Wilson High School (Los Angeles, California)
| Woodrow Wilson High School | |
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| 4500 Multnomah Street El Sereno, Los Angeles California 90032 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | "Once a Mule, Always a Mule" |
| Established | 1937 (first campus), 1970 (second campus) |
| School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
| Principal | Luis Lopez |
| Staff | 45 |
| Faculty | 135 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 1200 |
| Color(s) | Navy blue, Vegas gold and white |
| Athletics | Baseball, football, boys' and girls' soccer, softball, track & field, cross country, boys' and girls' basketball, cheer, drill team, boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' volleyball |
| Athletics conference | Northern League CIF Los Angeles City Section |
| Mascot | Mighty Mule (Seymour) |
| Rivals | Abraham Lincoln High School, Benjamin Franklin High School |
| Information | Architect: Paul Williams |
| Website | Official website |
Woodrow Wilson High School is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school in the Eastside region of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located in the community of El Sereno, atop the Ascot Hills at 4500 Multnomah Street.
The school serves the El Sereno and University Hills communities, and areas of City Terrace and Ramona Gardens.
Wilson High, with an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students, is one of six high schools under the direct supervision of LAUSD Local District 5. The school colors are navy blue, Vegas gold and white. The school's mascot is the "Mighty Mule", a mule also nicknamed "Seymour".
The original Wilson High School campus opened in 1937 on Eastern Avenue, in what is now the El Sereno Middle School campus. Classes were separated into winter and summer classes and took place in tents and old bungalows. The first gym was begun just before World War II and was completed in 1942. The first class to graduate was in the winter of 1940 with a class of 40 students.
The original site at one time had been a mule farm, which is one reason a mule was chosen as the school mascot. Other reasons cited were to honor the important pre-mechanization role 200,000+ mules played during World War I when Woodrow Wilson was president, and to acknowledge Woodrow Wilson's association with the Democratic Party whose symbol is the mule or donkey.
In 1970, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School moved to its current location on Multnomah Avenue. The new 37-acre campus and buildings were constructed between 1968-1969 and designed by the renowned African American architect Paul Revere Williams. It was an engineering challenge to excavate over one million cubic yards of earth to re-grade the hilltop and to use 3,500 tons of structural steel for the main buildings. The new Wilson High was the first LAUSD school to implement multi-floored buildings equipped with elevators and escalators to accommodate students with disabilities.
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