Los Angeles High School

 school, high school

4650 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90019
(323) 900-2700
www.lahigh.org/

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 4,700 students in grades 9-12. 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 the Pico-Union District. 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.

Notable alumni
Fletcher Bowron, four term mayor of Los Angeles 1938 - 1953
Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
Nacio Brown, Jr., songwriter and son of Nacio Brown, Sr. who wrote Singing in the Rain
Charles Bukowski, writer, poet
John Cage, composer
Johnnie Cochran, attorney who defended O.J. Simpson
Mike Evans, actor
Dustin Hoffman, actor
Josephine Miles, poet
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
Mel Tormé, jazz singer
Francis J. Weber, historian, noted author on California's mission period
Bill and Milt Larsen, co-founders of The Magic Castle