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OMI IS TURNING 20 IN 2021

Joining the Oakland Military Institute as a Student means you are joining a rich part of history in our City.

OMI was founded in 2001 after a hard-fought two-year campaign led by then Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown. Governor Gray Davis helped secure the charter after local school boards rejected it. It was the first charter ever sponsored by the state, the first public military school, and the first school sponsored by the National Guard.