Beverly Hills High School

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Beverly Hills High School
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The school in 2015
Address
Beverly Hills High School
241 Moreno Drive

Beverly Hills
,
California
90212

United States
Coordinates 34°03′46″N118°24′45″W / 34.062851°N 118.412464°W / 34.062851; -118.412464
Information
Type Public high school
MottoToday well lived
Established1927;97 years ago (1927)
School district Beverly Hills Unified School District
NCES School ID 060483000471 [1]
PrincipalDrew Stewart
Faculty82.46 (on FTE basis) [1]
Grades9th–12th
Enrollment1,220 (2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio14.80 [1]
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)  Orange
  Black
Athletics conference CIF Southern Section
Ocean League
Nickname Normans
NewspaperHighlights
YearbookWatchtower
Website bhhs.bhusd.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Beverly Hills High School (shortly as BHHS or Beverly) is a public high school in Beverly Hills, California. The other public high school in Beverly Hills is Moreno High School, a small alternative school located on Beverly Hills High School's campus.

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Beverly Hills High School is part of the Beverly Hills Unified School District and located on 19.5 acres (7.9 ha) on the west side of Beverly Hills, at the border of the Century City area of Los Angeles. The land was previously part of the Beverly Hills Speedway board track, which was torn down in 1924. Beverly, which serves all of Beverly Hills, was founded in 1927. The original buildings were designed by Robert D. Farquhar in the French Normandy style. The school previously received income from its on-campus oil tower.

History

Beverly Hills High School was originally in the Los Angeles City High School District. [2] On March 23, 1936, the Beverly Hills Elementary School District left the Los Angeles City High School District and formed the Beverly Hills High School District; by operation of law this became the Beverly Hills Unified School District. [3]

During the 1999–2000 and 2004–2005 school years, Beverly Hills High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, [4] [5] the highest award an American school can receive. [6] [7] Newsweek ranked Beverly Hills High School as the 267th best public high school in the country. [8]

Admissions

Most students are residents of Beverly Hills. As of 1991, the only non-resident students allowed to enroll in Beverly Hills High were employees of BHUSD, children of employees of the City of Beverly Hills, and a small number of students in the "multicultural program". Students in that program, which was financed by state funds tied to student enrollment, were required to supply their own transportation. [9] The program accepted 30 students each year. [10]

The program began in the 1970s in order to expose the predominately white students to other cultures. [10] Originally, the program only admitted students who graduated from Emerson Middle School in Westwood; however, due to complaints it was taking away the best students from University High School, which Emerson feeds into, it was expanded to 11 LAUSD middle schools in 1991. [9]

Beginning in the early 2010s, the governing board began to limit the admission of non-residents of Beverly Hills. Currently inter-district enrollment is permitted only for children of employees of the City, faculty/staff of the School District, and a small number of grandchildren of Beverly Hills residents. Most basic aid districts in California have no student permits, not even for faculty/staff children. [11]

Student demographics

As of 1991, 19% of the students were Iranian, and almost 20% of the students were either Asian, Black, and/or Hispanic. [10] In 2008, Beverly Hills High School had 2,412 students: 70% White, 17% Asian, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic. [12]

Beginning in 2010, when the Beverly Hills Unified School District adopted a basic-aid funding formula and ended its Diversity Permit program, [13] the demographics of Beverly's student body had shifted considerably. [14] [15] In 2014, the student body was 72% white, 16% Asian, 6% black, and 5% Hispanic. [16] By 2017, the high school total population had dropped to 1,482, and the demographics of enrolled students were: 73% Caucasian, 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 3% African-American. [17]

The student body is, as of 2008, predominantly Jewish. [18] Many students are Iranian Americans, many of whom at the school are Persian Jewish. [18] Due to the large number of students of Iranian origin, the school has historically scheduled a staff development day on or around Nowruz. [19]

As of 2012, about 35% of Beverly's current student body was born outside the United States, and 41% of its students speak a first language other than English. [20] As of 1991 home languages other than English included Mandarin Chinese, French, Hebrew, Korean, and Russian. [10]

As of 2022, according to a US News report, Beverly Hills High School has 29.6% minority enrollment. [21]

Some television shows, like Beverly Hills, 90210 , have been criticized for not accurately portraying the student body. [18]

Controversies

Enrollment controversies

The Beverly Hills Unified School District has faced controversies in student enrollment, mainly regarding diversity, and more recently, legacy enrollment (alumni preference). [22]

