Crenshaw High School
| Crenshaw High School | |
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| Location | |
| 5010 11th Ave Crenshaw Los Angeles, California 90043 |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1968 |
| School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
| Principal | L. Remon Corley (2013-present) |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,466 |
| Number of students | 6789 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Blue & Gold |
| Athletics conference | Coliseum League CIF Los Angeles City Section |
| Mascot | Cougars |
| Website | Official website |
Crenshaw High School is a four-year public secondary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, located on 11th Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
The school first opened in 1968 and currently enrolls around 1,400 students.
Crenshaw High School opened on January 1968. The school drew students from several affluent neighborhoods, including Baldwin Hills and View Park-Windsor Hills, as well as a few other neighborhoods. The school's student body began with students from wealthier communities. Most of the students who attended Crenshaw High lived in or near this neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Crenshaw High's rival is Susan Miller Dorsey High School. Several areas, including the wealthy unincorporated Los Angeles County community of View Park-Windsor Hills, are zoned to Crenshaw; some sections of View Park-Windsor Hills are jointly zoned to Crenshaw and Westchester High School. On August 15, 2005, Crenshaw High School lost its accreditation due to administrative fraud. The accreditation was restored on February 1, 2006.
The school is renowned for its outstanding Men's basketball program, coached for over thirty years by Legendary Head Coach Willie E. West Jr., who retired in 2007 and was succeeded by Ed Waters. The Cougars play home games at the Willie E. West Jr. Pavillion Gymnasium. The Crenshaw Cougars have won numerous L.A. City and California State basketball titles. Crenshaw also won the International High School Basketball Tournament in Ahus, Skane County, Sweden in the 1985 basketball season. Crenshaw was featured in the family television series Moesha, It is also used it's gym for the 2006 film Bring It On: All or Nothing starring Hayden Panettiere and Solange Knowles. In 2001, the book "And Still We Rise," written by Miles Corwin, chronicled the lives of twelve seniors in the Crenshaw High Gifted & Talented Magnet program in their quest to obtain an education—amidst formidable obstacles. The book received the PEN USA West for Creative Nonfiction Award and much critical praise. In 2004 Kirk Douglas and the Amateur Athletic Foundation (AAF) donated to Willie E. West Jr. Pavillion exterior and interior lights for the Crenshaw High School Basketball Team. The Crenshaw High School Varsity Football team won its first "Championship Division" Los Angeles City championship in 2005 defeating Woodland Hills Taft High School, However, a "AAA" Championship was won in 1992, defeating Chatsworth High School. Both Championship titles were under the leadership of Head Coach Robert Garrett.
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