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Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles, California)

December 20, 2023

Abraham Lincoln High School, usually referred to simply as Lincoln High School, is a secondary school located in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles, California, United States. Located in the East Los Angeles-area community, surrounded by El Sereno, Chinatown, Boyle Heights and Cypress Park. The school is named after Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, and was one of the first public high schools established in California. It is one of the District 5 high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the US.

Abraham Lincoln High School
Address
3501 N. Broadway

Los Angeles
,
California
90031

United States
Information
TypePublic
Opened1878
School districtLos Angeles Unified School District
PrincipalRose Anne Ruiz
Teaching staff58.51 (FTE)[1]
Grades9th-12th
Enrollment1,066 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio18.22[1]
Color(s)Black and orange   
Athletics conferenceNorthern League
CIF Los Angeles City Section
MascotTiger
Team nameLincoln Tigers
WebsiteOfficial website

Lincoln students are drawn from Chinatown and other areas. Cypress Park residents may attend either Lincoln or Franklin High School.

History edit

 
Lincoln High School in the 1920s.

The early history of Lincoln High School is unusually complicated because, over the years, it has served all three of the typical grade configurations—elementary school, middle school and high school. What eventually became Lincoln High School was originally established in 1878 as Avenue 21 Grammar School. By 1913, the Avenue 21 school had become an intermediate school and its student population had grown to the point that a new campus was needed. That year the intermediate school moved to the present Lincoln High School site, and the curriculum expanded to include the senior high school grades. This marks the true beginning of Lincoln High. Pending the construction of a new school (the current site) on the former mansion property of Charles Woolwine, the Avenue 21 intermediate school moved its location to the hillside site (now the current physical education and track field), where students studied under the trees.[2] In the early 1970s, students from all six upper grades attended the school together.[3]

In 1878, the plant was extended across Lincoln Park Avenue, which is now the current site. In 1881, the school added a gymnasium. In 1924, a science building was added. The present school was built extensively in the 1940s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration reform. Much of the construction and renovations occurred after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, which damaged the gymnasium, the auditorium, the music building, the library and the English building.[4] Jim Tunney Stadium, home to Lincoln's football and track teams, was built during the reconstruction of Lincoln High School.

It was in the Los Angeles City High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD.[5]

Beginning in the latter part of the 1960s, Lincoln High School became a focal point for the emerging Chicano civil rights movement that was fueled by student activism which called for a more culturally sensitive educational curriculum and access to college preparatory courses for Mexican American students. Encouraged by Sal Castro, who championed equal educational opportunity as a Lincoln High faculty member, students at Lincoln organized a mass walk-out in protest of sub-standard facilities, vocational program tracking for Chicano youth and discriminatory practices which excluded them from advanced college prep courses.[6] In March 1968, Lincoln High students led the first wave of what became the largest student strike in the history of public education in US. The "Blow-out" was joined by students from at least three other area high schools, among them Garfield, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Belmont and Wilson.

In 2009 the opening of the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Centers relieved Lincoln.[7]

In 2015, Lincoln High School's baseball team won the CIF Los Angeles City Section Division II baseball championship, defeating Cesar Chavez High School of San Fernando by a score of 3–0 in a game played at Dodger Stadium. It was the school's second baseball championship, and the first one since 1935.

Demographics edit

Demographics of student body
Ethnic Breakdown 2021 2020[8] 2019
Native Americans 0% 0.3% 0.4%
Hispanic and Latino American 73% 75% 73%
Black 2% 2% 1%
Asian American 24% 21% 23%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0% 0% 0%
White 2% 1% 1%
Multiracial Americans 0.1% 1% 0.5%
Female 48% 49% 47%
Male 52% 51% 53%

Lincoln is mainly made up of a large Hispanic and Asian student body, though there is a smaller African-American and White student population.

In 2019, Lincoln serves around 1,005 students in grades nine to twelve, with a student-teacher ratio of 19:1 (54 full-time teachers).

The racial/ethnic enrollment breaks down as the following (as of the student class of 2008–2009):[9]

  • American Indian - 0.3%
  • Asian - 30.8%
  • Filipino - 0.3%
  • Pacific Islander - 0.1%
  • Black - 0.9%
  • Hispanic - 80.1%
  • White - 0.5%

Academics edit

Overview edit

In 2008, Lincoln was ranked as the 900th best high school in the US in the Challenge Index.[10]

US News 2021 Rankings

US News 2020 Rankings

US News 2019 Rankings

Magnet edit

Lincoln High School's Magnet program[14] was established in 1999. The Magnet program has a maximum of 226 students, ranging from grade levels 9 to 12. The program offers opportunities for students to participate in courses and activities with an emphasis on science, mathematics and technology.