For many years Beverly has selected high-achieving students from twelve LAUSD middle schools on diversity permits in an attempt to increase the number of minorities enrolled. Selections have been made based on test scores, grades and writing samples. According to enrollment data for the 2006–2007 school year, however, seven out of ten students who entered the school this way were of Asian ethnicity. In April 2007, due to pressure from parents and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who criticized the school for not recruiting more African-American and Latino students, Superintendent Kari McVeigh agreed to extend the application deadline until April 27, as reported in the Los Angeles Times and The Beverly Hills Courier , hoping that more students from these minority groups would seek to enroll. According to the Beverly Hills Courier (May 25, 2007), "civil rights leaders hailed the final student selections" as "an honest effort to obtain ethnic diversity." [23] [24]

The school board voted 3–2 in the spring of 2008 to offer the children of alumni, who live outside the district's boundaries, preference in enrollment. The intended purpose is to influence these alumni to support the school district regarding bond measure or tax issues and fund-raising. Critics protest that, while legacy preferences are long established and constitutional for institutions of higher education (colleges and universities), legacy enrollment in public schools is anti-democratic and constitutionally questionable, and subverts public education to the benefit of the wealthy.

In 2012, the school board voted not to issue new inter-district permits for the upcoming school year, which effectively shut out students who could apply for special permission to attend BHHS. [25]

Subway tunnel underneath school

In 2008, voters approved a half-cent increase in the sales tax in order to expand the L.A. subway system. [26] The so-called D Line Extension would build out the subway through Beverly Hills at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion, adding seven new subway stations. [27] Ultimately, the new extension – called the “Subway to the Sea” – would connect downtown’s Union Station to the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. [28]

The next year, Beverly Hills voters elected Lisa Korbatov to the school board, where she served as president. [26] For nine years, until she left office in 2018, Korbatov led the school board and Beverly Hills city officials to oppose the expansion of the subway tunnel beneath BHHS, citing worries about explosions, carcinogens from seeping fumes, and even a possible terrorist attack. [26]

In October 2018, BHHS students protested against the plans to build the Metro D Line extension beneath the high school. [27] In addition to its 2,200 students, BHHS also serves as the emergency preparedness center for the city of Beverly Hills. [29] The city of Beverly Hills also sued the subway project in court in an effort to prevent it from building a tunnel underneath BHHS. The high school is built over an oil field (which is still active) and is located near an earthquake fault, so the city and school contended that the tunnel would pose a safety threat to students. [30]

Despite over $15 million expended on the litigation, much of it funded from school improvement bonds, the use of which was questioned by a citizen's oversight committee, [31] [32] the District was ultimately unsuccessful and on May 18, 2020, Judge George H. Wu ruled in favor of the Metro that it had satisfied the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act in documenting its choice of route. [33]

Oil wells

A cluster of nineteen oil wells in a single "drilling island" on Beverly's campus can easily be seen by drivers heading west on Olympic Boulevard toward Century City. The oil wells have pumped much of the oil from under Beverly's campus, and many have been slant drilling into productive regions of the western part of the Beverly Hills Oil Field under many homes and apartment buildings in Beverly Hills for decades. [34]

As of May 2006, the Beverly Hills High School wells were pumping out 400 barrels (64 m3) to 500 barrels (79 m3) a day, earning the school approximately $300,000 a year in royalties. [35]

In the late-1990s an art studio run by two Beverly High graduates volunteered to cover the well enclosure, which at that time was solid gray in color, with individual tiles that had been painted by kids with cancer. [36] The studio created the design and drew the lines on the tiles, but children painted the tiles in between the lines. The studio made the design rather abstract: the design consists of random shapes on different-colored backgrounds. A ceremony inaugurating the design was held in 2001.

Beverly gained more notoriety when Erin Brockovich and Ed Masry announced having filed three lawsuits in 2003 and 2004 on behalf of 25, 400, and 300 (respectively) former students who attended Beverly from the 1970s until the 1990s. In April 2003, the Texas-based lawfirm of Baron & Budd partnered with the law office of Masry & Vititoe to lend its expertise in lawsuits related to health risks of volatile chemicals. [37] The number of actual cancer claims filed in Santa Monica was ninety-four. [38]

The lawsuits claimed that toxic fumes from the oil wells caused the former students [39] to develop cancer. The oil wells are very close to all of Beverly's sports facilities, including the soccer field, the football field, and the racetrack. Beverly students—not just athletes but students taking required physical education classes from the 1970s until the 1990s—were required to run near the oil wells.

