Gardena High School

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Gardena High School
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Address
Gardena High School
1301 West 182nd Street

Gardena
,
California

United States
Coordinates 33°52′03″N118°17′48″W / 33.867378°N 118.296586°W / 33.867378; -118.296586
Information
Type Public
Motto"Breaking Ground for the Future"
Established1901
School district Los Angeles Unified School District
PrincipalFrank Davies (2020-present) [1]
Staff75.20 (FTE) [2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,407 (2023-2024) [2]
Student to teacher ratio18.71 [2]
Color(s)   Dark green and white
Athletics conferenceMarine League
CIF Los Angeles City Section
MascotPanther (formerly, The Mohicans, until it was changed after the class of 1998)
Website www.gardenashs.org

Gardena High School (GHS) is a public high school in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, adjacent to the City of Gardena. [3] It serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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Small Learning Communities

Gardena High School has two magnets and two academies on campus: the Global Business Magnet, the Law and Public Service Magnet, the Creative Arts Academy and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Academy.

History

GHS opened in 1907. [4] [5] In Spring 1956, the junior high school classes stayed at the old Gardena High School while the high school classes moved into a new building designed by architects Henry L. Gogerty (1894–1990) and D. Stewart Kerr. [6] Up until the opening of the new Gardena High School, high school students held morning shifts, while junior high school students held afternoon shifts. [7] The junior high is now known as Peary Middle School.

It was in the Los Angeles City High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD. [8]

Attendance boundary

The school serves the City of Gardena, portions of Carson, and portions of Los Angeles (including Harbor Gateway and portions of Wilmington). [9]

Features

The northern end of the campus has LAUSD staff housing, Sage Park Apartments. [10] It takes up 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) of land. It opened in 2015. [11] Its buildings have three and four stories each, and 90 units total are present. [12]

Demographics

As of the school year 2008–09, there were a total of 3,186 students attending the high school. [4]

Notable alumni

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