Science Bowl edit

Lincoln has a Science Bowl team that has been running for fifteen years. Lincoln has two teams with 5 students in each team. Competing students must have a knowledge base in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and general science. Science Bowl uses a buzzer system, in which students must buzz in and wait to be recognized by a moderator before proceeding to answer a question. Lincoln has consistently scored in the top five in the Regional Science Bowl competition.

Academic Decathlon edit

Lincoln maintains an Academic Decathlon program for its students. Competing students in the program are placed into one of three teams based on their skill level: Varsity, Scholastic and Honors. The program covers language & literature, economics, art, music, mathematics, social science and science. In addition, students are required to write essays, participate in interviews, give speeches and take part in a Super Quiz, which focuses on a selected subject determined by the United States Academic Decathlon each year.

Speech and Debate edit

Formed in 2008, Lincoln is one of the 15 schools that are a part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate League (LAMDL). LAMDL is one of the networks of Urban Debate Leagues that promotes debate for many urban high schools. In 2009, the Los Angeles Urban Debate League (as it was previously known) merged with a USC's Neighborhood Debate League, creating LAMDL.

Lincoln has a highly successful policy debate team, competing and winning major tournaments both locally and nationally. Lincoln has won some of the most prestigious tournaments in California, including the California State Invitational held at the University of California Berkeley as well as the Pepperdine Invitational Debates, and clearing into eliminations in tournaments like the University of Southern California's David Damus Trojan Championships. In 2009, Lincoln won four of the six local tournaments, winning City Championships, and, in 2010, won five of the six local tournaments. In 2009, Lincoln debated at the Chase Urban Debate Nationals, held in Chicago, and returned to the Nationals again in 2010, clearing into eliminations, and again in 2011, placing fifth overall.

Academic Performance Index (API) edit

API for Lincoln High School.

School 2007[15] 2008[16] 2009[17] 2010[18] 2011[19] 2012 2013[20]
Abraham Lincoln High School 594 609 588 616 643 761 738

Feeder Patterns edit

A majority of the students come from Florence Nightingale Middle School, El Sereno Middle School.

Notable alumni edit

Media edit

Abraham Lincoln High School is used prominently as both itself and the fictional "Clayton College" in the 1927 Buster Keaton film College and briefly appears at the end of the movie Walkout (a real life video in the end credits).

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Abraham Lincoln Senior High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  2. ^ . Archived from the original on December 31, 2006. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
    - http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/cards/007/0614084-073.jpg
  3. ^ "Abraham Lincoln High School Alumni Association". Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  4. ^ "New User Registration" (PDF).
  5. ^ . Los Angeles Unified School District. Archived from the original on February 7, 1998. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  6. ^ . UNC Press. Archived from the original on November 13, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  7. ^ "2. Proposed Changes to Lincoln High School Area Schools, School Year 2009-2010." Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  8. ^ "usnews". Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  9. ^ School profile lausd.k12.ca.us
  10. ^ "Challenge Index". Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
  11. ^ "Abraham Lincoln Senior High". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
  12. ^ "Abraham Lincoln Senior High". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  13. ^ "Abraham Lincoln Senior High". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  14. ^ . Archived from the original on June 4, 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2007.
  15. ^ 2006-07 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) October 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  16. ^ 2007-08 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  17. ^ 2008-09 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) February 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  18. ^ 2009-10 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  19. ^ 2010-11 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  20. ^ 2012-13 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR)[permanent dead link]. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  21. ^ "Justices - supreme_court". June 17, 2016. from the original on June 17, 2016.

External links edit

  • Abraham Lincoln High School website
  • Abraham Lincoln High School profile provided by the Los Angeles Unified School District

