Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles)

Abraham Lincoln High School
Address
3501 N. Broadway Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles 90031 United States
Information
Type	Public
Opened	1878
School district	Los Angeles Unified School District
Principal	Jose F. Torres
Grades	9th-12th
Color(s)	Black and Orange
Athletics conference	Northern League CIF Los Angeles City Section
Mascot	Tigers
Team name	Lincoln Tigers
Rival	Wilson High School
Website	Official website

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. It is 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 is 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 nation.

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

The early history of Lincoln High School is unusually complicated because it was founded 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. Through the early 1970s, students from all six upper grades attended the school together.

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