Jordan High School (Los Angeles, California)
| David Starr Jordan High School | |
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| Location | |
| 2265 East 103rd Street. Los Angeles, California 90002 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1923 |
| Locale | 33°56′39.04″N 118°13′51.45″W / 33.9441778°N 118.2309583°WCoordinates: 33°56′39.04″N 118°13′51.45″W / 33.9441778°N 118.2309583°W |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,300 |
| Color(s) | Royal Blue, White |
| Athletics conference | Eastern League CIF Los Angeles City Section |
| Mascot | Bulldog |
| Nickname | Jordan |
| Website | Official website |
David Starr Jordan High School is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles. The school was named for David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University (from 1891–1913). Alma Mater of Former Delaware State University Quarterback Gilbert Rivera. Rivera led the Bulldogs to an upset, come from behind win against South East High School in 2011. He is known to his peers as "the quarterback that beat South East".
Some sections of Florence-Graham, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County, are jointly zoned to Jordan and John C. Fremont High School. The Gonzaque Village, Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs, and Nickerson Gardens public housing developments of Los Angeles are zoned to Jordan.
The school colors are Royal blue and white and the mascot is a bulldog.
Prior to the 2005 opening of South East High School, Jordan served portions of the City of South Gate.
Jordan is one of a few high schools to have three, unrelated, Olympic gold medalists come from the same high school in Hayes Edward Sanders, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Kevin Young. Sanders, in 1952, became the first African American to win the Olympic Heavyweight Boxing Championship while both Griffith-Joyner and Young still hold the current World Record in their respective events.
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