James Monroe High School (California)
| James Monroe High School | |
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| Address | |
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9229 Haskell Ave. North Hills, Los Angeles, California, California United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1958 |
| School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
| Dean | John Cosentino (10–12), Mike Cranshaw (9) |
| Principal | Christopher Rosas |
| Enrollment | 2,477 (2014-15) |
| Color(s) |
Red White Blue |
| Athletics conference | East Valley League CIF Los Angeles City Section |
| Mascot | Viking |
| Website | Official website |
James Monroe High School (JMHS) is a high school in the North Hills area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school is located at 9229 Haskell Avenue, North Hills, CA 91343. It is home to Small Learning Communities (SLCs) and two magnet schools. The school's mascot is the Viking.
Monroe High opened in the fall of 1958.
The school selected the team name Vikings after a movie of the same name starring Tony Curtis. The Multipurpose room was named Odin's Hall. The Annual was named Valhalla.
The opening of Panorama High School in October 2006 relieved overcrowding at James Monroe High School.
In 2010, James Monroe was ranked 420 in Newsweek.
The Monroe School for Advanced Studies formed in 2001 and belongs to the larger SLC of Engineering & Design.
Monroe High School offers two Magnet programs for students. Their programs are made to prepare people who want to pursue careers in law, police science, criminology, forensics, and related fields.
The James Monroe High School team has won ten state championships since 1995, including three in Expository speaking, one in Oratorical Interpretation, one in Original Oratory, one in Dramatic Interpretation, three in Original Prose and Poetry, and one in Thematic Interpretation. There are over 100 more speakers who qualified to the annual State Champion Tournament and ranked in the top 18. The team began in 1995, when Chante Griffin, a former Miss Teen of America, was Monroe's sole qualifier to the California State Finals. In 2016, coach Kathy Graber was inducted into the California High School Speech Association Hall of Fame. Ms. Graber is also the co-President of the Tri-County Forensic League.
Because of the Law and Government Magnet, Monroe has its own courtroom. The school has a mock trial team, which competes in the Los Angeles County Mock Trial Competition run by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and goes against about 80 schools each year. Before 2008, in just the preceding six years, it had been in the semifinals four times, and two times in the quarterfinals. In the 2008 season, it made it to finals once again but lost to Gabrielino High. . In 2009 season, Monroe once again took 2nd place, losing by .76% to Louisville High School, private all-girls school. The following years in 2010 and 2011, Monroe succeeded in advancing to the semi-finals, placing it in the top 4 schools of the county while being the only LAUSD school to achieve that place. In 2012, Monroe succeeded in reaching to finals and beat Crescenta Valley High at the LA County Mock Trial Finals, and will advance to states. This is the first time since 1993 that an LAUSD school achieved this.(last was Marshall High)
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