The city, the school district, and the oil companies named as defendants disputed this assertion, claiming that they had conducted air quality tests with results showing that air quality is normal at the high school. [40] In 2003, the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine published a "Community Cancer Assessment Regarding Beverly Hills, California" which failed to support Masry's claims. [41]

After receiving complaints about Beverly's oil installation, the region's air-quality agency investigated Venoco and in 2003 issued three Notices of Violation regarding the operation of the drilling island. The penalty settlement included requirements that Venoco maintain continuous air quality monitoring at the high school, and prevent any oilfield gas (which is primarily methane gas) from being released into the atmosphere. [42] [43]

On December 12, 2006, the first 12 plaintiffs (of over 1000 total) were dismissed on summary judgment because there was no indication that the contaminant (benzene) caused the diseases involved and the concentrations were hundreds to thousands of times lower than levels associated with any risk. [44] In the fall of 2007, the plaintiffs agreed to pay the School District and the City up to $450,000 for expenses from the lawsuits. [45] This payment of expenses is without prejudice to any of the plaintiffs in the case, which is on appeal.

In June 2004 Beverly Hills Courier Editor Norma Zager was named "Journalist of the Year" in the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards competition for her coverage of the Erin Brockovich-Ed Masry lawsuit. [46] Two books about the oil wells and lawsuit have been published, Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School by Joy Horowitz was published in July 2007 and Erin Brockovich and the Beverly Hills: Greenscam by Norma Zager was published in October 2010.

In 2017, Venoco filed bankruptcy and was liquidated. By January 2021 the oil wells were plugged and capped, and the derricks had been demolished. [47] [48]

Student life

In book

The 1988 non-fiction book Hard Lessons by Michael Leahy documents the life of six Beverly seniors for a full school year. In 1984, Beverly had a 100% graduation rate but three students committed suicide. These suicides piqued Leahy's interest in Beverly, and in 1985 he began writing Hard Lessons. [49]

Leahy had heard many stories about Beverly having intense academic pressure, substance abuse, and being a "den of hedonism." However, after speaking to Beverly students he concluded that sex and drug abuse were neither higher nor lower than at other local high schools. Beverly's social attitudes and morals were also nearly identical to these schools. Leahy did note that Beverly's academic pressure was unusually high which led to cheating and high anxiety amongst students. [49]

News services

KBEV Channel 6 is a student-run television channel at BHHS [50] that began in 1974 on Theta Cable as part of the public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels requirements for cable companies (free access by public-access television, education-access television and government-access television (GATV) entities in the community). KBEV airs a variety of programs, including the longest-running high school news program in the country, The Norman Newservice (now The Norman News [51] ). KBEV has hosted many important guests, such as Ronald Reagan, [52] in the past.

Newspaper

Highlights, the school's newspaper, has also won numerous awards for its reporting and writing. In October 2007, Highlights won first place in the 13th annual California State University Northridge Journalism Skills Competition, with a total of seven out of twelve possible awards in news writing, feature writing, opinion writing, sports writing and photojournalism. The Highlights staff recently took home awards from the national JEA conference in St. Louis, Missouri. In April 2009, the Highlights staff ranked 3rd place among the nation in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to regularly winning individual awards at the JEA/NSPA fall and spring conferences, Highlights placed seventh in the nation at the Minneapolis conference in November 2011.[ citation needed ]

Athletics

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Beverly Hills High School Gym

The Beverly Hills High School "Swim Gym" was designed by Stiles O. Clements and built in 1939 as a New Deal project. It features a basketball court that opens to reveal a 25-yard (23 m)-long swimming pool underneath. It is featured in Frank Capra's famous 1946 movie It's A Wonderful Life as the location of the dance. Sports including volleyball, basketball, wrestling, swimming and water polo can all be played in this facility. Beverly offers the following sports:

BHHS's stadium is a multipurpose facility that is used for football, soccer, baseball, lacrosse, and track and field.

Of the ninety football teams throughout the course of Beverly Hills High School's history, BHHS varsity football has won 12 Southern Section championships.[ citation needed ]

Performing arts

Beverly Hills High School has a Performing Arts Department that historically attracts casting directors, writers, agents, and producers to attend performances and to visit classes to speak with the students. [53]

Each year around late March to early April, the school holds its annual musical performance. Many of these musicals are based on Broadway award-winning musicals. BHHS is also famous for its Theater Acting Workshop, where only juniors and seniors who audition get in. Among many other celebrities, Nicolas Cage, David Schwimmer, and other actors once enrolled in this highly competitive class.[ citation needed ]

The lead drama teacher from 1964 to 1985 and department chair was the late John Ingle. After his retirement from teaching high school, Ingle had a prolific career as a soap opera and commercial actor, most notably as scheming patriarch Edward Quartermaine. Ingle made a last appearance in the role on General Hospital just days before his death in 2012. [54]

The BHHS marching band has been selected to perform at Disneyland several times in its history. [55] The marching band has also been invited to The London New Year’s Day Parade twice in its history, most recently in 2016. [56]

