Los Angeles High School
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| Los Angeles High School | |
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| Los Angeles High School at night | |
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| 4650 West Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States |
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| Type | Senior High School |
| Established | 1873 |
| Principal | Elena Anthony |
| Enrollment | 2,000 |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Mascot | Romans |
| Alumni | L.A. High Alumni Association |
| Website | [1] |
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Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are blue and white and the teams are called the Romans.
Los Angeles High School is a public secondary high school, enrolling an estimated 2,000 students in grades 9-12 and operates on a year-round basis consisting of three tracks. Los Angeles High School receives accreditation approval from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Concurrent enrollment programs, provided in large by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Community College District, are offered with West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles City College, or Santa Monica College.
Los Angeles High School is a large, urban, inner-city school located in the Mid-Wilshire District of Los Angeles. The attendance boundary consists of a contrasting spectrum of economic diversity ranging from affluent Hancock Park to the low-income, densely populated immigrant community of Koreatown. Within the school is a College Incentive Magnet Program, which operates on Track C. Forty-four percent of the student population is identified as LEP, or Limited English Proficient. Currently, 66% of the students are identified as eligible to receive supplemental instructional services and materials through the Federal Title I Program.
The magnet high school is a university preparatory secondary high school program and a "school within a school." First established as a part of student integration services in the 1970s, the Los Angeles High School Math/Science/Technology magnet prepares students with an intensive, rigorous course load in order to better prepare them for university entrance. There are 317 students enrolled in the magnet program, grades 9-12.
Typically, the senior class has approximately 35% of seniors entering into four-year universities and schools. The magnet senior class typically has 85% of its senior class entering into four-year colleges and universities.
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[edit] History
Until recently, buildings commissioned to house the school were among the architectural jewels of the city, and always were strategically placed at the summit of a hill, the easier to be pointed to with pride. (One of the school's mottos is "Always a hill, always a tower, always a timepiece.") Construction on LAHS' original building began on July 19, 1872. Opening in 1873, it was originally located at the site of the current Los Angeles County Court House at Temple and Broadway, approximately 34°03′20.44″N 118°14′36.48″W / 34.0556778°N 118.2434667°W.
In 1879 a school natural science club, the Star And Crescent Society, was founded and consisted then of the entire student body. It soon left its specific focus on science and became a de facto student government and organizational body. Actual student government was instituted in the early 1900s, eliminating one of the main reasons for Star and Crescent's existence. Meanwhile, as the size of the student body increased over years, the younger classes were successively dropped from Star and Cresent until by 1935 only seniors were members. Star and Crescent probably disappeared around the time of the second World War, but is difficult to determine since no one at the school today can tell exactly when it ended. In particular, no yearbooks were published during the years of America's involvement in that war, and it seems likely it might have disappeared during those years. At least by 1923, if not before, Star and Crescent seems to have become a largely symbolic organization whose main purpose was the "pinning" ceremony at the end of each semester, when the pin was awarded to seniors due to graduate the next day.
In 1891, LAHS moved to its second building and location on nearby Fort Moore Hill, located on north Hill Street between California (now the 101 Freeway) and Sunset Boulevard (now César E. Chávez Avenue) at 34°03′30.39″N 118°14′32.84″W / 34.0584417°N 118.2424556°W. It eventually became the location for the Fort Moore Hill Pioneer Memorial and the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District (which moved in 2000). LAHS would move to its present location in 1917, where an edifice which became an international cultural landmark was erected for the famed school. To insure a permanently beautiful vista for their contemplation, and to honor classmates who had fallen in World War I, the students purchased the land across the street for the creation of a tree-filled, memorial park.
For many years The Blue and White Daily was one of the few high school newspapers to be published every weekday morning during the school year. In 1962, "Daily" was dropped from the name and the publication became a weekly.
The popular late 1960s and early 70s television series Room 222 was filmed here. The 1917 building sustained moderate cosmetic damage, principally in the tower area, during the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. Efforts spearheaded by the Alumni Association, founded in 1876, to repair and preserve the iconic structure were opposed by certain commercial interests, who lobbied for its demolition, and finally decisively thwarted when it was gutted by a fire of mysterious origin. The replacement structure has been universally decried and finds no champions among either current or former students and faculty, or residents of the neighboring community.
