Verdugo Hills High School

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Verdugo Hills High School
Verdugo Hills High School
Victory with Honor
Location
10625 Plainview Avenue
Tujunga, Los Angeles, California
Information
School district Los Angeles Unified School District
Principal Diane Klewitz
Enrollment

2,112 (2006-2007)
Type Public
Grades 9-12
Mascot Don and Donette
Color(s) red, black (often with white)
Established 1937
Newspaper La Yuca
Homepage Official website

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

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.

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[edit] 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" which the campus overlooks to the south.

[edit] Schedule

Verdugo Hills is the only school in LAUSD to host the Copernican Block Schedule. Implemented in the fall of 1998, VHHS has found numerous success with this schedule. Most students have 3 classes per 10 weeks terms, each class lasting for 90 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. This schedule has had some positive outcomes over the years. Test scores have risen, attendance has improven, and graduation rates have risen as well. The school's pass rate for the CAHSEE is third in the district behind El Camino Real High School and Granada Hills Charter High School, despite very different student populations. 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 afterschool job.

[edit] 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 [1]

Television movies [2]

Television series [3]

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

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