BHHS has a competitive Winter Drumline, which as of June 2012 was in its second competitive season. They compete in the SCPA and WGI circuits. The BHHS Drumline has performed such shows as "A Tour of Technology: The Inner-Workings of a Computer" and "Censor State: The State, The Conceded, The Resistance". [57]

Two award-winning choral groups, the Madrigal Singers (a chamber choir) and an introductory group, the Minnesingers, have existed since the early 1960s. Both groups have won a wide range of awards for their performances, usually at the Heritage Music Festivals. They have traveled across the United States to well-known locales such as San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Orlando, Washington, D.C., and even internationally to Mexico, France, and, in 1993, New Zealand. Additionally, in December, both groups go Christmas caroling to raise money for their festival trips. The groups were founded by Robert Holmes, who also helped found the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts Summer Music Festival see Idyllwild Arts Summer Program.

After Holmes retired in 1975, his former student, the late Joel D. Pressman '67, became the director of the Madrigal Singers until his death in 2013. Pressman is also a member of the school's Alumni Hall of Fame. [58]

The Dance Company holds its annual show in January. In 2007, the Dance Company traveled to its sister school in Cannes, France, where they were invited to perform. BHHS also has a hip-hop group, AP Posse, which performs in Dance Company showcases. BHHS Dance Company is currently run by Dana Findley, and was run by Janet Roston prior to that. In BHHS Dance Company showcases, student choreographed work is exhibited as well as work by guest choreographers. Some examples of these guest choreographers in recent years have been Sam Allen, Victoria George (dance teacher at Beverly Vista Middle School), Neaz Kohani and Janet Roston. [59]

Robotics team

The Beverly Hills High School FIRST Robotics Competition team, MorTorq – Team 1515 was founded in 2004. MorTorq won the Chairman’s Award (the most prestigious award the business team can receive) in 2010, 2013, and 2019 [60] at the Los Angeles Regional competition, and in 2014 at the Las Vegas Regional competition. [61] The team has won two Regional events: the Oregon Regional in 2010, [62] and the Los Angeles Regional in 2015. [63] MorTorq has attended the FIRST Championship in 2004, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019. 2019 was the first time the team was selected as a member of an alliance in Championship playoffs. [64]

In the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life: George (James Stewart) and Mary (Donna Reed) are dancing at the Bedford Falls High graduation party, in reality the gym of Beverly Hills High School. Dancing near the crack.jpg
In the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life : George (James Stewart) and Mary (Donna Reed) are dancing at the Bedford Falls High graduation party, in reality the gym of Beverly Hills High School.

Beverly Hills High School has been featured in many films and TV shows, either as part of the plot or as a filming location, including Clueless , Real Women Have Curves , Whatever It Takes , The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer , and It's a Wonderful Life . A major scene of It's a Wonderful Life was filmed in Beverly's unique "Swim Gym," perhaps the only gymnasium that has a basketball court that can split open to reveal a recreational-sized, 25-yard (23 m) swimming pool. [65] The gym in Beverly Hills High was also used in the video for boy band NLT's That Girl.

The front of Beverly High was shown in a short clip of Nickelback's music video for their song "Rockstar", although it only shows the part that reads "Hills High School" (the "Beverly" portion was cut off). The school was also in the cartoon show Totally Spies! , and it was often called "Bev High" for short. The book series The A-List follows a group of privileged teenagers and young adults from Beverly Hills, many of them who attend Beverly Hills High School and come from entertainment families and are known for their pro-activity.

Initially, the producers of the 1990s television drama Beverly Hills, 90210 wanted the show to be set at Beverly Hills High School, and the show to be filmed on Beverly's campus. The Beverly Hills school board declined both requests. So, the TV producers created the fictional "West Beverly Hills High School" (or "West Beverly") and the show was filmed at Torrance High School, in Torrance, California. "West Beverly" is a clear reference to Beverly, because Beverly's campus is located on the western border of Beverly Hills. However, the real Beverly is mentioned throughout the first three seasons of the show, alongside the fictional "West Beverly" High.

In a 2010 episode of the reality competition cooking show Hell's Kitchen , the titular restaurant hosts Beverly's prom.

The fictional school East Beverly Hills High School was in the book series The Privileged Life.[ citation needed ]

Notable alumni

Beverly Hills High School has a number of notable alumni, many of whom are entertainers, the children of entertainers or other prominent people. Many notable people have also taught at the school, including soap opera actor John Ingle, who taught drama and acting at the school from 1964 to 1985. While Beverly Hills High School alumni are known predominantly for their connections with the entertainment industry, the high school has also produced notable alumni in other fields.

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