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William H. Crocker Overview
William H. Crocker Middle is a Middle School Located on 2600 Ralston Ave, Hillsborough, CA 94010 in the district of Hillsborough, California. Crocker Middle School is attended by grades 6th through 8th. Crocker Middle is under the jurisdiction of The Hillsborough City School District, commonly abbreviated as HCSD. The school was founded in 1959, during the school's first years it only supported 7th and 8th Graders. Later during 1972 did Crocker Middle School begin enrolling 6th Graders.

Crocker Middle School's mascot is a Viking with a beard and a horned-helmet, colored with yellow-blonde hair, blue eyes, and a yellow helmet (The school official colors are Blue and Gold). The Crocker Viking can be found on Crocker School "Spiritwear" (merchandise) and murals around the school. The Viking can also be seen in two variants, one female and one male, within the Crocker Middle School gym on drapes located on the side of bleachers. Though, as of 2019, the female Viking has been vandalized with a sharpie mustache.

Crocker Middle has a program titled "HTV News" in which students film a live broadcast to YouTube as an elective activity for students. The livestreams are in a mock-newscast fashion, students report on the weather, Crocker sport teams, and other miscellaneous announcements. HTV News has also been notorious for student's questionable responses. the HTV New cast program consists of the HTV reporters will ask another student for their opinion on a topic or question. Several students have given inappropriate responses that clearly went over the administration's heads, one example being when a HTV reporter asked for a student's favorite show, to which the student responded "DevilMan Crybaby". This program also runs the twitter account @crockervikings, the account tweets updates and news about the school.

The Hillsborough City School District allows undocumented students to attend as of January 24, 2017. (As per California law, students have a right to attend school regardless of legal status.)

the Hillsborough City School District uses a G-Suite for attending students (in use until K12 / the student graduates). During 2018, The school district adopted a new G-Suite that uses the format "yourname.21@stu.hcsdk8.org", which can be displayed on numerous site URLs managed by HCSD.

Academic Awards and Achievements
Crocker is the only middle school in the United States to be recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School four times. Please note that the school no longer qualifies for this award as it is now given to either low socio-economic schools that are beating the odds or to schools that have made significant improvements in test scores (Crocker’s scores are already near the top and thus cannot much improve). Please refer to the list below to view all awards given to William H. Crocker Middle School organized via date they were achieved.


 * California Distinguished School, 1982.
 * the National Blue Ribbon Secondary School, Excellence in Education Award, 1983
 * California Distinguished School, 1988
 * the National Blue Ribbon Secondary School, Excellence in Education Award, 1988
 * California Distinguished School, 1992
 * Crocker achieved world class status by being recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy as one of the top five schools in the world, 1993.
 * the National Blue Ribbon Secondary School, Excellence in Education Award, 1994
 * California Distinguished School, 1999
 * California Distinguished School, 2003
 * the National Blue Ribbon Secondary School, Excellence in Education Award, 2004
 * California Distinguished School, 2007
 * California Distinguished School, 2011