Jordan High School (Los Angeles, California)
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.
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 Griffith-Joyner still holds the current World Record in her respective event.
It was in the Los Angeles City High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD.
With public input from the local community, the Los Angeles Unified School District school board unanimously voted in October 2020 to officially shorten the name of the school to "Jordan High School" and remove all references to David Starr Jordan.
Modernization
From early 2015 through late 2016 David Starr Jordan High School was temporarily closed for modernizations and new construction at the school. Students moved to a different school during renovations.
Prior to the 2005 opening of South East High School, Jordan served portions of the City of South Gate.
In March 2017 LAUSD sued the Los Angeles Housing Authority, stating that contaminants seeped onto the Jordan site from the neighboring Jordan Downs housing project.
Notable alumni
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- Dunia Elvir, television journalist, producer, motivational speaker and autism advocate.
- Earl Battey, former professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins)
- George Brown, long jumper
- Buddy Collette, jazz saxophonist
- Ray Vasquez, Singer, Trombonist, and actor
- Michael Douglass, All-Pro linebacker for the Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers; owner of Alpine Fitness and M.D. Fitness in San Diego. 2003 Packers Hall of Fame inductee.
- Joey Fatts, rapper
- Florence Griffith-Joyner, multiple-Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the 100 meters and 200 meters
- Art Harris, former professional basketball player
- Aaron Holbert, former professional baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds) and current manager of the Mississippi Braves
- Ray Holbert, former professional baseball player (San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Royals)
- Bobby Darwin, former professional baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs)
- Brenda Holloway, Motown recording artist
- Leon Hooten, former professional baseball player (Oakland Athletics)
- Gail Hopkins, former professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers)
- Le-Lo Lang, NFL cornerback
- Charles Mingus, jazz bassist
- Manny Montana, actor
- Roger E. Mosley, actor
- Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Red Lobster)
- Wally Parks, founder of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), Class of 1931
- Fletcher Joseph Perry, NFL Hall of Fame running back
- Ron Riley, former professional basketball player
- Hayes Edward Sanders, Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medalist; first African American to win Olympic heavyweight title
- Walter "Scotty" Scott, member of R&B group, The Whispers
- Paul Scranton, professional basketball player
- Franklin Session, professional basketball player
- Glenn T. Seaborg, discoverer of Plutonium and 1951 Nobel Prize–winning chemist
- Sylvester, singer, graduated in 1969
- James Washington, NFL safety (Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins) and two-time Super Bowl champion
- Britt Woodman, jazz trombonist, Class of 1938
- Kevin Young, 1992 Olympic gold medalist, former world record holder in 400 meter hurdles
References
- ^ "Jordan Senior High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
- ^ "Los Angeles City School District". Los Angeles Unified School District. Archived from the original on 1998-02-07. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ^ Blume, Howard (2020-10-08). "Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ Tat, Linh (October 9, 2020). "LAUSD removes eugenicist from name of L.A.'s Jordan High: Renaming of campus buildings a growing trend amid racial justice movement". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "Proposed Changes to South East HS Area Schools" (). Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
- ^ "South Gate city, California Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
- ^ Kohli, Sonali (2017-03-03). "L.A. Unified sues city housing authority over cost of lead, arsenic cleanup at Watts high school". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ^ "Track and Field Record 1949 Season" (PDF). Helms Athletic Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ^ "Joe Perry". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^ Nobel biography
- ^ Gamson, Joshua (2005). The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco. New York City: Henry Holt and Co. pp. 31. ISBN 978-0-8050-7250-1.
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