David Starr Jordan High School
| David Starr Jordan High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| 2265 East 103rd Street. Los Angeles, California 90002 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1923 |
| Locale | 33°56′39.04″N 118°13′51.45″W / 33.9441778°N 118.2309583°WCoordinates: 33°56′39.04″N 118°13′51.45″W / 33.9441778°N 118.2309583°W |
| Principal | Carlos Montes |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,300 |
| Color(s) | Royal Blue, White |
| Athletics conference | Eastern League CIF Los Angeles City Section |
| Mascot | Bulldogs |
| Nickname | Jordan |
| Website | Official website |
David Starr Jordan High School is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles. The school was named for David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University (from 1891–1913). The school colors are Royal blue and white and the mascot is a bulldog.
Some sections of Florence-Graham, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County, are jointly zoned to Jordan and John C. Fremont High School. The Gonzaque Village, Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs, and Nickerson Gardens public housing developments of Los Angeles are zoned to Jordan.
Jordan is one of a few high schools to have three, unrelated, Olympic gold medalists come from the same high school in Hayes Edward Sanders, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Kevin Young. Sanders, in 1952, became the first African American to win the Olympic Heavyweight Boxing Championship while both Griffith-Joyner and Young still hold the current World Record in their respective events.
From the 1930s to the 1970s the Jordan site was used for melting of scrap iron and scrap metal storage.
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