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Type
  
Public

President
  
Ayah Hosn

Principal
  
Arturo Barcenas, 2016

Mascot
  
Don

Motto
  
Victory with Honor

Established
  
1937

Dean
  
Darren Fitzgerald

Head of school
  
Edward Trimis

Phone
  
+1 818-951-5400

Verdugo Hills High School

Address
  
10625 Plainview Ave, Tujunga, CA 91042, USA

District
  
Los Angeles Unified School District

Similar
  
Crescenta Valley High School, Mount Gleason Middle Sc, Van Nuys High School, Francis Polytechnic Senior Hi, San Fernando Senior Hi

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Verdugo Hills High School (VHHS) is a public school located in the Tujunga community of Los Angeles, California, United States within the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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The school serves students from several areas of Los Angeles, including Sunland, Tujunga, Lake View Terrace, and portions of North Hollywood, Sun Valley, and Shadow Hills.

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History

The school officially opened for classes for the first time on September 13, 1937, with 437 students enrolled in grades 7 through 11. Verdugo Hills High School was built on the site of a lemon orchard next to the original Plainview Avenue Elementary School.

The school district was going to name the new school Calvin Coolidge High School, but Congressman John Steven McGroarty and others lobbied successfully to have the name changed to reflect the "green Verdugo hills" to the south which the campus overlooks.

The 2009 opening of Sun Valley High School relieved Verdugo Hills of increasingly crowded conditions.

Schedule

Verdugo Hills is the only school in LAUSD to host the Copernican Block Schedule. VHHS has experienced widespread success with this schedule since it was implemented in the fall of 1998. Most students have 3 classes per 10 weeks terms, each class lasting for 90 minutes. Semester courses are now 10 weeks in length and previous year-long courses are now 20 weeks. Athletics, band, and other activities have been moved to an optional 4th period. This gives an opportunity for a student to accomplish more before graduation. In addition, students taking the optional fourth period every semester can graduate a semester or more early. Students not opting to take a fourth period are released at 1:12 every day, allowing more time to complete homework or to work an after-school job.

Notable alumni

  • A Martinez, Actor
  • Corey Allen, Actor / Director
  • Dick Smothers, Entertainer
  • Howard P. McKeon, US Congressman
  • Jan Brewer, Governor of Arizona
  • Jaye P. Morgan, Singer, Actress, Entertainer
  • John Ingle, Actor
  • A. Michael Baldwin, Actor
  • Robert C. Nakasone, Former CEO of Toy's 'R' Us
  • Steven A. White, Admiral, US Navy
  • Tom Smothers, Entertainer
  • Robert Michael "Mike" Stofik, Minor League Baseball Player
  • Ivan Dorschner, Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010 5th Big Placer, Model and Actor
  • Rick Cruise, baseball player, in the Manitoba baseball Hall of Fame
  • Charlie Kendall, American football player
  • Evan Bittencourt Chasing Life, Nocturnal Animals, Ideal Home Actor
  • David G. Simpson, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy

    • Filming location

    In proximity to the Hollywood movie industry, the school website claims that VHHS has been "the location of choice for more movies, television shows and commercials than any other school in the world".

    The school was a filming location in the following films, television movies, television series:

    Films

  • Corvette Summer (1978)
  • Almost Summer (1978)
  • Christine (1983)
  • Better Off Dead (1985)
  • River's Edge (1987)
  • Heathers (1989)
  • The Craft (1995)
  • One Eight Seven (1997) - As John Quincy Adams High School
  • Boys and Girls (2000)
  • Clockstoppers (February 2001)
  • Not Another Teen Movie (March 2001)
  • Cursed (April 2003)
  • Hercules in 3-D (November 2005)

    • Television movies

  • Scandal In A Small Town (1988)
  • I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
  • The Tonya Harding Story
  • The Nutty Professor
  • The Brady Bunch Reunion
  • The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)
  • Other Mothers (1993)
  • The Great Mom Swap (1995)
  • Skipper
  • Killing Mr. Griffin (1997)
  • Safety Patrol (1998)
  • Gotta Kick It Up! (June 2001)
  • 10 things I hate about you(2009) (Remake Movie)

    • Television series

  • Quantum Leap
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
  • My So-Called Life (1994)
  • TV-101 (1988–89)
  • Dangerous Minds (1996–97)
  • Moloney (1997)
  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1998)
  • Felicity (1998)
  • Hyperion Bay (1998)
  • Rescue 77 (1999)
  • Court TV (1999)
  • Once and Again (1999)
  • Get Real (1999)
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2001)
  • Lifetime Television (November 2001)
  • MTV (December 2001)
  • Miracles (2002, December)
  • American Dreams (October and December 2002, January and March 2003, July 2004)
  • Summerland (October 2004)
  • Monk (May 2005)
  • American Idol (November 2006)
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000- )
  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008- )
  • Sons of Anarchy (2008)
  • The Glee Project (2011)
  • The Mindy Project (2012)
  • The Bachelor (2016)

    • References

    Verdugo Hills High School Wikipedia
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