John C. Fremont High School | |
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John C. Fremont High School
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7676 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles, California, 90003, United States |
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Coordinates | 33°58′10.7″N 118°16′4.1″W / 33.969639°N 118.267806°WCoordinates: 33°58′10.7″N 118°16′4.1″W / 33.969639°N 118.267806°W |
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Type | Public |
Motto | Find a path, or make one! |
Established | 1924 |
School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
Principal | Pedro Avalos |
Faculty | 211 |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 5,083 |
Color(s) |
Cardinal Gray |
Nickname | Pathfinders, #Mont |
Team name | Pathfinders |
Newspaper | The Pathfinder |
Website | www |
John C. Fremont Senior High School is a Title 1 co-educational public high school located in South, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Fremont serves several Los Angeles neighborhoods and the unincorporated community of Florence-Graham; some sections of Florence-Graham are jointly zoned to Fremont and David Starr Jordan High School. The Avalon Gardens public housing complex is zoned to Fremont.
The school first opened in 1924 and is named after John C. Frémont. The school is in LAUSD's District 7 and runs on a traditional school system. There are 5,083 students enrolled (2,914 more than the state average), with 11% of the student body African-American and 89% Latino. The name of the school newspaper is "The Pathfinder".
Fremont opened in 1924. It will reduce its number of students when South Region High School 2 opens in 2011.
John C. Fremont High School was one of the first schools in the United States to have been divided into a "small school" or "academy". The purpose of the small school is to allow personalization of instruction, due to the concern that students may become academically lost in a large, or augmented, campus. Each of the thirteen Small Learning Communities (SLCs), averaging 400 students each, is given a section of the school campus, and most of the classes take place in that section. For example, one of the small schools might be assigned classes on the first and second floors of the main building. The students of this small school would have the majority of classes in those two floors.
As of July 6, 2010, when the school undergoes reconstitution, the thirteen SLCs will be dissolved and in their place will be six Academies of 500 students each on the three Tracks, consisting of grades 10, 11, and 12. The 9th graders on each Track will have their own Center, with 600 students each.