Roosevelt Middle School

Empowering Creative Community Leaders

Phone: 510-535-2877

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Degrees and Certifications:

Bachelor's of Arts Degree from UC Berkeley; Master’s Degree in Teaching from Pace University; Master’s in Education Degree through the esteemed Principal Leadership Institute at UC Berkeley. In 2009, named one of Phi Delta Kappan's Emerging Leaders and also received the PDK Charles Foster Fellowship in Educational Leadership.

Mr. Cliff Hong

Principal Cliff Hong joined Roosevelt Middle School at the start of the 2010-11 school year. Before that, he worked as an Assistant Principal at Edna Brewer Middle School in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). He is one of longest-serving middle school principals in Oakland.

Cliff taught middle and high school for six years in the South Bronx, Syracuse, and in Oakland. In 2015, he was selected to be one of a handful of Executive Principals in OUSD. He is an ardent advocate for public education, which he sees as being absolutely necessary for a democracy to thrive. Cliff is from Southern California, and currently lives in Oakland with his partner Lindsay and sons, Yuji and Tomu.

OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or equity or compliance with Title IX, or based on his/her association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics (5 CCR 4610). BOARD POLICY 0410. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. BOARD POLICY 4030. BOARD POLICY 5143.3. BOARD POLICY 5145.7. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at www.ousd.org/ombudsperson, at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA 94607, via email at gabriel.valenzuela@ousd.org, or via telephone 510-879-4281.