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).
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.
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.
From the 1930s to the 1970s the Jordan site was used for melting of scrap iron and scrap metal storage.
Prior to the 2005 opening of South East High School, Jordan served portions of the City of South Gate.
King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science opened in bungalows of Jordan in 1982. In 1999 it moved to a standalone campus in Willowbrook.
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.
Earl Battey, former professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins)
George Brown, long jumper
Buddy Collette, jazz saxophonist
Michael Douglass, All-Pro linebacker for the Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers; owner of Alpine Fitness in San Diego
Florence Griffith-Joyner, multiple-Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the 100 meters and 200 meters
John L Hanks attended Jordon High School as John Portley (educator), founding faculty member of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law http://www.cardozo.yu.edu
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)
Brenda Holloway, Motown recording artist
Leon Hooten, former professional baseball player (Oakland Athletics)
Charles Mingus, jazz bassist
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
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".
Hayes Edward Sanders, Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medalist; first African American to win Olympic heavyweight title
Paul Scranton, professional basketball player
Glenn T. Seaborg, discoverer of Plutonium and 1951 Nobel Prize–winning chemist
Sylvester, disco singer and drag queen, graduated in 1969.
Raymond Brantley, first black lacrosse player in LAUSD and only player to have his number 6 retired.
James Washington, NFL player
The Whispers (singers) Walter and Wallace Scott of
Britt Woodman, jazz trombonist, Class of 1938
Kevin Young, 1992 Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles
Le-Lo Lang, NFL Corner Back, Denver Broncos
Manny Montana, actor
