Burlingame High School (California) and Related Topics

Burlingame, California

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City in San Mateo County, California.

Burlingame was originally part of Rancho San Mateo, granted to Californio ranchero Cayetano Arenas in 1846.

The Kohl Mansion, now the home of Mercy High School

Burlingame High School is the city's sole public high school.

San Mateo Union High School District

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High school district headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Within the district, SMHS was followed by Burlingame High School, which opened in the early 1920s, and then Capuchino High School in San Bruno in 1950.

San Bruno, California

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City in San Mateo County, California, United States, incorporated in 1914.

Rare snowfall in Crestmoor, February 5, 1976

The San Bruno police station next to the BART station at the Shops at Tanforan.

Barrack home in one of the long lines of converted horse stalls at Tanforan Assembly Center, June 16, 1942

Skyline Park was the final subdivision developed in the Crestmoor district of San Bruno, in 1966–67. Grading for the Junipero Serra Freeway (I-280) leveled the hill seen on the right side of this photo. (San Bruno Herald photo by Robert E. Nylund)

Destruction after fire and explosion in San Bruno

Aerial view of San Andreas Lake with portions of Millbrae and San Bruno

Prior to 1950, San Bruno's high school students attended San Mateo High School (opened in 1902) and then Burlingame High School (opened in 1923), traveling to and from school on the street cars that ran next to the Southern Pacific railroad.

Millbrae, California

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City located in northern San Mateo County, California, United States.

Millbrae City Hall flying (top to bottom) United States, California, & LBBTQ+ flags.

Millbrae's high school students rode the streetcar to attend Burlingame High School until Capuchino High School opened on September 11, 1950.

San Mateo High School

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National Blue Ribbon comprehensive four-year public high school in San Mateo, California, United States.

On April 5, 1922, ground was broken for Burlingame High School.

Crestmoor High School

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Crestmoor High School opened in San Bruno, California in September 1962 to relieve congestion at Capuchino High School and Mills High School.

The final choice came down to Burlingame High School or Crestmoor.

Dianna Agron

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American actress, singer, dancer, and director.

Agron lived in the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport for seven years from the age of nine.

Agron at the Glee premiere party in 2009

In the Glee episode "Born This Way", Agron's character Quinn is encouraged to embrace self-love by wearing a past mean nickname on a T-shirt, as the rest of her friends are doing with their flaws. The cast recreated the performance set to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" during the tour.

Agron at the New York premiere of The Family in 2013

Agron performing the national anthem in 2015

Agron in the Carlyle after performing in January 2019

Agron and Meghan Markle with General Martin Dempsey and others on a USO tour in Italy in 2014

When the family moved to California, Agron attended Lincoln Elementary School, Burlingame Intermediate School, and Burlingame High School in the Bay Area; she attended religious school and had her Bat Mitzvah at the Reform Judaism-practicing Peninsula Temple Sholom.