Granada Hills High School
| Granada Hills Charter High School | |
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| Address | |
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10535 Zelzah Ave Los Angeles, California 91344 United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°15′40″N 118°31′31″W / 34.2611°N 118.5254°WCoordinates: 34°15′40″N 118°31′31″W / 34.2611°N 118.5254°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public charter school |
| Motto | Home of the Highlanders |
| Established | 1960 |
| School district | LAUSD |
| Principal | Brian Bauer |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 4,200 |
| Color(s) |
Green, Black and White |
| Athletics conference | CIF Los Angeles |
| Mascot | The Highlander |
| Accreditation | WASC |
| Website | http://www.ghchs.com/ |
Granada Hills Charter High School (often called "GHCHS" or "Granada") is an independent public school consisting of over 4,200 students in grades 9–12, located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Granada Hills. It currently holds the record as the top comprehensive public senior high school in Los Angeles and the largest charter school in the nation. Granada also has a high Academic Performance Index (API) score of 878, which greatly exceeds the target API score of 800 for all schools in California. On April 12, 2011, Granada was named a 2011 California Distinguished School. On December 22, 2011, Granada became an International Baccalaureate World School. Since 2011, the school has won five National Academic Decathlon Championships.
Granada Hills High School is a comprehensive public high school, founded in 1960 as part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
In the 1970-1971 and 1971-72 school years, Granada Hills High had the largest student body of any high school in the United States. The school was relieved by the 1971 opening of Kennedy High School.
In 1994, the school opened a LAUSD magnet school with emphasis in math, science and technology in conjunction with the California State University at Northridge. In 2003, the school was awarded charter status which granted it fiscal and instructional autonomy in order to improve student academic performance.
In 2003 the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to allow the school to become a charter, making it the largest charter school in the United States. The school administration asked for a charter status since being directly operated the district limited its fundraising opportunities, and it also was against LAUSD funding cuts.
In mid 2013, Granada Hills Charter High School purchased the nearby Pinecrest Northridge Elementary School campus for $5.6M, using funds obtained from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Granada Hills Charter High School used this new land to create iGranada, a campus specializing in digital arts and sciences. This campus opened for the first time for the Fall 2015 school year.
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