California Concordia College was a junior college and high school in Oakland, California, United States, from 1906 until 1973. It was affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and was established for the training of Lutheran pastors and Christian day school teachers. History Concordia was established in 1906 as a four-year high school (the "Academy") for boys. Its first building, a house at the corner of East 15th Street and 17th Avenue in Oakland, was dedicated on July 15, 1906, with the first classes in September. Ten students made up the first student body, with Herman Jonas as the first teacher. In about 1912, the Lutheran Education Association led efforts to buy the site at 2365 Camden Street for a permanent location. The California and Nevada District of the LCMS began a fundraising drive to build the new campus, with the new school being dedicated on April 11, 1915. In 1918, the junior college department was added so that students would not have to transfer to one of the other LCMS colleges upon graduation from high school. The California and Nevada District relinquished control of the school to the national LCMS in 1921. Thereafter additional buildings were erected. The high school became co-educational In 1938, as did the junior college in 1951. In the early 1960s, a new master plan was being developed for the expansion of the school and its facilities. The college and high school were closed in 1973. The academic records were transferred to Concordia University Irvine, which also supports the California Concordia alumni group. The Camden Street site is now the location of the Spectrum Center Camden Campus, a provider of special education services. Some of the school buildings still exist at this location, but the older buildings that housed the earlier classrooms and later the dormitories have been demolished. Among the presidents of California Concordia were Johann Theodore Gotthold Brohm Jr, O. T. Walle, and Ernest F. Scaer. School life California Concordia was a six-year institution patterned after the German gymnasium. This provided four years of high school, plus two years of junior college. Years in the school took their names from Latin numbers and referred to the years to go before graduation. The classes were named: Sexta - 6 years to go; high school freshman Qunita - 5 years to go; high school sophomore Quarta - 4 years to go; high school junior Tertia