Santee Educational Complex
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Santee Educational Complex is a secondary school located in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Santee, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Santee is located in the South Los Angeles area. The school was located ina former Santee Dairy facility. The campus building opened on July 5, 2005. The school was temporairly named South Los Angeles New Area High School #1 before being christened "Santee Educational Complex" [1].
Santee has "small learning communities." When the school opened, the school contained the following communities:
- Public Service & Social Justice
- Business, Technology & Finance
- Travel, Tourism & Culinary Arts
- Arts and Entertainment
- Fashion Design & Visual Arts
In 2006, another "small learning community", Construction & Architecture, appeared [2].
Santee Educational Complex has a year-round, three track schedule. The school uses block scheduling.
[edit] History
In 2005, soil samples taken at the former Santee Dairy facility found high levels of carcinogens in soil used as foundation fill for a high school then under construction. A small controversy brewed on the matter, with some neighborhood activists and LAUSD critics claiming a repeat of the Belmont Learning Center fiasco. State scientists determined that the contaminated soil was sufficiently deep to pose no threat to students on the site, and Santee Educational Complex opened in July 2005 [3]. The school had around 25 unfilled positions at the time of its opening.
The school received the nickname "Santee Dairy High" because of the former dairy facility.
When the school opened, it relieved Manual Arts High School and Jefferson High School [4].
