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San Leandro Unified School District is a publicly funded unified school district in San Leandro, Alameda County, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast. The district has 12 schools and 447 teachers, with a total enrollment of 8,729 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Marina High School was a public high school located in the Washington Manor neighborhood of San Leandro, California, USA, that opened from 1964 to 1982. It was part of the San Lorenzo Unified School District.It opened in September 1964 on Wicks Boulevard with only freshman, sophomore and junior classes. Donald Hayes was the architect of Marina High, which gave Marina its distinctive roofline. The students mostly came from the former Foothill High School in Hayward. The first graduating class at Marina was in 1966 and the last graduating class was in 1982. Marina mainly served the Washington Manor area of San Leandro, and approximately 1,200 students attended each year of its existence. Forrest S. Lindsay was the first principal, from 1964 to 1973. Roosevelt Bergmann was the principal from 1974 to 1982. Marina's athletic teams were known as The Titans, and the school colors were royal blue and white. The Titans competed in the HAAL league in American football, baseball, basketball (the Titans had their first winning season in 1969-70), golf, badminton, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, tennis, cross country, track, wrestling, G.A.A. baseball and G.A.A. basketball. The Titans Varsity Football team won the HAAL championship in 1974 and played Dublin High in the Turkey Bowl at Chabot College in Hayward. The Titans won that game 30-8. They were ranked 7th in Bay Area polls after the season. Clubs at Marina High School included Block "M" (boys' sports), G.A.A. (girls' sports), Megaphone Club (spirit club for the school), French Club, California Scholarship Federation, Latin Club, Future Business Leaders of America, the Virons, Rally Committee, Chess Club, Music Club, JV and Varsity Cheerleaders and Songgirls, Executive Council, Student Court Justices, Representative Assembly, Student Curriculum Council, Homemaking, Art Club, the Thunderbolt Staff (newspaper) and Timaran Staff (yearbook). In 1982, the property was sold from San Lorenzo to the City of San Leandro. The school was demolished to make way for single-family, detached homes, but the Marina High School multi-purpose room, two art rooms and the cafeteria were saved and renamed The Marina Community Center, located at 15301 Wicks Boulevard. The City of San Leandro Library holds copies of Marina High School's yearbooks.

Otis Spunkmeyer Inc. is a baked goods distribution company. Otis Spunkmeyer produces cookies, muffins, frozen cookie doughs, and other pastries.

The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is an American confectioner, wholly owned by Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domenico Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California. The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company was incorporated in 1852, and is the third-oldest chocolate company in the US, after Baker's Chocolate and Whitman's.

KIPP King Collegiate High School is located in San Lorenzo, California. KIPP King was named after Martin Luther King Jr.

Arroyo High School is located in San Lorenzo, California, and is part of the San Lorenzo Unified School District. Serving as one of two public high schools for San Lorenzo and parts of San Leandro, its sister high school and cross-town rival is San Lorenzo High School.

Mulford Gardens is a neighborhood in San Leandro in Alameda County, California. It lies at an elevation of 20 feet (6 m). It was formerly an unincorporated community. It is between Mulford and Mulford Landing.

Rancho San Leandro was a 6,830-acre (27.6 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Alameda County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Joaquín Estudillo. The grant extended along the east San Francisco Bay from San Leandro Creek south to San Lorenzo Creek, and encompassed present-day San Leandro.

Roberts Landing was a settlement in Alameda County, California, now incorporated into the town of San Leandro. It is located at the mouth of San Lorenzo Creek on San Francisco Bay just west of the community of San Lorenzo. In the 19th century, it had warehouses and a wharf, and was used by farmers to ship their produce to the city of San Francisco. From 1906 to 1964, it was the site of an explosives manufacturing plant operated by the Trojan Powder Company. Following the plant's closure, the site was decontaminated. After protracted discussions, part was made into a housing development while a larger part was made an open space that is now also called the San Leandro Shoreline Marshlands.

Truth is Beauty, is a 55-foot (17 m) sculpture by Marco Cochrane. The sculpture is lit from the inside by more than 3,000 LED lights. It is part of a series of three large-scale steel sculptures of nude women by Cochrane, Bliss Dance (2010), Truth is Beauty (2013) and R-Evolution (2015). It was first exhibited at the 2013 Burning Man, then the Las Vegas Strip, and is now at permanent display at the San Leandro Tech Campus in California.

San Leandro High School (SLHS) is a four-year public high school in San Leandro, California, USA. It is often cited as the only comprehensive high school in the San Leandro Unified School District (SLUSD).

San Leandro is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located off Davis Street (Route 61/122) in downtown San Leandro, California. The station has two elevated side platforms, with the faregates at ground level. It opened on September 11, 1972 - part of the first BART line.