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Venice Senior High School and Venice Foreign Language Magnet
Venice High School
Address
Map
13000 Venice Boulevard

Venice, Los Angeles
,
California
90066

United States
Coordinates33°59′55″N 118°26′34″W / 33.99861°N 118.44278°W / 33.99861; -118.44278
Information
TypePublic high school, Language Magnet
MottoRowing, Not Drifting
Established1911 (LAUSD 1925), (Magnet 1988)
PrincipalDr. Elsa H. Mendoza
Enrollment2773 (including 526 from magnet)
CampusUrban
Color(s)Blue, White
WebsiteOfficial website
[1]

Venice High School is a public high school located in western Los Angeles, California within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The school contains a Foreign Language and International Studies Magnet, Bilingual Business and Finance Academy(BBFA) and a New Media Academy. The school is known for offering a large number of Advanced Placement classes.

The school's English-language newspaper is The Oarsman and its Spanish-language newspaper is El Heraldo Latino. A bohemian literary journal characteristic of the area, Written Voice, features students' poetry, short stories, and other work. An unofficial newsmagazine, The Venice Independent, was formerly run by Venice students.

A famous statue modeled by movie legend Myrna Loy when she was a student stood for 70 years at the front of the school, but was taken down in 1991 after vandalism and wear and tear. A bronze-cast replacement statue was mounted before 2000 onlookers in an April 2010 ceremony.

The school's current principal is Dr. Elsa H. Mendoza. The vast majority of the students are Mexican-American, with small minorities of non-Hispanic whites, blacks and Asians.[2] Despite the fact that the school is east of Walgrove Avenue, which forms the boundary with the adjacent neighborhood of Mar Vista, the boundaries of the neighborhood of Venice actually extend east of Walgrove to encompass the campus.

Several neighborhoods, including Venice, Marina Del Rey, Mar Vista, and Del Rey, feed into Venice High School.

Elementary schools in the Venice High district include Beethoven Elementary, Mar Vista Elementary, Playa del Rey Elementary, Short Avenue Elementary, Westminster Avenue Elementary School and Coeur d'Alene Avenue Elementary School. Marina Del Rey Middle School, Daniel Webster Middle School, Mark Twain Middle School, and Palms Middle School feed into Venice. Until LAUSD established sufficient capacity in the area during the immediate post-World War II period, Culver City-based Betsy Ross Elementary, now closed, was actually the principal feeder to the then 7-12th grade high school.

History

The school was first established in 1911 (then called "Venice Union Polytechnic High School") when classes were held in an old lagoon bathhouse. It moved to a new neo-romanesque structure at its present location a decade later.

On March 10, 1933, the school was seriously damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. As a result, classes were held in hastily constructed tents for two years until a replacement school was built. Art Deco earthquake-resistant buildings were built in 1935, which are still used by the school today.[3]

On June 5, 2006 around 3:05 PM, 17-year old Augustin Contreras, an 11th grader at Venice, was fatally shot in the school's faculty parking lot. Contreras had intervened in a fight between his two younger brothers and a few other men who did not attend the school. The victim lived in Mar Vista, California.[4][5][6][7][8]

In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton High School were rezoned to Venice High School.[9]

On May 15, 2009, students staged a walk out in response to LAUSD increasing class sizes and cutting teachers.[10] Students who engaged in the walkout are receiving support by the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild in clearing their truancies on that particular day. A similar walkout occurred in 1951 when school administration disqualified a candidate for student body office because of a questionable campaign speech. Administration retaliated by focusing on agitators within the heretofore self-selective service clubs, suspending the clubs and then reorganizing them later with a more pliant membership. Small protests (e.g. graffiti, lawn burnings, tree fellings) continued sporadically for a year.[11]

Filming location

Venice High School was used as the Rydell High School location for the 1978 movie Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It was also used in other movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Pretty In Pink, American History X, Matchstick Men, and Heathers, as well as in several music videos, including Britney Spears' international hit ...Baby One More Time, Bowling for Soup's "High School Never Ends", and Young MC's "Principal's Office" [3]. Venice is also in The Faders "No Sleep Tonight". Additionally, aerial photographic images of the school were used to show the location of the high school in the 1987 movie Masters of the Universe.

Notable alumni

Notable Venice High alumni and students include:

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Venice Senior High School
  2. ^ "Venice High School Demographics".
  3. ^ Stanton, Jeffrey (1998-06-21). "Venice Schools". Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  4. ^ ABC News
  5. ^ LA Times
  6. ^ Fox News
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ http://www.laschools.org/employee/mpd/fs-mpd/download/07-08_webmaps/Proj04.pdf
  10. ^ http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-teachers-protest16-2009may16,0,3048095.story. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) [dead link]
  11. ^ Goldberg, Angela (June 12), "A New and Improved Venice Student Union is in Progress", The Oarsmen {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  12. ^ "Craig Breedlove". Bluebird Electric Racing Limited.
  13. ^ Bromfield, John (2006-02-19). "The Autobiography of John Bromfield". John Bromfield. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  14. ^ Reynolds, Alan (2004-04-06). "Jan & Dean". National Review Online. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  15. ^ "Astronaut Bio: Walter Cunningham". Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  16. ^ http://www.laweekly.com/general/deadline-hollywood/hirschs-hornets-nest/9057/?page=2
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