Performing Art High School in the Belmont Zone of Choice

Schoolhouse in Los Angeles, California

Belmont Senior High Schoolhouse
Location
1575 West Second Street Los Angeles, California 90026
Coordinates	34°3′42″North 118°15′45″W  /  34.06167°North 118.26250°Due west  / 34.06167; -118.26250 Coordinates: 34°3′42″North 118°15′45″W  /  34.06167°N 118.26250°W  / 34.06167; -118.26250
Data
Type	Public
Established	September 11, 1923
Schoolhouse commune	Los Angeles Unified School District
Principal	Elsa Mendoza
Pedagogy staff	43.fifty (FTE)[i]
Grades	nine-12
Number of students	778 (2019-20)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	xix.77[1]
Campus	Urban
Color(s)
Athletics conference	Central League CIF Los Angeles Metropolis Section
Nickname	Sentinels
Rivals	John Marshall High Schoolhouse[2]
Website	Official website

Belmont Senior High Schoolhouse is a public loftier schoolhouse located at 1575 West 2d Street in the Westlake customs of Los Angeles, California.^[3] The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

History [edit]

Belmont High Schoolhouse athletic field showing City Hall at the lower left corner

Belmont High School opened in 1923.^[four]

The Hotel Belmont was the outset noteworthy building to stand up atop Crown Colina, the present site of Belmont Loftier School. Somewhen, the hotel was abandoned, and later it was transformed into the private Belmont Schoolhouse for Girls. Afterwards the school was destroyed by fire, the grounds were left vacant, except for five oil wells and a pumping plant for the Los Angeles Metropolis Oil Field. On February 28, 1921, the Los Angeles Board of Education purchased the site for $100,000, for the purpose of constructing Belmont High School.

Belmont opened its doors on September 11, 1923, to virtually 500 students, all sophomores, and 28 kinesthesia members. Nearly of the school's traditions were created by those pioneer students during the commencement months of the school's being. The school newspaper conducted an election to select its name, with "Sentinel" easily winning over "Progress." To this day, Belmont's students are known as Sentinels. Those first students favored "Sentinels" considering they were able to oversee the entire city from their "lookout" on Crown Loma. In some other election, the school'southward colors, green and black, were selected over brown and white. A mosaic mural by Joseph Young is located on the wall of the main building.

The 1923 Beaux-Arts campus was designed past Stanton & Stockwell, who designed several large civic buildings at the Civic Center, Los Angeles.^[v]

It was in the Los Angeles Urban center High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD.^[6]

Belmont High School was once the largest school in California, due to the density of the Westlake district, which information technology served. Information technology was also considered the largest schoolhouse in the United states, with 6,342 students. What was formerly the attendance area for Belmont High School has now go the Belmont Zone of Choice, where students have the option of attention one of nineteen small learning communities or pilot schools located on four different campuses inside the zone: Belmont Loftier Schoolhouse, Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, Edward Roybal Learning Center, and Ramon C. Cortinez School of Visual and Performing Arts.

Of these, the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex was opened in 2006, sharing Belmont'south attendance zone,^[7] subsequently LAUSD had begun as early every bit 2000 to devise plans to salve Belmont of many of its students.^[8] The West Adams Preparatory High School opened in 2007, further relieving Belmont; a section of the Manual Arts High School omnipresence zone was transferred to Belmont.^[9] The Loftier School for the Visual and Performing Arts (formerly known as Central Los Angeles Area Loftier Schoolhouse 9)^{[ten] [11]} opened in 2008. Central Los Angeles Loftier Schoolhouse xi (Edward R. Roybal (formerly Belmont) Learning Center),^[12] Central Los Angeles High School 12,^[thirteen] and the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Centers all opened in 2009.^[14]

Belmont underwent a major modernization beginning around 2005. The schoolhouse was renovated, and new pigment, bathrooms, doors, walls, and ceiling tiles were added. Facilities were besides updated throughout the school campus to adjust those with special needs (for example, the addition of wheelchair ramps). From the 2010 school yr, it became a 6th through 12th grade school, with Sal Castro Eye School being located on the campus. The Belmont football stadium was named for Dentler Erdmann, its long-time faculty member.

In 2011 the school was restructured, with nearly teachers having to reapply for their jobs. The new bookish program involves learning English, Spanish, and Mandarin.^[15]

Belmont High Schoolhouse Minor Learning Communities [edit]

Belmont High Schoolhouse hosts three Small Learning Communities (SLC'south; also called academies) which specialize in a career pathway:

• LAAMPS (Los Angeles University of Medical and Public Service), with courses in first responders and medical terminology
• SAGE (Science, Art and Dark-green Engineering science), with courses in automotive technology, drafting, and figurer assisted pattern
• Belmont Multimedia University, with courses in filmmaking, cartooning & blitheness, digital photography, digital imaging, and spider web page design

All Rankings [edit]

US News 2021 Rankings

• 100 in Los Angeles Unified School Commune Loftier Schools
• 379 in Los Angeles metropolitan surface area High Schools
• 1,122 in California High Schools
• 9,907 in National Rankins^[xvi]