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Abraham Lincoln High School usually referred to simply as Lincoln High School is a secondary school located in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles California United States Located in the East Los Angeles area community surrounded by El Sereno Chinatown Boyle Heights and Cypress Park The school is named after Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States and was one of the first public high schools established in California It is one of the District 5 high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District the second largest school district in the US Abraham Lincoln High SchoolAddress3501 N BroadwayLos Angeles California 90031United StatesInformationTypePublicOpened1878School districtLos Angeles Unified School DistrictPrincipalRose Anne RuizTeaching staff58 51 FTE 1 Grades9th 12thEnrollment1 066 2018 19 1 Student to teacher ratio18 22 1 Color s Black and orange Athletics conferenceNorthern LeagueCIF Los Angeles City SectionMascotTigerTeam nameLincoln TigersWebsiteOfficial websiteLincoln students are drawn from Chinatown and other areas Cypress Park residents may attend either Lincoln or Franklin High School Contents 1 History 2 Demographics 3 Academics 3 1 Overview 3 2 Magnet 3 3 Science Bowl 3 4 Academic Decathlon 3 5 Speech and Debate 3 6 Academic Performance Index API 4 Feeder Patterns 5 Notable alumni 6 Media 7 References 8 External linksHistory edit nbsp Lincoln High School in the 1920s The early history of Lincoln High School is unusually complicated because over the years it has served all three of the typical grade configurations elementary school middle school and high school What eventually became Lincoln High School was originally established in 1878 as Avenue 21 Grammar School By 1913 the Avenue 21 school had become an intermediate school and its student population had grown to the point that a new campus was needed That year the intermediate school moved to the present Lincoln High School site and the curriculum expanded to include the senior high school grades This marks the true beginning of Lincoln High Pending the construction of a new school the current site on the former mansion property of Charles Woolwine the Avenue 21 intermediate school moved its location to the hillside site now the current physical education and track field where students studied under the trees 2 In the early 1970s students from all six upper grades attended the school together 3 In 1878 the plant was extended across Lincoln Park Avenue which is now the current site In 1881 the school added a gymnasium In 1924 a science building was added The present school was built extensively in the 1940s under President Franklin D Roosevelt s Works Progress Administration reform Much of the construction and renovations occurred after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake which damaged the gymnasium the auditorium the music building the library and the English building 4 Jim Tunney Stadium home to Lincoln s football and track teams was built during the reconstruction of Lincoln High School It was in the Los Angeles City High School District until 1961 when it merged into LAUSD 5 Beginning in the latter part of the 1960s Lincoln High School became a focal point for the emerging Chicano civil rights movement that was fueled by student activism which called for a more culturally sensitive educational curriculum and access to college preparatory courses for Mexican American students Encouraged by Sal Castro who championed equal educational opportunity as a Lincoln High faculty member students at Lincoln organized a mass walk out in protest of sub standard facilities vocational program tracking for Chicano youth and discriminatory practices which excluded them from advanced college prep courses 6 In March 1968 Lincoln High students led the first wave of what became the largest student strike in the history of public education in US The Blow out was joined by students from at least three other area high schools among them Garfield Roosevelt Lincoln Belmont and Wilson In 2009 the opening of the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Centers relieved Lincoln 7 In 2015 Lincoln High School s baseball team won the CIF Los Angeles City Section Division II baseball championship defeating Cesar Chavez High School of San Fernando by a score of 3 0 in a game played at Dodger Stadium It was the school s second baseball championship and the first one since 1935 Demographics editDemographics of student body Ethnic Breakdown 2021 2020 8 2019Native Americans 0 0 3 0 4 Hispanic and Latino American 73 75 73 Black 2 2 1 Asian American 24 21 23 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0 0 0 White 2 1 1 Multiracial Americans 0 1 1 0 5 Female 48 49 47 Male 52 51 53 Lincoln is mainly made up of a large Hispanic and Asian student body though there is a smaller African American and White student population In 2019 Lincoln serves around 1 005 students in grades nine to twelve with a student teacher ratio of 19 1 54 full time teachers The racial ethnic enrollment breaks down as the following as of the student class of 2008 2009 9 American Indian 0 3 Asian 30 8 Filipino 0 3 Pacific Islander 0 1 Black 0 9 Hispanic 80 1 White 0 5 Academics editOverview edit In 2008 Lincoln was ranked as the 900th best high school in the US in the Challenge Index 10 US News 2021 Rankings 55 in Los Angeles Unified School District High Schools 249 in Los Angeles metropolitan area high schools 387 in Magnet high schools 587 in California high schools 3 841 in national rankings 11 US News 2020 Rankings 94 in Los Angeles Unified School District High Schools 234 in Los Angeles metropolitan area high schools 374 in Magnet high schools 565 in California high schools 3 810 in national rankings 12 US News 2019 Rankings 241 in Los Angeles metropolitan area high schools 350 in Magnet high schools 566 in California high schools 3 926 in national rankings 13 Magnet edit Lincoln High School s Magnet program 14 was established in 1999 The Magnet program has a maximum of 226 students ranging from grade levels 9 to 12 The program offers opportunities for students to participate in courses and activities with an emphasis on science mathematics and technology Science Bowl edit Lincoln has a Science Bowl team that has been running for fifteen years Lincoln has two teams with 5 students