A new middle school will open in Oak Park in the fall – the neighborhood’s first stand-alone middle school since 1963. Oak Park Preparatory Academy (Oak Park Prep) is a St. Hope Public School and will open to seventh graders in August. Oak Park’s previous middle school – Stanford Junior High – was burned down by two teenagers in 1963. There are three middle schools in the district that serve Oak Park students – California, Will C. Wood and Kit Carson – but none are located within Oak Park. The Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education trustees voted to approve Oak Park Prep’s charter Oct. 6, and the new school will serve 60 students the first year. The school’s attend