United states of america News 2020 Rankings

• 153 in Los Angeles Unified School District High Schools
• 353 in Los Angeles metropolitan expanse High Schools
• 1048 in California Loftier Schools
• 8,688 in National Rankins^[17]

Demographics [edit]

Demographics of student trunk

Ethnic Breakdown	2021	2020 [eighteen]
American Indian/Alaskan Native	0%	0%
Hispanic and Latino American	88%	87%
Blackness	2%	2%
Asian American	7%	6%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	0%	0%
White	3%	iii%
Multiracial Americans	0.five%	1%
Female	forty%	forty%
Male	threescore%	sixty%

As of 2016^[update] the school had almost one,000 students, 25% of whom were of Central American origin. Some of those students immigrated without their parents.^[nineteen]

As of December 2013 the school had fewer than 1,000 students.^[20]

The school was congenital for a capacity of 2,500 students, and when it opened in 1923 it had well-nigh 500 students. Due to an enrollment decline in the 1950s the Los Angeles City High Schoolhouse District considered closing Belmont. By the 1990s the school had its peak enrollment, 5,500 students, making it California's largest high school and one of the largest in the United States. During that catamenia many students were reassigned to and sent on buses to schools in the San Fernando Valley because there were too many students in Belmont.^[20] In the 1997-1998 school year the school had 5,160 students. At the time, the school's dropout charge per unit was 65% and in terms of its four-yr graduation rate information technology ranked lower than 96% of Los Angeles County high schools. 72% of the enrolled students took free lunches.^[21]

The enrollment declined in the 2000s due to the opening of charter schools and LAUSD opening schools to salvage capacity. In 2001 the LAUSD began a building campaign to relieve the capacity of the school.^[20]

Due to overcrowding, Belmont had a yr-round schedule for 26 years, until the 2008 opening of the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center. Later on the opening Belmont resumed having a traditional two-year school schedule.^[22]

Bookish functioning [edit]

In 2011 the school had an Academic Performance Alphabetize (API) of 639, an improvement of about 100 points in a ii-yr menses. Jason Vocal of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the score was "still poor".^[15] In 2013 its API was 668, an increase of over 175 points from the 2002 effigy. The Land of California API goal is 800.^[20]

Notable kinesthesia [edit]

• Sal Castro (1933-2013), activist (faculty)^[23]

Notable alumni [edit]

• Veronica Porché Ali, (1955–nowadays), actress, model
• Patrick Arguello (1943–1970), US-Nicaraguan national killed in the attempted hijack of an El Al flight, as carried out by the PFLP.^[24]
• John Beradino (1917–1996) (born Giovanni Berardino), actor, major league baseball game player^[25]
• Ron Botchan, NFL official^[26]
• Irwin Corey (1914–2017), American comic, motion-picture show & television histrion, and activist^{[27] [28]}
• James C. Corman (1920–2000), Congressman, Los Angeles City Councilman^[25]
• Richard Crenna (1926–2003), actor^[29]
• Brad Dexter (1917-2002), actor and film producer
• Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (1922-2014), baseball player
• Craig Ellwood (1922–1992), builder^[30]
• Abel Fernandez (1930–2016), actor with Robert Stack on The Untouchables
• Mike Frankovich (1909–1992), picture producer^[31]
• Murray Fromson, CBS News correspondent and USC professor^[31]
• Luis (Lou) Gomez, MLB player^[31]
• Jacinto Guevara, creative person, musician^[32]
• Odetta Holmes (1930–2008), folk vocaliser, activist^[33]
• David A. Karnofsky (1914–1969) medico, medical oncologist, known for the Karnofsky score
• Young-Oak Kim (1919–2005), highly busy gainsay veteran; 1937 graduate^[25]
• Willa Kim (1917–2016), 2007 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, 2 time Tony and Emmy Award-winning costume designer and 1935 graduate of Belmont; the older sis of Immature-Oak Kim.^[25]
• Ralph Lazo (1924–1992), civil rights activist
• Richard Lee-Sung - role player, Imperial Heart recipient, Korean War^[34]
• Glenard P. Lipscomb (1915–1970), Congressman^[31]
• Robert Lyles, NFL actor^[35]
• John McCarthy (1927–2011), computer scientist, coined the term artificial intelligence, invented LISP family of programming languages, won the ACM Turing award in 1971^[36]
• Loren Miller Jr., Los Angeles County Superior Court Approximate^[25]
• Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), actor^[31]
• Anthony Quinn (1915–2001), player^[31]
• Mort Sahl, humorist^[29]
• Reiko Sato, (1931–1981), dancer and actress
• William Sidell (1915–1994), labor leader^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Jack Smith (1916–1996), columnist, journalist^[37]
• Mike Stoller, songwriter^[25]
• Coy Watson Jr. (1912–2009), child histrion, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Watson Family^[31]
• Delmar Watson (1926–2008), actor, photo-journalist, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Watson Family unit^[38]
• Harry R. Watson (1921–2001), role player, photograph-journalist, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Watson Family^{[39] [forty]}
• Jack Webb (1920–1982), producer, director, thespian^{[29] [41]}

