Verdugo Hills High School

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Verdugo Hills High School
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Verdugo Hills High School
10625 Plainview Avenue
Tujunga, Los Angeles, California 91042
Coordinates 34°15′44″N118°17′55″W / 34.26218°N 118.2986°W / 34.26218; -118.2986 Coordinates: 34°15′44″N118°17′55″W / 34.26218°N 118.2986°W / 34.26218; -118.2986
Information
Type Public
MottoVictory with Honor
Established1937
StatusOpen
School district Los Angeles Unified School District
DeanLisette Duran
Darren Fitzgerald
PrincipalArturo Barcenas
Assistant PrincipalMarine Davtyan
Carrie Medeiros
Staff74.48 (FTE) [1]
Grades9-12
Number of students1,212 (2019-2020) [1]
Student to teacher ratio1:16.27 [1]
Color(s)    Black, Red, and White
Mascot Don
Newspaper La Yuca
School Television Broadcast Eye on Verdugo (IOV)
Website www.verdugohs.org

Verdugo Hills High School (VHHS) is a public school located in the Tujunga community of Los Angeles, California, United States, within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

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The school serves students from several areas of Los Angeles, including Sunland-Tujunga, Lake View Terrace, and portions of North Hollywood, Sun Valley, and Shadow Hills.

History

The school officially opened for classes for the first time on September 13, 1937, with 437 students enrolled in grades 7 through 11. Verdugo Hills High School was built on the site of a lemon orchard next to the original Plainview Avenue Elementary School.

The school district was going to name the new school Calvin Coolidge High School, but Congressman John Steven McGroarty and others lobbied successfully to have the name changed to reflect the "green Verdugo hills" to the south which the campus overlooks.

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

The 2009 opening of Sun Valley High School relieved Verdugo Hills of increasingly crowded conditions. [3]

Schedule

Verdugo Hills is the only school in LAUSD to host the Copernican Block Schedule. VHHS has experienced widespread success with this schedule since it was implemented in the fall of 1998. Most students have 4 classes per 10-week terms, each class lasting for 77 minutes. Semester courses are now 10 weeks in length and previous year-long courses are now 20 weeks. Athletics, band, and other activities have been moved to an optional 4th period. This gives an opportunity for a student to accomplish more before graduation. In addition, students taking the optional fourth period every semester can graduate a semester, or more, early. Students not opting to take a fourth period are released at 1:12 every day, allowing more time to complete homework or to work an after-school job.

CIF Champions

The 2015 girls' volleyball team, led by captains Shelley Quema and Ashley Aglanao, became CIF Champions for 2 consecutive years.

On Saturday, June 2 - Charlie Rocca, an MLB prospect at the shortstop position, powered the Dons (23-13 overall and a co-East Valley league title with Polytechnic High School) to their 1st-ever CIF-LACS Division 1 title in a 4-2 extra-inning contest over the first-ranked Carson Colts at Dodgers Stadium. Junior starter Nick Rodriguez poured in eight fantastic innings and senior center-fielder Dakota Gray scored the game-winning run in the top of the 9th, in which Gray caught the final out. Junior Nick Masumoto, the CIF D1 Pitcher of the Year, finished the season with a 0.95 ERA and overall record of 8&4 in 88 1/3 innings, striking out 62 to nine walks. Rocca ends his Dons career with 25 bombs (14 of which came in 2018). [4] [ better source needed ]

Notable alumni

Filming location

In proximity to the Hollywood movie industry, the school website claims that VHHS has been "the location of choice for more movies, television shows and commercials than any other school in the world".

The school was a filming location in the following films, television movies, television series:

Films [7]

Television movies [8]

Television series [9]

The music video of Selena Gomez's Bad Liar, My Chemical Romance's Teenagers , and Marilyn Manson's Fight song are filmed at the school, as well as Disney Channel's Legendary.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 LAUSD Normal Count
  2. ↑ "Los Angeles City School District". Los Angeles Unified School District. Archived from the original on 1998-02-07. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  3. ↑ "Proposed Changes to Sun Valley High School Area Schools," Los Angeles Unified School District . Retrieved on March 17, 2010.
  4. ↑ Owens, Eric. http://sfvnews.blogspot.com.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 1 2 "2012 Hall of Fame Inductees". Carl Boldt. Glendale Community College. 2013. Archived from the original on November 21, 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Jerry Tao (October 7, 2002). "News Brief - Tiffany Montgomery a.k.a. Ryan Starr". Verdugo Hills High School. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ "On Location! FEATURE FILMS." Verdugo Hills High School. Accessed September 19, 2008.
  8. ↑ "On Location! TV MOVIES." Verdugo Hills High School. Accessed September 19, 2008.
  9. ↑ "On Location! SERIES TELEVISION." Verdugo Hills High School. Accessed September 19, 2008.
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