Glendale High School (Glendale, California)
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1440 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205 Glendale, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°08′45″N 118°13′59″W / 34.14589°N 118.23292°WCoordinates: 34°08′45″N 118°13′59″W / 34.14589°N 118.23292°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | September 1901 |
| School district | Glendale Unified School District |
| Principal | Benjamin Wolf |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,100 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red and Black |
| Athletics conference | CIF Southern Section Pacific League |
| Mascot | Dynamiters/Nitros |
| Rival | Hoover High School - Glendale, CA |
| Yearbook | The Stylus |
| Website | www.glendalehigh.com |
 Glendale Union High School in 1902, known then as the "Cheesebox" because of its distinctive yellow color. |
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Glendale High School is a high school located at 1440 Broadway Avenue in Glendale, California, USA. The school is the Flagship School of the Glendale Unified School District.
Glendale High School was founded as Glendale Union High School in 1901 by the residents of the villages of Glendale, La Crescenta, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Ivanhoe, Tropico and West Glendale.
The first classes were held at the Glendale Hotel. The first principal was Mr. Llewellyn Evans and the school had of two teachers and 29 students. The next year, a new school building was built at the corner of what is today Brand Boulevard and Broadway Avenue.
George Moyse was appointed principal and continued in his role for 35 years until 1937. The school continued to grow rapidly and the school moved several times, in 1907 to Harvard Street and in 1914 to Maryland Street.
The school continued to grow, as enrollment reached 800 in 1920 and 1,050 in 1921. It was decided then to move the Grade 10, 11 and 12 classes to a new campus at the corner of the present-day Broadway Avenue and Verdugo Road (Grade 9 students remained at the Maryland Street campus, and were later integrated into area Middle Schools). The school has remained in this location (1440 East Broadway, at the southeast corner of Verdugo) since 1924.
The Class of 1960 was Glendale's largest, with 903 graduates. The following year Crescenta Valley High School opened, taking a sizable portion of Glendale's students.
The school suffered extensive damage during spring break on March 22, 1964, when a student who was concerned about his grades set fire to the room in which he thought the grade information was stored. The fire quickly spread throughout the administration building and to adjacent buildings on the campus. The decision was made to reconstruct the campus, leaving the swimming pool, baseball field, tennis courts and football stadium as the only remnants of the old campus.
In 1966, Captain Max Schumacher, an aerial traffic reporter for local radio station KMPC, landed his helicopter on the football field during a school assembly and spoke about traffic safety. He was later killed in a crash with a police helicopter near Dodger Stadium.
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