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Belmont Senior High". National Heart for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
2. ^ Mario Villegas, A 'Classic' for many reasons, ESPN Los Angeles, Nov four, 2010
3. ^ Westlake, City of Los Angeles, department of City planning.
4. ^ Belmont High Alumni
5. ^ "Belmont High Schoolhouse", Los Angeles Conservancy
6. ^ "Los Angeles City Schoolhouse Commune". Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved 2020-ten-27 .
7. ^ "Central LA Area New HS #10, 55.98039." Los Angeles Unified School District. Accessed October 29, 2008.
8. ^ "Regular Meeting Club of Business." Los Angeles Unified Schoolhouse Commune. Tuesday June 27, 2000.
9. ^ Proposed Changes to Westward Adams Preparatory High Schoolhouse Area Schools, School Yr 2007-2008 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Facilities and Services sectionalisation, L.A. Schools.
10. ^ Central LA Surface area New HS #9, 55.98037, Facilities and Services partitioning, L.A. Schools.
11. ^ Central L.A. Area New H.Southward. #nine, Facilities and Services sectionalization, L.A. Schools.
12. ^ Key LA HS #11, 55.98107, Facilities and Services partition, Fifty.A. Schools.
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14. ^ "two. Proposed Changes to Lincoln Loftier School Surface area Schools, Schoolhouse Year 2009-2010^{[ full citation needed ]}." Los Angeles Unified School Commune. Retrieved on March 17, 2010.(registration required)
15. ^ ^{a b} Song, Jason. "Struggling Belmont Loftier to be restructured." Los Angeles Times. Jan 27, 2011. Retrieved on March 29, 2014.
16. ^ "usnews". Retrieved 2021-08-27 .
17. ^ "usnews". Retrieved 2019-08-xi .
18. ^ "usnews". Retrieved 2020-12-16 .
19. ^ Carcamo, Cindy (2016-07-16). "Most 1 in 4 students at this 50.A. high school migrated from Cardinal America — many without their parents". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2016-x-25 . - Spanish version: Uno de cuatro estudiantes en esta preparatoria migró de Centroamérica, muchos sin sus padres
20. ^ ^{a b c d} Ceasar, Stephen (2011-12-25). "Lower enrollment at once-crowded Belmont Loftier brings mixed results". Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
21. ^ Chelton, Mary K. (Young Adult Library Services Association). Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults: The Nation's Top Programs. American Library Association, 2000. p. 73. ISBN 0838907865, 9780838907863.
22. ^ Blume, Howard (2008-08-10). "New name, new life for Belmont school". Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
23. ^ XISPAS interview with Sal Castro, parts one Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine and ii Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine
24. ^ American Feel: Hijacked, PBS.org, Feb. 24, 2006
25. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Belmont Alumni
26. ^ Ron Botchan: "I'm Just Coachable", Referee, 2000
27. ^ Shapiro, T. Rees; Shapiro, T. Rees (2017-02-07). "Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World's Foremost Say-so, dies at 102". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-02-07 .
28. ^ Kilgannon, Corey (2011-x-11). "A Familiar Figure Begs on the Street, but Not for Himself". City Room Weblog. The New York Times . Retrieved February 7, 2017.
29. ^ ^{a b c} Ramos, Lydia. "Melting Pot of Belmont High Brims With Hopes and Plans Series: OUR SCHOOLS: A Closeup View; 1 of an occasional series." Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1991. Nuestro Tiempo, Metro Desk-bound. Page 4.
30. ^ California Mod, the Architecture of Craig Ellwood, past Neil Jackson
31. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} The Baseball Cube Belmont alumni Archived 2010-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
32. ^ Burman, Jenny (21 July 2011). "Artist Jacinto Guevara Returns to Repeat Park". Repeat Park-Silver Lake, CA Patch . Retrieved 29 December 2020.
33. ^ Los Angeles Times
34. ^ IMBd
35. ^ Databasefootball.com Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
36. ^ Biographical sketch: (15-Sep-1999)
37. ^ Los Angeles Times obituaries, January 10, 1996
38. ^ Andres, Holly J. "Famed news photographer Delmar Watson dies Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine." Daily News. October 28, 2008.
39. ^ Pool, Bob. "Star Shines Brightly for Hollywood'southward Kickoff Family; Movies: The Watson clan of former child actors finally receives recognition for its pioneering contribution to films." Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1999. Metro Part B Metro Desk Page 1
40. ^ Campanile 1938, Belmont High School, 1938
41. ^ Merely the Facts, Ma'am; The Authorized Biography of Jack Webb, Creator of Dragnet, Adam-12, and Emergency by Daniel Moyer and Eugene Alvarez

External links [edit]

• Belmont High Schoolhouse

martingarink1937.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_High_School_(Los_Angeles)

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