Fact check: Did Gavin Newsom attend Redwood High School in Vallejo or any San Francisco prep schools and what years did he attend?

1. A clear consensus points to Larkspur’s Redwood High School — not Vallejo — and a 1985 graduation date

Multiple biographical summaries and reporting in the assembled materials identify Redwood High School in Larkspur, Marin County as Gavin Newsom’s alma mater and list 1985 as his graduation year. Entries characterizing his education repeat the same core fact: Newsom attended the Redwood High School that serves Larkspur and nearby communities, culminating in a mid-1980s graduation ^{[1] [2] [3]}. A June 2024 news piece referencing his local ties and family moves likewise calls him an alumnus of the Marin-area public school, though that article does not add specific attendance dates ^[4]. The provided dataset contains no primary-school or transcript-level evidence contradicting the Larkspur identification; several items explicitly state the Larkspur Redwood connection and the 1985 graduation year, creating a consistent picture across multiple sources ^{[1] [3]}.

2. No supplied source supports Vallejo Redwood High School or San Francisco prep-school attendance

Across the provided sources, none attributes Newsom’s high-school years to Redwood High School in Vallejo or to any San Francisco private preparatory school. The items drawn from school district webpages, a California education guide, and miscellaneous technical pages in the first group contain no relevant biographical claims about Newsom’s schooling ^{[5] [6] [7]}. The more substantive biographical and news pieces in the second and third groups converge on the Larkspur institution; none mention Vallejo or San Francisco prep schools, and at least one source explicitly notes the absence of such claims while referencing his family’s Marin County connections and his wife’s private-school background ^{[8] [9] [1]}. Therefore, within this document collection, the claim that he attended Vallejo’s Redwood or San Francisco prep schools is unsupported.

3. How the contemporaneous reporting and biographical entries align — and what they omit

News reporting and biographical entries included here align in their core statement about Newsom’s high school; they repeatedly cite Redwood High School (Larkspur) and give 1985 as his graduation year ^{[1] [3] [4]}. The June 2024 article affirms his status as an alumnus of the Marin County public school but does not specify years, while other biographies explicitly list the 1985 graduation without documentary transcripts in this packet ^{[4] [1]}. Notably, the supplied school-district and education-guide pages contain no individual student records or corroborating primary documents; those pages are either non-biographical or unrelated to Newsom’s personal file ^{[5] [7]}. The available corpus therefore offers consistent secondary-source claims but lacks primary-school-record evidence within these documents.

4. Bottom line: the record in these sources is consistent; missing evidence would be transcripts or primary records

Within the assembled materials the best-supported factual conclusion is that Gavin Newsom attended Redwood High School in Larkspur and graduated in 1985, and there is no evidence here that he attended Redwood High School in Vallejo or any San Francisco prep schools ^{[1] [3] [4]}. The dataset does not include primary transcripts, yearbooks, or school-district confirmations that would serve as definitive primary documentation; instead, it contains secondary biographies and news reporting that concur on the Larkspur school and 1985 date ^{[2] [3]}. To move from strong secondary-source consensus to documentary verification would require release or citation of primary school records, yearbook scans, or an official school-district alumni confirmation — none of which are present among the supplied sources ^[5].