Birmingham High School
| Birmingham Community Charter High School | |
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| Address | |
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17000 Haynes Street Lake Balboa, Los Angeles, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°11′18″N 118°30′18″W / 34.18837°N 118.50507°WCoordinates: 34°11′18″N 118°30′18″W / 34.18837°N 118.50507°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1953 |
| School district | Los Angeles Unified School District (Internal charter) |
| Principal | Bill Parks |
| Faculty | 160 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,641 |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | West Valley League CIF Los Angeles City Section |
| Mascot | Patriots (formerly the Braves) |
| Website | www.birminghamcharter.com |
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Birmingham Community Charter High School (formerly Birmingham High School) is a public coeducational high school in the neighborhood/district of Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was founded in 1953 as a 7–12 grade combined high school, and became solely a senior high school in 1963. The school has a Van Nuys address and serves Lake Balboa, parts of Encino, and Amestoy Estates. The school is within the Los Angeles Unified School District but it is operated as an internal charter school.
The school opened in 1953, during the immediate post-World War II era. Originally it housed many White children from families newly settled in the San Fernando Valley. As of the 1960s the White families were middle class, and many of them had settled in the San Fernando Valley from the East Coast and the Midwest.
In 1994 Northrop Corp. gave the school a $1,000 ($1615.85 when adjusted for inflation) grant for mathematics and/or science curriculum and instruction, and the mathematics department used it to procure calculators and computer software.
By 2006 the student demographics became majority Latino and Hispanic.
By 2006 Marsha Coates, the principal, established "small learning communities" and a ninth grade academy to cater to incoming students.
On July 1, 2009, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted to allow the high school to become a charter school under the name Birmingham Community Charter High School. Prior to the approval, the school officials had fought over whether the school should become a charter for months. Some school officials had advocated creating an alternate school sponsored by the teacher's union on the same campus. About 66% of the faculty members of the school supported the charter change. After the charter was approved, 91 teachers continued to teach at Birmingham while 34 decided to leave to work at other LAUSD schools. This meant the Spanish, science, and history departments had a high level of turnover.
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