Oh My,You are from my neck of the woods then.I went to Mills High a bit north of your way,Class of 65'.Back then it was a pretty rough place,lots of working class Irish and Italian working class kids.We had a few nasty riots there back in the day.When my brother went there a few years later it was hippie high,lots of dope.
Now it is plurality Asian and very highly ranked as the home of quite a few National Merit scholars.
Even closer than you think. My dad taught high school math at the neighboring Capuchino high school. I used to attend the Mills-Cap homecoming football games when I was a child.
It's funny, but "Parkmont" high school (Carlmont) where the movie took place has really improved since I went there. Just before I went, there were some famous race riots that even showed up on the MSM news, with TV coverage of National Guard moving in to establish peace. Race riots continued to take place while I was there, on a lesser scale. But it doesn't matter how many deck chairs you rearrange, the Titanic is still going to sink. It saddens me that national merit scholars are wasting their time in high schools, they could be earning college credits very early.