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Glendale High School is an American High School located at 1440 Broadway Avenue East in Glendale, California. The school is the Flagship School of the Glendale Unified School District. High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...
The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. ...
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Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
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History
Glendale High School was founded as Glendale Union High School in 1901 by the residents of the villages of: Glendale, La Crescenta, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Ivanhoe, Tropico, and West Glendale. Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...
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Founded May 1, 1887 Incorporated July 8, 1911 General Information County Los Angeles County, California Latitude Longitude 34°1049 N 118°1942 W Area - Total - Water 45 km² (17. ...
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The first classes were held at the Glendale Hotel. The first principal was Mr. Llewellyn Evans and the school consisted of 2 teachers and 29 students. The next year, a new school building was built at the corner of what is today Brand Boulevard. and Broadway Avenue
Mr. George Moyse was appointed Principal and continued in his role for 35 years until 1937. The school continued to grow rapidly as the years progressed and moved repeatedly, first in 1907 to Harvard Street and then later in 1914 to Maryland Street 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
 Glendale Union High School in 1902, it was known as the "Cheesebox" due to its distinctive yellow colour. Again, the school continued to grow, as enrolment reached 800 in 1920 and 1,050 in 1921. It was decided then to move the Grade 10, 11, and 12 Classes to a new campus at the corner of present-day Broadway Avenue and Verdugo Road (Grade 9 students remained at the Maryland Street campus, and were later integrated into area Middle Schools). The school remains at this location to the present day. Image File history File links Glendale Union High School in 1902, it was known as the Cheesebox due to its distinctive yellow color. ...
 Glendale Union High School in 1929 The school suffered extensive damage during spring break in April 1964, when a student who was concerned about his grades set fire to the room he thought the grade information was stored. The fire quickly spread throughout the administration building and to adjacent buildings on the campus. The decision was made to reconstruct the campus, leaving the swimming pool, baseball field, tennis courts and football stadium as the only remanents of the old campus. Image File history File links Glendale Union High School in 1929. ...
In the early 1990's, the decision was made by the School Board to reintegrate ninth graders into the Glendale Unified School District high schools. As a result, a new building called J building was constructed in 1994-1995, opening in September 1995.
In 2001, Glendale High School celebrated its centennial, by this point, the student population was 3,500 and there were over 100 teachers.[1]
In 2001, the Glendale High School Visual and Performing Arts Programme (VAPA) was awarded the BRAVO Award for excellence in arts education by the Los Angeles County Music Center. In 2003, the Programme won another award, the Creative Ticket National School of Distinction Award from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Glendale High School was the only Public High School to be awarded this honour. Flag Seal Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ...
The Glendale High School Drill Team is nationally recognised, having won honors at Dance Competitions for the last 8 years.
On July 1, 2005, Ms. Kathy Fundukian replaced Mr. LeRoy Sherman and Mrs. Lou Stewart as Co-Principals, as part of a School District decision to move Glendale High School back to a "traditional" one-principal system from the two-principal system that had been in place.
Sports Glendale High School was among the first schools in Southern California to offer Athletic Sports, and the school's sport programme continues to be a major source of pride.
Glendale High School has two mascots, the Dynamiters in reference to the school Football Programme, and the Nitros in reference to all other sports.
Glendale High School offers the following sports:
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Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
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Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms, or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...
Traditions
Oratorical Every March, the school holds its annual "Oratorical" event, students from each class (Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12) are judged on: The tradition was started in 1910, during a time of heightened interest in Public Speaking in Southern California, it has continued through the years, demonstrating to the Community the pride students have in the school. Tableau vivant, Folies Bergères c. ...
The event is judged by a mixture of military personnel, as well as former alumni and other notable figures from the community. The use of military personnel in the judging process has been known to cause controversy by raising accusations of the indoctrination of students.
Newspaper and Yearbook The School Newspaper, the Explosion, was first published in 1917, and has continued to be published semi-quarterly for the past 88 years.
The School Yearbook, the Stylus, was started in 1909 as a monthly publication. In 1910, it became a quarterly publication, being published each quarter by a different grade level. Since then, it has become an annual publication.
Pat Navolanic Memorial Award The Pat Navolanic Memorial Award was established in 1966, in honour of Patrick Navolanic, a member and Valedictorian of the Class of 1963, who was remembered for being extremely active in school activities, and who died of suffocation in 1965 while on holiday in France.[2]
The award is given to the Grade 12 student who best exemplifies Navolanic's leadership traits, scholarship skills and athletic prowess, as decided by a council of electors representing all Student Organisations and Sports Teams on campus. The winner receives a scholarship in the amount of $1,000. The selection process is completely administrated by Students, and sponsored by the school National Honour Society (NHS). The scholarship money is made possible by generous donations from students, teachers, alumni, and the community.
Complete list of PNMA winners
Demographics Statistics for 2005-2006 School Year [3]
Students By Grade - Grade 9 - 820
- Grade 10 - 859
- Grade 11 - 793
- Grade 12 - 732
Gender and Ethnicity
Gender - Female - 1,665
- Male - 1,539
Ethnicity - American Indian/Alaskan Native - 2 (< 0.1%)
- Asian - 199 (6.2%)
- Pacific Islander - 4 (0.1%)
- Filipino - 257 (8.0%)
- Hispanic/Latino - 896 (28.0%)
- African-American - 47 (1.5%)
- White (Non-Hispanic) - 1,760 (54.9%)
It should be noted that the school, much like the city, has a significant Middle Eastern population. The city of Glendale is located in Los Angeles County, and is home to the third largest Armenian community outside of Armenia, after Moscow and Los Angeles. [4] The Glendale Unified School District does not count students' ethnicity other than the categories listed above. There is no "Armenian" or "Middle Eastern" classification. Instead, students of Armenian descent are counted only as "white (non-Hispanic)."
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References - "GLENDALE HIGH SCHOOL 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY" Congressional Record Online, 15 May 2001, retrieved 15 February 2006
- Enrollment Data - 2005-06 California Department of Education, retrieved 20 Apr 2006
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