Editing Berkeley, California (section)

==Education==
[[File:International House from Sather Tower (52081012253).jpg|thumb|left|[[International House Berkeley]]]]

===Colleges and universities===
[[University of California Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]]'s main campus is in the city limits.

[[Graduate Theological Union|The Graduate Theological Union]], a consortium of eight independent theological schools, is located a block north of the University of California Berkeley's main campus. The Graduate Theological Union has the largest number of students and faculty of any religious studies doctoral program in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States |publisher=Nap.edu |doi=10.17226/12994 |pmid=22379653 |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-309-16030-8 |author1=National Research Council (US) Committee on an Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs |last2=Ostriker |first2=J. P. |last3=Kuh |first3=C. V. |last4=Voytuk |first4=J. A. |s2cid=60574333 }}</ref> In addition to more theological schools, [[Zaytuna College]], a newly established Muslim liberal-arts college, has taken 'Holy Hill' as its new home. The [[Institute of Buddhist Studies]] has been located in Berkeley since 1966. [[Wright Institute]], a psychology graduate school, is located in Berkeley. [[Berkeley City College]] is a [[Junior college|community college]] in the [[Peralta Community College District]].

===Primary and secondary schools===
[[File:Old Berkeley High School (Berkeley, CA).JPG|thumb|[[Berkeley High School (California)|Berkeley High School]]]]
The [[Berkeley Unified School District]] operates public schools.

The first public school in Berkeley was the [[Ocean View, Berkeley, California|Ocean View]] School, now the site of the Berkeley Adult School located at Virginia Street and San Pablo Avenue. The public schools today are administered by the [[Berkeley Unified School District]]. In the 1960s, Berkeley was one of the earliest US cities to voluntarily desegregate, utilizing a system of buses, still in use. The district has eleven elementary schools and one public high school, [[Berkeley High School (California)|Berkeley High School (BHS)]]. Established in 1880, BHS currently has over 3,000 students. The Berkeley High campus was designated a historic district by the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on January 7, 2008.<ref>''Berkeley Daily Planet'', January 22–24, 2008</ref> [[Saint Mary's College High School]], a Catholic school, also has its street address in Berkeley, although most of the grounds and buildings are actually in neighboring Albany. Berkeley has 11 public elementary schools and three [[middle schools]].
[[File:Pacific School of Religion-Holbrook-bldg (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|[[Pacific School of Religion]]]]
The East Bay campus of the [[German International School of Silicon Valley]] (GISSV) formerly occupied the [[Hillside Elementary School|Hillside Campus, Berkeley, California]]; it opened there in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|author=Taylor, Tracey|url=http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/11/13/german-school-opens-on-historic-berkeley-campus/|title=German School opens on historic Berkeley campus|publisher=[[Berkeleyside]]|date=November 13, 2012|access-date=March 21, 2017}}</ref> In December 2016, the GISSV closed the building, due to unmet seismic retrofit needs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/12/07/future-uncertain-for-berkeley-school-due-to-unsafe-building/|title=Future uncertain for Berkeley school due to unsafe building|last=Taylor|first=Tracey|date=December 7, 2016|website=[[Berkeleyside]]|access-date=February 16, 2017}}</ref>

===Public libraries===
[[Berkeley Public Library]] serves as the municipal library. [[University of California, Berkeley Libraries]] operates the [[University of California Berkeley]] libraries.