John C. Fremont High School

John C. Fremont Senior High School

John C. Fremont High School
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Location
7676 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, California 90003
Coordinates 33°58′10.7″N 118°16′4.1″W / 33.969639°N 118.267806°W / 33.969639; -118.267806Coordinates: 33°58′10.7″N 118°16′4.1″W / 33.969639°N 118.267806°W / 33.969639; -118.267806
Information
Type Public
Established 1924
School district Los Angeles Unified School District
Principal Pedro Avalos
Faculty 211
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 5,083
Color(s) Cardinal and Gray
Mascot Pathfinder
Nickname Pathfinders
Newspaper Pathfinder
Website www.fremonths.org

John C. Fremont Senior High School is a Title 1 co-educational public high school located in South Central, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Fremont serves several Los Angeles neighborhoods and the unincorporated community of Florence-Graham; some sections of Florence-Graham are jointly zoned to Fremont and David Starr Jordan High School. The Avalon Gardens public housing project is zoned to Fremont.

The school first opened in 1924 and is named after John C. Frémont. The school is in LAUSD's District 7 and runs on a traditional school system. There are 5,083 students enrolled (2,914 more than the state average), with 11% of the student body African-American and 89% Latino. The name of the school newspaper is "The Pathfinder".

History

Fremont opened in 1924.[1] It will reduce its number of students when South Region High School 2 opens in 2011.[2]

Small school learning communities

John C. Fremont High School was one of the first schools in the United States to have been divided into a "small school" or "academy". The purpose of the small school is to allow personalization of instruction, due to the concern that students may become academically lost in a large, or augmented, campus. Each of the thirteen Small Learning Communities (SLCs), averaging 400 students each, is given a section of the school campus, and most of the classes take place in that section. For example, one of the small schools might be assigned classes on the first and second floors of the main building. The students of this small school would have the majority of classes in those two floors.

As of July 6, 2010, when the school undergoes reconstitution, the thirteen SLCs will be dissolved and in their place will be six Academies of 500 students each on the three Tracks, consisting of grades 10, 11, and 12. The 9th graders on each Track will have their own Center, with 600 students each.

In September 2013, only four SLCs remained, and the school switched over to a block schedule system instead of the track system. With the reduction of students due to the construction of the South Region schools, the school felt it would be able accommodate the students more efficiently with a block schedule.

Today however (as of September 2013), there exists only three SLCs which include, MESA, ESJ, and SGMA. All communities have students of all grade levels. Interestingly enough, there was once a 9th Grade Academy, a fourth SLC, but soon after the freshman class of 2016 did the school end that SLC.

MAGNET is considered to be the fourth current SLC, but the MAGNET community is a separate school in totality. John C. Fremont High School (school code: 8650) is the host campus for the John C. Fremont Magnet Math Science and Technology High School. (school code: 8651)

Reconstruction

The Los Angeles Unified School District will shut down the school, dismiss all of its staff, and reopen from scratch. The strategy, dubbed "reconstruction", will attempt to address the school's severe drop-out rate, which hovers at around 50%. The strategy is supported by the superintendent, Ramon C. Cortines, and the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. The move is opposed by the United Teachers Los Angeles and many Fremont teachers.[3]

Statistics

Fremont High School

Notable alumni

Congressman Henry Waxman

References

  1. "School Profile". Search.lausd.k12.ca.us. September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  2. "Project Details". Laschools.org. February 26, 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  3. "Cortines unveils plan to dismantle and rebuild Fremont High". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
  4. Silsbee, Kirk (March 2003). "Don Cherry interview (April 25, 1984)". Cadence Magazine. Redwood, NY: Cadnor Ltd. 29 (4): 5–11. ISSN 0162-6973.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 "Fremont (Los Angeles,CA) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  6. Dunlap, David W. (28 March 2013). "Photo That Was Hard to Get Published, but Even Harder to Get". Time. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
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