Gahr High School

Richard Gahr High School
Address
11111 E. Artesia Boulevard Cerritos, California 90703
Information
School type	Public high school
Founded	1965
School district	ABC Unified School District
Superintendent	Mary Sieu
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,900
Language	English
Colour(s)	Blue      White      Gold
Athletics conference	San Gabriel Valley League
Mascot	Gladiator
Team name	Gladiators
Website	Gahr High School web site

Richard Gahr High School, often simply known as Gahr High School, is a public high school in Cerritos, California, serving grades 9-12. Gahr High is part of the ABC Unified School District.

Though it has a comparatively small student population at around 1,900, Gahr is known as a very ethnically diverse campus, (located in "the most ethnically diverse place in America", according to a California State University, Northridge study, as Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Filipino Americans and African Americans together constitute a large majority at more than 70%. The school's graduation rate is also 16% higher than the county average.

Gahr High School was completed in 1965 as the first high school in both the newly unified ABC Unified School District, and the recently incorporated City of Dairy Valley (the city would be renamed to its current state two years later). Indeed, the originally proposed name for the school was "Dairy Valley High School". The school was officially named after Richard Gahr, who had served as the school district's Superintendent. During the 1970s, as the student population in Cerritos rapidly grew, Cerritos High School was created for district expansion, and during its construction the latter used part of the Gahr campus.

In 2006 Gahr High School was invited to apply to be a California Distinguished School, and early in 2007, it was readily inspected. Now it has "California Distinguished School" to add to its resume.

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