Hollywood High School

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Hollywood High School
Hollywood High School entrance
Achieve The Honorable
Location
1521 N Highland Ave, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California 90028
Information
Type Public
Established 1903
Principal Jaime Morales (2009- Current) Preceded by Fonna Bishop
Grades 9 - 12
Campus Urban
Color(s)          Crimson, White
Mascot Sheiks
Newspaper The Crimson Chronicle
Website hollywoodhighschool.net
This article is about Hollywood High school, a secondary school. For the computer game, see Hollywood High.

Hollywood High School is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located on the intersection of Highland Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.

The school serves Hollywood, Beachwood Canyon, and Outpost Estates. Some areas (including sections of West Hollywood) are jointly zoned to Hollywood High School and Fairfax High School.

Hollywood High School was established in 1903. The school, which covers grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The current principal of the school is Jaime Morales.

The school's colors are crimson and white and its mascot is The Sheik, based on the Rudolph Valentino movie, The Sheik.

The Hollywood High Organ Opus 481 was a gift from the class of 1924. After suffering severe water damage from the Northridge earthquake in 1994, it was restored in 2002.

Bancroft Middle School and Le Conte Middle School feed into Hollywood High School.

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[edit] School's Educational System

The Hollywood High school is a school with many Small Learning Communities. The reason for this is to give more attention to each individual student and their talents and allows the counselors to motivate their students to 'achieve the honorable'.


[edit] Skateboarding

Hollywood High School is a famous landmark and popular for skateboarders, which has a 12 set on one side and a 16 set behind it. It has has appeared in many movies, including Menikmati (2000), This is Skateboarding (2002), Yeah Right (2003), Round Three (2004), Forecast (2004), Lakai Fully Flared (2007), and Nancy Drew (2007).

Some tricks down the 12

  • Andrew Reynolds - Fakie Kickflip, Nollie Kickflip, Nollie Back 180 and Switch Frontside Flip
  • Eric Koston - Nollie to Front Noseblunt
  • Paul Rodriguez - Switch Kickflip & Switch Frontside Heel
  • Chris Haslam - Kickflip to Back Smith
  • Jamie Thomas - Front Smith, Front 180 to Front Nosegrind
  • Arto Saari - Backs Smith
  • Chris Cole - Back 270 to Front Lip,
  • Dustin Dollin - Kickflip to Back Crooked, Front Blunt
  • Jim Greco - Nollie Backside Flip
  • Evan Hernandez - Kickflip and Switch Ollie
  • Ramiro "Furby" Salcedo - Half-Cab Kickflip, Nollie Backside 180 Heelflip
  • Greg Lutzka - Front 270 to Front Board to Fakie
  • Bryan Herman - Front OverCrooked, Stalefish
  • Theotis Beasley - BS Heel
  • KeChaud Johnson - 360 Flip

Some tricks down the 16

  • Dan Modern - Frontside Flip
  • Andrew Reynolds - Ollie, Front Lip, Front 180 , Kickflip and a Frontside Flip over the rail
  • Arto Saari - Switch Front Board
  • Jamie Thomas - Back Lip
  • Chris Cole - Switch Front 180, Noseblunt and Tucknee
  • Dustin Dollin - Back Blunt to Fakie
  • Braydon Szafranski - Front 5-0
  • Joey Poiriez - Front Tail
  • Ramiro "Furby" Salcedo - Switch Ollie
  • KeChaud Johnson - Frony Smith Grind and Front Lip
  • Carlos Lastra - Double Kickflip
  • Nick Meliszewski - Varial Heelflip
  • DJ Fort - Front Blunt
  • Nyjah Huston - Back Feeble

[edit] Notable alumni

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Hollywood High School (at center), 1906

Hollywood High School has over 500 notable graduates or attendees, including:

[edit] Cameos

Hollywood High was also used as the site for a skit on Penn & Teller: Bullshit! series on Showtime. (Season 5, Episode 1, "Obesity")

Hollywood High School is seen in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and in the Nancy Drew 2007 film.

Hollywood High School appears in the movie Made, written and directed by Jon Favreau.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Klein, Alvin. "Actress, 18, Has Some Regrets", The New York Times, October 30, 1983. Accessed December 27, 2007. "Before attending Hollywood High School, she was a student at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood."
  2. ^ Woo, Elaine. "Togo W. Tanaka dies at 93; journalist documented life at Manzanar internment camp", Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2009. Accessed July 7, 2009.
  3. ^ Favreau, Jon (2001). Made script by Jon Favreau. (See page 17, line 23) Retrieved on June 2, 2008.

[edit] External links

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