Hollywood High School

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Hollywood High School
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Achieve The Honorable
Location
1521 N Highland Ave, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Information
Type Public
Established 1903; 113 years ago (1903)
Principal Alejandra Sanchez
(2012–present)
Grades 9–12
Campus Urban
Color(s)          Crimson, White
Mascot Sheiks
Website hollywoodhighschool.net
Hollywood High School Historic District
Built 1910 et seq
Architectural style Art Moderne
NRHP Reference # 11000989[1]
Added to NRHP January 4, 2012

Hollywood High School is a four-year public secondary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, located at the intersection of North Highland Avenue and West Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.

History[edit]

In September 1903, a two-room school was opened on the second floor of an empty storeroom at the Masonic Temple on Highland Avenue, north of Hollywood Boulevard (then Prospect Avenue). Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in November 1903. 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. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 2012.[2][3]

The school's mascot was derived from the 1921 Rudolph Valentino film of the same name, The Sheik. In the 2015-2016 Fall Football Season the boys Varsity football team played in the schools 3rd championship game led by head coach Frank Galvan. They finished the season with a 12-2 overal record.[4]

Filming location[edit]

Hollywood High School mural

Hollywood High has been the filming location for movies, television shows, and other productions, including the following:

Mural[edit]

In 2002, artist Eloy Torrez painted a mural of 13 famous entertainers, titled "Portrait of Hollywood", across the entire east wall of the school's auditorium.[6][7] From left to right, the entertainers displayed are Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores del Rio, Brandy Norwood, Selena, Lana Turner, Laurence Fishburne, Cantinflas, Carol Burnett, Cher, Ricky Nelson, Bruce Lee, Rudolph Valentino, and Judy Garland. In 2007, Torrez added a 50-foot (15 m) tall mural of John Ritter, who died four years earlier, on the connecting portion of the building's north wall.[8] All but four of the entertainers, Cantinflas, Lee, Selena and Valentino, were students at Hollywood High School.[citation needed] The artist said the mural is a celebration of a diverse ethnic range of actors and entertainers.[9]

Present Day Learning Academies[edit]

Hollywood High School is an excellent school for teenage kids to find their calling and prepare for a life of success. Besides having history of spotlight, cinema, and path to fame it has become a very diverse school. Students have many opportunities with the different branches of education this school offers, you are not limited to one choice. Hollywood High school offers four academies to students, each of them have a different purpose to make sure students feel that they belong there.

Teaching Career Academy Hollywood High school offers a Teaching Career Academy (TCA) to students that have a desire to work with children as a career. The careers may include becoming a teacher or social worker. In order to give student a little experience, the school works with other elementary schools to get elementary students get tutored by Hollywood High School students. [10]

Performing Arts Magnet If a student seeks an entertainment career, Performing Arts Magnet, is the best choice for him. This academy helps students developed their talents and personalities to become a young star artist. The academy focuses on training students to developed their skills of actor, singer, or dancer.[11]

New Media Technology If students prefer to go into the industry of technology such as filming, this academy offers the best opportunities. The New Media Technology works with students to build their knowledge of technology. They provide hands on experience with equipment that you would normally see at a studio. The software they work with is the newest up to date and more advance compare to other schools. This academy also provides internships to studnets after they graduate they can immediately start working in that field.[12]

School for Advance Studies This academy is very unique because it does not focus on a specific career but gets students prepare for a university life. If a student likes to be challenge in education, this academy offers classes that are the same level of difficulty+ as a college class.[13] They provide many programs to students to make sure they are achieving their potential. The academy is best well known to prepare students for their future careers and getting them into the best university around the country. [14]

Alumni[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 
  2. ^ Hollywood HS students; Lazzaretto, Christine (July 21, 2011). "National Regiwster of Historic Places Registration Formn: Hollywood High School Historic District (draft)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 24 January 2012. 
  3. ^ "Hollywood High named to register of historic places". Los Angeles Times. January 23, 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012. 
  4. ^ LeBlanc, Rena (Fall 2012). "Hollywood High Revisited". Discover Hollywood Magazine. 
  5. ^ Favreau, Jon (2001). Made script by Jon Favreau. (See page 17, line 23) Retrieved on June 2, 2008.
  6. ^ Deoima, Kate. "Hollywood High School." About.com. Retrieved on March 23, 2010.
  7. ^ Johnson, Reed. "A marriage as a work of art; Eloy Torrez paints with intensity. Margarita Guzman assists with a sense of calm. But it was her brush with death that helped him see his work in a new light." Los Angeles Times. October 12, 2003. E48. Sunday Calendar, Part E, Calendar Desk. Retrieved on March 23, 2010. Info page. "HOLLYWOOD HIGH: Eloy Torrez and his mural on an east-facing wall of the..."
  8. ^ "John Ritter photo added to mural" (Archive). The Hollywood Reporter. June 5, 2008. Retrieved on March 23, 2010.
  9. ^ Kerr, Mike (May 21, 2003). "Celebrating Santa Paula's Latino Culture". Santa Paula News. 
  10. ^ http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=64224&type=d&pREC_ID=102177
  11. ^ http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=64225&type=d&pREC_ID=100880
  12. ^ http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=64229&type=d&pREC_ID=743316
  13. ^ https://d2ct263enury6r.cloudfront.net/XMFCoqc9JmgNICHW3KyMs1eSV7NdaTnYpKwrzoUI7UvzdFrP.pdf
  14. ^ http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=64226&type=d&pREC_ID=100886
  15. ^ Frank, Anthony M. In: Charles Moritz (Editor): Current Biography Yearbook 1991, volume 52. New York 1991, page 227.
  16. ^ 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."
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Frank, Anthony M. In: Charles Moritz (Editor): Current Biography Yearbook 1991, volume 52. New York 1991, page 227.
  19. ^ "Father's children". Radio Television Mirror. 36 (3): 18. August 1951. Retrieved 1 August 2016. 

External links[edit]

Coordinates: 34°05′56″N 118°20′24″W / 34.099°N 118.340°W / 34.099; -118.340

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