Pasadena Unified School District - John Muir High School (Pasadena, California), Pasadena High School (Pasadena, California) (Paperback)

Chapters: John Muir High School (Pasadena, California), Pasadena High School (Pasadena, California), Marshall Fundamental Secondary School, Maranatha High School, San Rafael Elementary School, Burbank Elementary School (Unincorporated Los Angeles County, California), Madison Elementary School (Pasadena, California). Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Muir High School (Pasadena, California) - The school's buildings were originally a part of John Muir Junior College (not to be confused with John Muir College in San Diego, California). The junior college merged with Pasadena City College, and converted to a two-year high school in 1955. (The senior students of the first graduating high-school class in 1955 were freshmen of the previous two-year junior college in the prior year.) It later become a full four-year high school, located on Lincoln Avenue, named after Lincoln, Nebraska. Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, attended this high school after leaving Eliot Jr. High School. Prior to 1964, mostly White and Asian students from the communities of La Canada Flintridge, California joined the historically black neighborhood of North Pasadena and the racially mixed community of Altadena, and enrollment was nearly 3,000 students. In 1965, La Canada Flintridge, California built its own school system and removed their students. Shortly after that, the Pasadena City School District created Blair High School, siphoning off another large portion of the school's population. Approximately 1300 students attend each year. The student body is 47% black, 42% Hispanic, 9% non-Hispanic White, and 2% "other," including 1.1% Asian. The school maintained an average class size of 27 students and a pupil-to-teacher rati...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2821899