in each team Competing students must have a knowledge base in astronomy biology chemistry mathematics physics and general science Science Bowl uses a buzzer system in which students must buzz in and wait to be recognized by a moderator before proceeding to answer a question Lincoln has consistently scored in the top five in the Regional Science Bowl competition Academic Decathlon edit Lincoln maintains an Academic Decathlon program for its students Competing students in the program are placed into one of three teams based on their skill level Varsity Scholastic and Honors The program covers language amp literature economics art music mathematics social science and science In addition students are required to write essays participate in interviews give speeches and take part in a Super Quiz which focuses on a selected subject determined by the United States Academic Decathlon each year Speech and Debate edit Formed in 2008 Lincoln is one of the 15 schools that are a part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate League LAMDL LAMDL is one of the networks of Urban Debate Leagues that promotes debate for many urban high schools In 2009 the Los Angeles Urban Debate League as it was previously known merged with a USC s Neighborhood Debate League creating LAMDL Lincoln has a highly successful policy debate team competing and winning major tournaments both locally and nationally Lincoln has won some of the most prestigious tournaments in California including the California State Invitational held at the University of California Berkeley as well as the Pepperdine Invitational Debates and clearing into eliminations in tournaments like the University of Southern California s David Damus Trojan Championships In 2009 Lincoln won four of the six local tournaments winning City Championships and in 2010 won five of the six local tournaments In 2009 Lincoln debated at the Chase Urban Debate Nationals held in Chicago and returned to the Nationals again in 2010 clearing into eliminations and again in 2011 placing fifth overall Academic Performance Index API edit API for Lincoln High School School 2007 15 2008 16 2009 17 2010 18 2011 19 2012 2013 20 Abraham Lincoln High School 594 609 588 616 643 761 738Feeder Patterns editA majority of the students come from Florence Nightingale Middle School El Sereno Middle School Notable alumni editThis article s list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia s verifiability policy Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations January 2018 Rodolfo Acosta actor Gregory Ain architect Ethel Percy Andrus principal 1917 1944 founder AARP first female high school principal in California Sam Balter 1909 1998 basketball player Eddie Cano Afro Cuban jazz and Latin jazz pianist Gaylord Carter organist Bobby Castillo former Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins pitcher Sal Castro activist faculty Eldridge Cleaver writer Soul on Ice John Conte actor John Doucette actor Sue Kunitomi Embrey Japanese American teacher activist and Manzanar intern Moctesuma Esparza director producer Jackie Fields Jacob Finkelstein 1908 1987 boxer who twice won the World Welterweight Championship Jennifer Love Hewitt actress singer John Huston director actor Fidel LaBarba boxer sportswriter gold medalist 1924 Olympics Paris Jose Limon choreographer Carlos R Moreno California Supreme Court Justice Cl of 1966 21 Sadao Munemori Medal of Honor recipient Jeanette Nolan actress Robert Preston actor Ref Sanchez actor and fashion photographer Jim Tunney L A Unified School District administrator NFL referee Kenny Washington NFL professional American football player Robert Young actorMedia editAbraham Lincoln High School is used prominently as both itself and the fictional Clayton College in the 1927 Buster Keaton film College and briefly appears at the end of the movie Walkout a real life video in the end credits References edit a b c Abraham Lincoln Senior High National Center for Education Statistics Retrieved November 12 2020 The first Lincoln High Archived from the original on December 31 2006 Retrieved March 18 2007 http dbase1 lapl org webpics calindex cards 007 0614084 073 jpg Abraham Lincoln High School Alumni Association Retrieved May 9 2016 New User Registration PDF Los Angeles City School District Los Angeles Unified School District Archived from the original on February 7 1998 Retrieved October 27 2020 Blowout UNC Press Archived from the original on November 13 2016 Retrieved November 12 2016 2 Proposed Changes to Lincoln High School Area Schools School Year 2009 2010 Los Angeles Unified School District Retrieved March 17 2010 usnews Retrieved December 16 2020 School profile lausd k12 ca us Challenge Index Washington Post Archived from the original on January 29 2013 Retrieved May 6 2007 Abraham Lincoln Senior High U S News amp World Report Retrieved September 27 2021 Abraham Lincoln Senior High U S News amp World Report Retrieved December 16 2020 Abraham Lincoln Senior High U S News amp World Report Retrieved August 11 2019 Magnet Leadership Elections Archived from the original on June 4 2007 Retrieved February 12 2007 2006 07 Accountability Progress Reporting APR Archived October 8 2017 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 25 2009 2007 08 Accountability Progress Reporting APR Archived March 3 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 25 2009 2008 09 Accountability Progress Reporting APR Archived February 18 2017 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 8 2012 2009 10 Accountability Progress Reporting APR Archived March 4 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 8 2012 2010 11 Accountability Progress Reporting APR Archived March 4 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 8 2012 2012 13 Accountability Progress Reporting APR permanent dead link Retrieved February 27 2017 Justices supreme court June 17 2016 Archived from the original on June 17 2016 External links editAbraham Lincoln High School website Early history of Abraham Lincoln High School Abraham Lincoln High School profile provided by the Los Angeles Unified School District 34 04 30 N 118 12 04 W 34 075 N 118 201 W 34 075 118 201 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Abraham Lincoln High School Los Angeles California amp oldid 1167881545, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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