Jordan High School (Los Angeles) Explained

Jordan High School
Established:1923
Type:Public
Grades:9-12
Principal:Alex Kim
Staff:33.83 (FTE)
Ratio:15.34
Enrollment:519 (2018-19)[1]
Conference:Eastern League
CIF Los Angeles City Section
Colors: Royal blue
White
Mascot:Bulldogs
Free Label:Nickname
Free Text:Jordan
Location:2265 East 103rd Street.
Los Angeles, California 90002
Locale:33.9442°N -118.231°W

Jordan High School, formerly David Starr Jordan High School, is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles. Until October 2020, the school was named for David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University (from 1891 to 1913). The school colors are Royal blue and white and the mascot is a bulldog.

Some sections of Florence-Graham, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County, are jointly zoned to Jordan and John C. Fremont High School. The Gonzaque Village, Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs, and Nickerson Gardens public housing developments of Los Angeles are zoned to Jordan.

Jordan is one of a few high schools to have three, unrelated, Olympic gold medalists come from the same high school in Hayes Edward Sanders, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Kevin Young. Sanders, in 1952, became the first African American to win the Olympic Heavyweight Boxing Championship while Griffith-Joyner still holds the current World Record in her respective event.

It was in the Los Angeles City High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD.[2]

With public input from the local community, the Los Angeles Unified School District school board unanimously voted in October 2020 to officially shorten the name of the school to "Jordan High School" and remove all references to David Starr Jordan.[3] [4]

Modernization

From early 2015 through late 2016 Jordan High School was temporarily closed for modernizations and new construction at the school. Students moved to a different school during renovations.

Prior to the 2005 opening of South East High School, Jordan served portions of the City of South Gate.[5] [6]

In March 2017 LAUSD sued the Los Angeles Housing Authority, stating that contaminants seeped onto the Jordan site from the neighboring Jordan Downs housing project.[7]

Notable alumni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jordan Senior High. National Center for Education Statistics. March 10, 2021.
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/19980207051712/http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/history/schoollist.html. 1998-02-07. dead. Los Angeles City School District. Los Angeles Unified School District. 2020-10-27.
  3. News: Blume . Howard . 2020-10-08 . Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name . 2020-10-09 . Los Angeles Times.
  4. News: LAUSD removes eugenicist from name of L.A.'s Jordan High: Renaming of campus buildings a growing trend amid racial justice movement . . October 9, 2020 . Linh . Tat . 2020-10-09.
  5. "Proposed Changes to South East HS Area Schools" . Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
  6. "South Gate city, California ." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
  7. News: Kohli, Sonali. L.A. Unified sues city housing authority over cost of lead, arsenic cleanup at Watts high school. Los Angeles Times. 2017-03-03. 2017-03-06.
  8. Web site: Track and Field Record 1949 Season . . May 6, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180920123708/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/HELMS/Track/HelmsTrackAnnual1949.pdf . September 20, 2018 . dead .
  9. Web site: Joe Perry . databaseFootball.com . November 26, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130808010044/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=PERRYJOE01/ . August 8, 2013 .
  10. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1951/seaborg-bio.html Nobel biography
  11. Book: Gamson, Joshua . The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco . 2005 . Henry Holt and Co . New York City . 978-0-8050-7250-1 . 31 . Gam05 . registration .

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