Belmont High School (Los Angeles, California)

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Belmont Senior High School

School type	Public
Location	Downtown Los Angeles
Enrollment	5,213
Campus	Urban
School colors	green, black
Nicknames	Sentinels
Website	Official website

Belmont Senior High School is a public high school located at 1575 West 2nd Street in Downtown Los Angeles.

The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Belmont High School is the largest public school in the city of Los Angeles and the largest school in California, due to the density of the Westlake district, which it serves. The enrollment was supposed to be split by the yet-to-be-finished Belmont Learning Center. The school colors are green and black and the teams are called the Sentinels.

1 History
2 Neighborhoods served by Belmont
3 Feeder patterns
4 Notable alumni
5 External links
6 See Also
7 See Also

[edit] History

Belmont opened in 1923.

In the 1990s and 2000s, LAUSD tried to devise plans to relieve Belmont of many of its students [1].

In 2006, the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex opened and relieved Belmont [2].

Two high schools, Central Los Angeles Area High School 9 [3] [4] and Central Los Angeles High School 11 (Belmont Learning Center) [5], will open in 2008 and relieve Belmont. Central Los Angeles High School 12 will open in 2009 [6] and relieve Belmont.

There are plans to reconfigure the existing Belmont High School into a 6-12 school by 2010 [7].

[edit] Neighborhoods served by Belmont

Much of the school-age population of areas served by Belmont, such as sections of the Pico-Union and Westlake areas, must be bused to schools in the San Fernando Valley, owing to delays in the construction of the Belmont Learning Center (just west of the Harbor Freeway at 1st and Beaudry) and overcrowding at the area's other schools.

Other areas served by Belmont include Angelino Heights, Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo.

[edit] Feeder patterns

Virgil Middle School, Hollenbeck Middle School, Nightingale Middle School, King Middle School, and Berendo Middle School feed into Belmont.

Year	Student Enrollment
1993-1994	4,458
1994-1995	4,723
1995-1996	4,750
1996-1997	4,969
1997-1998	5,160
1998-1999	5,296
1999-2000	5,305
2000-2001	5,264
2001-2002	5,447
2002-2003	5,410
2003-2004	5,299
2004-2005	5,213

Belmont has a well-known, longstanding rivalry with Marshall High School.

[edit] Notable alumni

 Veronica Porche Ali

[edit] External links

[edit] See Also

	v • d • e Los Angeles Unified School District District 4
7-12 schools	Eagle Rock High School
High schools	Belmont \| Contreras LC \| Fairfax \| Franklin \| Hollywood \| Marshall
Middle schools	Bancroft \| Le Conte \| Virgil