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North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the huskie, and the school colors are blue, white, grey.
North Hollywood High School is located in the San Fernando Valley and enrolls approximately 3000 students each year. It is located in local district 2 of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Several neighborhoods, including most of North Hollywood, Valley Village, Studio City, and Sun Valley, send students to this school.
As of 2008, the school principal is Dr. Randall V. Delling.
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North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the huskie, and the school colors are blue, white, grey.
North Hollywood High School is located in the San Fernando Valley and enrolls approximately 3000 students each year. It is located in local district 2 of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Several neighborhoods, including most of North Hollywood, Valley Village, Studio City, and Sun Valley, send students to this school.
As of 2008, the school principal is Dr. Randall V. Delling. From 2000 to 2007, North Hollywood High was a year-round school with 3 tracks (A, B, and C). During the 2007-2008 school year, a traditional calendar was re-adopted. The school itself is divided into small learning communities that include various academies with a wide range of focuses, including Entertainment and Media, Social Justice, Transportation Careers, Home Engineering, Humanities (DaVinci), Environmental Health Awareness, and Acquiring Bilingual Leaders in Education (A.B.L.E.)
Second High School opens in North Hollywood - 2006
In 2006 East Valley High School opened, relieving North Hollywood ; grades 9 and 10 in the eastern portion of the North Hollywood attendance zone were reassigned to East Valley, with 11th and 12th grades phased into East Valley over a two-year period
Zoo Magnet
Begun in 1981, this magnet is a specialized school that buses its students out to a site next to the LA Zoo. At this site, the approximately 300 students who attend take all the regular classes such as history, math, and English. The difference is that there are several classes, as well as the challenging Advanced Placement classes, related to biological and zoological sciences, which the students can choose from in place of chemistry or physics, and as general electives. Many of these classes also include fun trips into the zoo for tours and observation. This is the only school in LAUSD that has the privileges to have ties with the Los Angeles Zoo. One class, animal behavior, requires observation time in the zoo; the class meets three days per week (each class meets only three days, lasting two hours each) - during class time. Another class, animal husbandry, requires community service, working with the wildlife in different areas of the zoo.
Highly Gifted Magnet
The HGM program was established at North Hollywood High in 1989, having already been a successful program at schools like the nearby Walter Reed Junior High School, for students who have a measured IQ of 145+ and is designed to provide an academically challenging college preparatory program. The 300 students in grade 9-12 study a stringent, rigorous curriculum commensurate with the most demanding of public or private schools in the country. The HGM student is a well-rounded individual whose emotional, intellectual and physical success is fostered by involvement in the regular high school and community. These students have gained immeasurably by interacting in a culturally diverse, urban high school. The program seeks to prepare students to thrive in the most demanding of university environments. Students display a variety of interests in their extracurricular activities and academic directions.
Notable alumni
- Scott Baio, actor
- Mayim Bialik, actor
- Francesca Lia Block, author
- Adam Carolla, comedian and radio personality
- Bert Convy, actor, game show host
- Edan Everly, musician, singer, songwriter, producer, actor
- Terri Garr, actor
- Cuba Gooding Jr., Oscar award-winning actor
- Omar Gooding, actor
- Brian Austin Green, actor
- Lenora Claire, artist, model
- Khrystyne Haje, actor
- Alyson Hannigan, actor
- Lili Haydn actor, musician
- Sasha Jenson, actor
- Arthur Lee, athlete
- Elizabeth McGovern, actor, singer
- Christina Milian, singer, actor
- Martin Milner, actor
- Shawnee Smith, actor
- Susan Sontag, academic
- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, pianist and composer
- Ken Weatherwax, actor
- Morgan Webb, G4 television show host
- John Williams, composer who is best known for writing the film scores for Star Wars, and Indiana Jones
- Philip Zimbardo, psychologist
- Marlon Lucky, running back for the Nebraska Cornhuskers 2005-2008
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