Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles)

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Alexander Hamilton High School
Hamilton High School LAUSD Entrance.jpg
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Information
Type High School
Established 1931
Locale 2955 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90034
34°02′00″N 118°23′23″W / 34.033451°N 118.389667°W / 34.033451; -118.389667
Principal Gary Garcia
Grades A-F System
Number of students 2,154[1]
Athletics Hamilton High School Yankees
Mascot Alex
Phone 310-836-1602
Website Hamilton Home Page

Alexander Hamilton High School is a public high school within the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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[edit] History

Hamilton High School opened in fall 1931, with Thomas Hughes Elson as the principal. [2] At the time, its attendance boundaries included Culver City[3], and in 1932 they extended as far north as Mulholland Highway.[4]

Early photographs from the school's archives show the campus in its pre-World War II state, with only the main building completed. The photos show dozens of 1920s and 30s cars parked along Robertson Boulevard in front of the school. The bell tower still exists today, but no longer houses a working bell.

Today, there exists Brown Hall (the lab building, named in honor of Jack Brown, a noted electronics instructor), the tech building, the humanities building, the music building, and other structures. There is a large Theater Hall, a cafeteria, two gym buildings, boys' and girls' gym, and a workshop building. Adjacent is a Department of Water and Power building and Cheviot Hills High School, a continuation school.

[edit] Administration

Hamilton High is divided into six "small learning communities," or SLCs," which coordinate their own curricula and staff. They are:

  • Academy of Music
  • Humanities Magnet
  • CAA (Communication Arts Academy)
  • Global Studies
  • BIT (Business & Interactive Technology)
  • MSM (Math Science Medical)

During the 2008/2009 school year, the L & M (Leadership & Management) was eliminated and the students were placed in the four remaining non-magnet SLCs.

Hamilton's mascot, "Alex"

The Humanities Magnet and the Music Academy have their own buildings. Classes in those buildings are mostly held for that program, and offer teachers trained in those areas. The other SLC divisions hold classes in the larger main buildings.

[edit] Academy of Music

The Music Academy gained national attention in June 2002 when the Disney Channel premiered the reality TV show Totally in Tune, which chronicled members of the Academy's Symphony Orchestra as they struggled to cope with the demands of being a student, a musician, and a teenager in and out of the concert hall.

What makes the Academy of Music unique from other high schools is that it offers a large array of classes and programs in music and other performing arts. Hamilton Academy of Music students take traditional high school classes, but are also enrolled in classes in the Academy's elective departments. The Dance Department has two shows a year where the dancers get to showcase all they have learned. The Choir Department has a winter and spring voice concert and a benefit concert in the spring to raise money for competitions and choir trips. The Drama Department has two major productions in each semester and goes to other schools to perform as well have scene nights open to the public.

The Music Academy is a Grammy-recognized school. Hamilton Music Academy has won countless national and local awards. Many of its graduates have gone into the entertainment industry and are very successful. Even the staff have done productions in the entertainment industry.

The Choir department offers seven courses with four training choirs and three performance choirs: Men's ensemble, Women's C and B choirs, and the performance choirs: Women's A choir, Vocal Jazz and Chamber Choir

The Dance department offers: Beginning Jazz, Intermediate 1,2,3, Advanced production, and a dance team.

The Drama department offers: Drama 1, Intermediate, Advanced acting, and Play production.

The school is also equipped with a music studio in the Electronic Music Department.

[edit] Humanities Magnet

The Humanities Magnet, an intellectual hub of the campus, and statistically among the highest-scoring independent academic programs in all of L.A.U.S.D., was established in 1981. It offers an interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum notable for its inclusion of Art History, Psychology, Philosophy, Ancient Civilization, and Grammar. As a university preparatory program, most classes in the Humanities Magnet are Honors or Advanced Placement level. The faculty of the Humanities Magnet includes two PhDs--Dr. Daniel Victor, English, and Dr. Robert Coad, Art History—and a stable of unconventional veteran teachers like Alan Kaplan, Gregg Beytin, Cesar Campos, Liz Colker and Barry Smolin.

Annually, an average of 98% of the magnet's graduates are admitted to colleges and universities. Of that group, more than 80% are accepted to four- year colleges or universities.[citation needed]

[edit] Athletics

Many of the sports teams in Hamilton High school are known for being great competitors. They have over 100 trophies won from various of sport competitions. The Hamilton Yankees have made it very far over the past few years; To either city or state finals. The school currently has the following sports; Cross Country, Soccer, Basketball, Football, Volleyball, Track, Softball, Swim, Tennis, and even Baseball. All of which contain amazing players, some of which have received even scholarships to USC, UCBerkely, etc.

[edit] Co-curricular activities

Hamilton's school newspaper is called The Federalist, a reference to The Federalist Papers, the writings of the Revolutionary patriot Alexander Hamilton, after whom the school was named. The school colors are green and white.

[edit] Demographics

As of 2006-2007 [1]:

[edit] Feeder schools

Palms Middle School and Webster Middle School feed into Hamilton.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Filming location

The school has been used for several movies, television shows, and music videos.

TV Shows

Movies

Music Videos

[edit] References

  1. ^ LAUSD School Profile
  2. ^ The Citizen, June 12, 1931, p. 10, and November 20, 1931, p. 1
  3. ^ "Culver City History :: Schools". City of Culver City. http://www.culvercity.org/info/schools.asp?sec=vis. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
  4. ^ The Citizen, January 29, 1932, p. 11.
  5. ^ mark huberman, notable baseball and football protege anthony torres, got the short end of the height stick but still a great benchwarmer levine funes, our not so good short stop but he manages to get an ocassional infeild hit if that Mcquaid, Peter (December 17, 2000). "BOXER REBELLION". Los Angeles Times Magazine. http://8.12.42.31/2000/dec/17/magazine/tm-6538. Retrieved 2009-04-22. 
  6. ^ a b "Chronic Groove - Mike Elizondo Brings Diversity & Soul To Dr. Dre’s Hip-Hop World". Bass Player Magazine. San Bruno, California. http://www.bassplayer.com/article/chronic-groove/Jan-05/494. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
  7. ^ "Emile Hirsch Biography". Yahoo! Movies. AEC One Stop Group, Inc.. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804492088/bio. Retrieved 2009-04-22. "Education * Paul Revere Middle School, Brentwood, CA * Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA" 
  8. ^ "Paula Patton Is Pregnant Actress", celebrity.rightpundits.com, March 9, 2008
  9. ^ "ALL OF HOUSTON'S ARTICLES!". Houston Message Board. Powered by Invision Power Board. http://houston.forumsunlimited.com/lofiversion/index.php/t1216.html. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
  10. ^ Crowe, Jerry. "In time of great change, Sidney Wicks helped UCLA stay the same", Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009

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