Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles)

Alexander Hamilton High School
Location
Los Angeles, California
United States
Information
Type High School
Established 1931
Locale 2955 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90034
34°02′00″N 118°23′23″W / 34.033451°N 118.389667°W / 34.033451; -118.389667
Principal Brenda Pensamiento
Grades A-F System
Number of students 3,022
School color(s) Green and White
Athletics Hamilton High School Yankees
Athletics conference Western League
CIF Los Angeles City Section
Mascot "Yankees"
Website Hamilton Home Page

Alexander Hamilton High School is a public high school in the Castle Heights neighborhood within the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is in the Los Angeles Unified School District. It was established in 1931.

History

Hamilton High School opened in fall 1931, with Thomas Hughes Elson as the principal.[1] Arthur George Waidelich was the second principal (1935-1936) and died at the school. The theater was named in his honor, a brass plaque denoting this was removed during renovation. At the time, its attendance boundaries included Culver City,[2] and in 1932 they extended as far north as Mulholland Highway.[3]

Early photographs from the school's archives show the campus in its pre-World War II state, with only the main building completed. The photos show dozens of 1920s and 30s cars parked along Robertson Boulevard in front of the school. The bell tower still exists today, but no longer houses a working bell.

Today, there exists Brown Hall (which houses administrative offices, the library, and classrooms and is named in honor of Jack Brown, a noted electronics instructor), the lab building, the tech building, the humanities building, the music building, and other structures. There is a large Theater Hall, named Pattiz Hall, a cafeteria, two gym buildings, boys' and girls' gym, and a workshop building. Adjacent is a Department of Water and Power building and Cheviot Hills High School, a continuation school. The athletic fields include Al Michaels Field (a football and track stadium named for sportscaster Al Michaels, Hamilton's most famous alum).

In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton were rezoned to Venice High School.[4]

Demographics

As of 2011-2012

  • Gifted and talented 23%
  • Students with disabilities 11%
  • English learners/ESL 10%
  • Reclassified fluent/English proficient 29%
  • Economically disadvantaged 43%
  • Students entering and leaving 19%

Small Learning Communities

Hamilton High is divided into six "small learning communities," or SLCs," which coordinate their own curricula and staff. They are:

During the 2008/2009 school year, the L & M (Leadership & Management) was eliminated and the students were placed in the four remaining non-magnet SLCs.

Academy of Music and Performing Arts

The Music Academy gained national attention in June of 2002 when the Disney Channel premiered the reality TV show Totally in Tune, which chronicled members of the Academy's Symphony Orchestra. As an interesting aside, local tenor saxophone player Kamasi Washington is also a 1999 graduate.

The Music Academy is a Grammy-recognized school.

Co-curricular activities

Hamilton's school newspaper is called The Federalist, a reference to and the original name of The Federalist papers initiated and largely written by Alexander Hamilton.

The Humanities Magnet operates an editorial called "Die WeltanshauunG" ("World View").

Neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton

Keystone-Mentone complex, a student family housing facility of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), is zoned to Hamilton.[5][6] Rose Avenue Apartments was previously zoned to Hamilton, but was rezoned to Venice High School in 2007.[7][8]

Feeder schools

Palms Middle School, Webster Middle School and Marina Del Rey Middle School feed into Hamilton. Louis Pasteur JHS (now LACES), fed some of its graduates to Hamilton.

Notable alumni

Filming location

The school has been used for several movies, television shows, and music videos.

TV Shows

Movies

Music Videos

References

  1. ↑ The Citizen, June 12, 1931, p. 10, and November 20, 1931, p. 1
  2. ↑ "Culver City History :: Schools". City of Culver City. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
  3. ↑ The Citizen, January 29, 1932, p. 11.
  4. ↑ "Proposed Changed to Hamilton High School Area Schools" (PDF). Los Angeles Unified School District (Laschools.org). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 26, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Keystone-Mentone Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. "Location: Keystone/Mentone Apartments 3767-3777 Mentone Avenue 3770-3780 Keystone Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90034"
  6. ↑ "School Finder." Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on October 2, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Rose Avenue Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. "Location: Rose Avenue Apartments 11140 & 11130 Rose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90034"
  8. ↑ "Proposed Changed to Hamilton High School Area Schools" (PDF). Laschools.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 26, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  9. ↑ McQuaid, Peter (December 17, 2000). "BOXER REBELLION". Los Angeles Times Magazine. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
  10. ↑ Vacchiano, Ralph (September 26, 2009). "Former Giants 'Touchdown Maker' Stephen Baker still making a difference". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
  11. ↑ "California Assembly District 47". California Assembly. Archived from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  12. ↑ "Full Biography | Congresswoman Karen Bass". U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  13. ↑ "Howard Berman (D)". The U.S. Congress Votes Database - 113th Congress. The Washington Post. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  14. ↑ "Committee Member". U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary. Archived from the original on 2007-12-26. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  15. ↑ Lindell, Karen (2 August 2011). "Spider-Man's Reeve Carney talks about Bono, Edge and his band". @U2. @U2. Retrieved 2011-08-16. Education: Hamilton Academy of Music, Los Angeles, CA
  16. ↑ Patti, Greco (October 7, 2015). "Sisters Kaitlin and Portia Doubleday on "Empire" and "Mr. Robot," Sibling Rivalry, and High School". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  17. 1 2 "Chronic Groove - Mike Elizondo Brings Diversity & Soul To Dr. Dre’s Hip-Hop World". Bass Player Magazine. San Bruno, California. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
  18. ↑ Katz, Mickey (1977). Papa, play for me. Hannibal Coons, foreword by Joel Grey, introduction by Josh Kun. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-8195-6433-8. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  19. ↑ "Education for Rita Hayworth". TCMdb. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  20. ↑ "Emile Hirsch Biography". Yahoo! Movies. AEC One Stop Group, Inc. Retrieved 2009-04-22. Education: Paul Revere Middle School, Brentwood, CA, Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA
  21. ↑ "Mystery Writer Remembers His Days at Hamilton High". Los Angeles Times. June 18, 1997. Retrieved 2013-10-01. Mystery writer Walter Mosley, whose 1990 novel, "Devil in a Blue Dress," was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington, is a 1970 graduate of Hamilton High School.
  22. ↑ "Paula Patton Is Pregnant Actress", celebrity.rightpundits.com, March 9, 2008
  23. ↑ The Official Web Site of Shade Sheist
  24. ↑ Chute, David (July 1, 2007). "Film critic Joel Siegel '65 memorialized in scholarship". UCLA magazine (Los Angeles, California). Retrieved 2014-12-26. Siegel had in fact edited satirical campus humor magazines at both Hamilton High ("The Iconoclast") and UCLA ("Satyr").
  25. ↑ "ALL OF HOUSTON'S ARTICLES!". Houston Message Board. Powered by Invision Power Board. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
  26. ↑ Ashokani Class: Hamilton High School Yearbook (Summer 1970 ed.). 2955 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA: Ashokani Class. 1970. p. 31.
  27. ↑ Crowe, Jerry. "In time of great change, Sidney Wicks helped UCLA stay the same", Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009

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