Jordan High School (Los Angeles, California)

David Starr Jordan High School
Location
2265 East 103rd Street. Los Angeles, California 90002
Information
Type	Public
Established	1923
Locale	33°56′39.04″N 118°13′51.45″W / 33.9441778°N 118.2309583°WCoordinates: 33°56′39.04″N 118°13′51.45″W / 33.9441778°N 118.2309583°W
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	2,300
Color(s)	Royal Blue, White
Athletics conference	Eastern League CIF Los Angeles City Section
Mascot	Bulldog
Nickname	Jordan
Website	Official website

David Starr Jordan High School is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles. The school was named for David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University (from 1891–1913).

Some sections of Florence-Graham, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County, are jointly zoned to Jordan and John C. Fremont High School. The Gonzaque Village, Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs, and Nickerson Gardens public housing developments of Los Angeles are zoned to Jordan.

The school colors are Royal blue and white and the mascot is a bulldog.

Prior to the 2005 opening of South East High School, Jordan served portions of the City of South Gate.^[1][2]

Jordan is one of a few high schools to have three, unrelated, Olympic gold medalists come from the same high school in Hayes Edward Sanders, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Kevin Young. Sanders, in 1952, became the first African American to win the Olympic Heavyweight Boxing Championship while both Griffith-Joyner and Young still hold the current World Record in their respective events.

King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science opened in bungalows of Jordan in 1982.^[3] In 1999 it moved to a standalone campus in Willowbrook.^[4]

Notable alumni

• Earl Battey, former professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins)
• George Brown, long jumper^[5]
• Buddy Collette, jazz saxophonist
• Michael Douglass, All-Pro linebacker for the Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers; owner of Alpine Fitness in San Diego
• Ron Fairly, former professional baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, California Angels) and broadcaster
• Florence Griffith-Joyner, multiple-Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the 100 meters and 200 meters
• John L Hanks attended Jordon High School as John Portley (educator), founding faculty member of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law http://www.cardozo.yu.edu
• Aaron Holbert, former professional baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds) and current manager of the Mississippi Braves
• Ray Holbert, former professional baseball player (San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Royals)
• Brenda Holloway, Motown recording artist
• Leon Hooten, former professional baseball player (Oakland Athletics)
• Gail Hopkins, former professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers)
• Charles Mingus, jazz bassist
• Roger E. Mosley, actor
• Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Red Lobster)
• Wally Parks, founder of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), Class of 1931
• Fletcher Joseph Perry, NFL Hall of Fame running back^[6]
• Ron Riley, former professional basketball player
• Hayes Edward Sanders, Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medalist; first African American to win Olympic heavyweight title
• Paul Scranton, professional basketball player
• Glenn T. Seaborg, discoverer of Plutonium and 1951 Nobel Prize–winning chemist ^[7]
• Sylvester, disco singer and drag queen, graduated in 1969.^[8]
• Raymond Brantley, first black lacrosse player in LAUSD and only player to have his number 6 retired.
• James Washington, NFL player
• The Whispers (singers) Walter and Wallace Scott of
• Britt Woodman, jazz trombonist, Class of 1938
• Kevin Young, 1992 Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles
• Le-Lo Lang, NFL Corner Back, Denver Broncos

References

1. "Proposed Changes to South East HS Area Schools" (Archive). Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
2. "South Gate city, California." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
3. Landsberg, Mitchell. "This King/Drew, a Magnet School, Is a Robust Success." Los Angeles Times. April 27, 2005. p. 1. Retrieved on April 16, 2014.
4. Landsberg, Mitchell. "This King/Drew, a Magnet School, Is a Robust Success." Los Angeles Times. April 27, 2005. p. 2. Retrieved on April 16, 2014.
5. "Track and Field Record 1949 Season" (pdf). Helms Athletic Foundation. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
6. "Joe Perry". databaseFootball.com. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
7. Nobel biography
8. Gamson, Joshua (2005). The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco. New York City: Henry Holt and Co. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8050-7250-1.

External links

• Jordan High School