Alhambra High School (Alhambra, California)
| Alhambra High School | |
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| Address | |
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101 South 2nd Street Alhambra, California, Los Angeles County 91801 United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°05′34″N 118°07′42″W / 34.092837°N 118.128412°WCoordinates: 34°05′34″N 118°07′42″W / 34.092837°N 118.128412°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Opened | 1898 |
| School district | Alhambra Unified School District |
| Principal | Duane Russell |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 2,800 |
| Color(s) | Blue and gold |
| Athletics conference |
CIF Southern Section Almont League |
| Mascot | The Moor |
| Team name | Moors |
| Rival | Mark Keppel High School |
| Newspaper | The Moor Weekly |
| Yearbook | The Alhambran |
| Website | School website |
Alhambra High School is a public high school in Alhambra, California. The school was established in 1898 and is in the Alhambra High School District. It administers one of the most extensive high school and adult education programs in California, offering hundreds of academic, cultural, and recreational courses, day and evening, many located on the Alhambra High School grounds. In 2005, it was given a California Distinguished Schools award.
The school is located on Second Street, across the street from City Hall and the Police Department, bounded by Second Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Fifth Street, and Main Street. The campus is divided into three parts, by Third and Fourth Streets.
Around 1884, Alhambra citizens saw the need for their own school. Two elections failed, because of the resistance of the San Gabriel School District. Alhambrans then petitioned for a partitioning of the district and agreed to placate the San Gabriel District by giving San Gabriel a school at Vega and Main. Old Mill Creek became the dividing line on the east, with a deviation that gave San Gabriel the school. Thus began the rivalry the schools hold with each other until this day.
When the petition was granted, Sebastian Shaw, the principal, and the Alhambra students set up classes in an old redwood cabin on property on South Chapel near Beacon Street. A fire hydrant across the furrowed field on Garfield Avenue provided drinking water for the school. When the roof caught fire one day, the children used their dinner pails to bring water to douse the blaze. A $10,000 bond election was passed to build a school and a site was purchased for $175 at Garfield and Alhambra Road. There a four-room, two-story frame building was constructed.
In September 1887, the school opened with 27 elementary and high school students. Mrs. E. Jones was the teacher and principal. The cornerstone for Alhambra High School was laid in April of that year. Alhambra High School opened in 1898, between Second and Third Streets, south of Main Street.
Enrollment at AHS is 3080 students, In this ethnically-mixed school district, Alhambra High School is one of the three comprehensive high schools. Curriculum offerings encompass Reading for remedial instruction, to Advanced Placement courses in six departments, including English composition, Calculus, Environmental science, Physics, American Government/Civics, United States History, World History, Art History, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, and Psychology
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