valley is served with enhance transit by bus fitness AC Transit, and rapid transit fitness BART with a station.
The major small-town east-west arterial road is Castro Valley Boulevard, while Lake Chabot Road, Redwood Road and Crow Canyon Road are the primary north-south arterials. Historically, Castro Valley Boulevard was part of the first transcontinental highway system, the Lincoln Highway. Palomares Hills (on the east side of Castro Valley) looking south toward Palomares Canyon.
Eden Medical Center operates in Castro Valley.
Mike Bordin, co-founder and drummer of Faith No More, as well as drummer for Black Sabbath, Korn and Ozzy Osbourne, attended Castro Valley High School Cliff Burton (deceased), former bassist of Metallica, attended Castro Valley High School Jason Castro (baseball), Major League Baseball player, born in Castro Valley Garret Dillahunt, actor, No Country For Old Men, born in Castro Valley "California's 15th Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
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