he Bentley School is a nonprofit public benefit corporation operating an independent coeducational K-8 day school in the City of Oakland, Alameda County. The School draws students from the East Bay cities of Oakland and Berkeley and their neighboring communities. Founded in 1920 in Berkeley, the School incorporated as a nonprofit in 1969 about the same time it moved to its present 4-acre campus in the Hiller Highlands neighborhood of Oakland. As a 501(c)(3) educational organization, the School meets the requirements of the Tax Code for borrowing using tax-exempt securities.