abstract:Cubberley Community Center is a community center in Palo Alto, California that is housed on the campus of the former Cubberley High School, which opened in the fall of 1956 and closed in 1979 as a result of budget cuts from California Proposition 13. Cubberley High School, perhaps best known as the setting of Ron Jones' teaching experiment The Third Wave, was one of three public high schools in Palo Alto in the 1960s and 1970s, along with Gunn High School and Palo Alto High School, both of which are still open.