The school population peaked at 4,800, but overcrowding at the school has been relieved by West Adams Preparatory High School, which opened in the 2007-2008 school year.[2][3]
[edit] Neighborhoods served by LAHS
Neighborhoods zoned to LAHS include Harvard Heights, Brookside,[4] Lafayette Square, Little Ethiopia, portions of Hancock Park, and portions of Pico-Union District.
Many new families in some neighborhoods, including Lafayette Square, do not send their children to public schools.[5]
[edit] Notable alumni
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- Pauline Betz Addie, tennis champion
- Mel Almada, first Mexican-American in Major League Baseball
- Anne Baxter, actress
- Scotty Beckett, actor
- Fletcher Bowron, four term mayor of Los Angeles 1938 - 1953
- Ray Bradbury, author[1]
- Larry Brown, Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders cornerback, Super Bowl XXX MVP
- Charles Bukowski, writer, poet
- John Cage, composer
- Richard Chew, film editor (Star Wars, The Conversation, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ...)
- Johnnie Cochran, attorney who defended O.J. Simpson
- Lillian Copeland, Olympian (discus, gold)
- Lynn "Buck" Compton, War Hero (Band of Brothers), Convicted Sirhan Sirhan as DA of LA County
- Gary Conway, actor
- Jorel Decker aka J-Dog of Hip-Hop / Rock music group, Hollywood Undead married to Victoria Amber Swain
- Aileen Eaton, boxing promoter
- Mike Evans, actor
- Siedah Garrett, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
- Marjorie Gestring, Olympian (swimming and diving)
- Carl Greenberg, newspaperman for the Los Angeles Examiner and The Los Angeles Times
- Dustin Hoffman, actor
- Christianne Meneses Jacobs, writer, editor and founder of Iguana Magazine (the nations only Spanish-language magazine for children.)
- Cornelius Cooper Johnson, Olympian (track and field)
- Ninja Jorgensen, 1968 Olympian (Women's Volleyball)
- Willis Lamb, shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for discoveries related to the superfine structure of the hydrogen spectrum
- Piper Laurie, actress
- Christyne Lawson, dancer
- Homer Lea, general in the army of Sun Yat-sen and a writer of several books of geopolitics
- Linda Levi, artist
- Marilyn McCoo, Grammy Award-winning singer-actress (The 5th Dimension)
- Bob Meusel, baseball player
- Josephine Miles, poet
- Budge Patty, tennis champion
- Madlyn Rhue, actress
- Charles Francis Richter, inventor of the Richter Scale
- Frederick Madison Roberts, first African American to be elected to the California State Legislature (1919-1933)
- Budd Schulberg, Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Leonard Slatkin, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra
- Miiko Taka, actress
- George Takei, actor
- William Irwin Thompson, Poet and cultural Historian
- Mel Tormé, singer
- Francis J. Weber, historian, noted author on California's mission period
- Elton Wieman, college football coach
- Bill and Milt Larsen, co-founders of The Magic Castle
- Anna May Wong, one of the most famous Chinese American actresses in the US
[edit] Current Administration
- Elena Anthony, Principal
- Dr. Moohay Choe, Assistant Principal
- Carlos Garcia, Assistant Principal
- Richard Jenssen, Assistant Principal
- ChiChi Ogbuagu, Assistant Principal, Extended Learning Academy (ELA)
- Cynthia Headrick, Assistant Principal, School Improvement Facilitator (SIF)
- Evelyn Torres, Magnet Coordinator
[edit] Advanced Placement Program
Students are accepted into the Advanced Placement Program and individual advanced placement classes based on faculty and counselor recommendations. A student may be admitted into an AP class by request if the AP instructor has approved the request.
- Biology
- Calculus AB and BC
- Chemistry
- English Language and Composition
- English Literature and Composition
- Environmental Science
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Physics C: Mechanics
- Psychology
- Spanish Language
- Spanish Literature
- Statistics
- Studio Art Drawing, 2-D, and 3-D
- United States History
- United States Government and Politics
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