Mayfair High School

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Mayfair High School

Address
6000 N. Woodruff Avenue Lakewood, California, 90713, United States
Website
Mayfair High School web site
Information
School board	Bellflower Unified School District
Superintendent	Rick Kemppainen
Principal	Lisa Azevedo
Vice principal	Millie Haft, Mark Kailiponi, Michael Lundgren, Richard Pearce
School type	Middle/Secondary
Grades	7-12
Language	English
Mascot	Mayfair Monsoon
Team name	Monsoons
Enrollment	3,543 (2004)

Mayfair Middle/High School is located on 6000 North Woodruff Avenue, Lakewood, California, United States, as part of the Bellflower Unified School District (BUSD). The middle school was added in 1982, although the high school is decades older. Mayfair is a combination middle school and high school, having students from grades seven through twelve.

As of 2004, Mayfair had 112 regular educations teachers and 142 classrooms serving 3,500 students from the communities of Lakewood, Bellflower, and Cerritos. Average class size is 32.1 students.

Mayfair was recognized as a California Distinguished School, the highest award a California high school can obtain. In 2001, Mayfair received the Golden Bell award from the California School Board Association for their Academy of Animation and Digital Art Program.

The school mascot is the "Mayfair Monsoon" — illustrated as a tornado. The school colors are blue and white. The monthly school newspaper is the Windjammer. Mayfair sports teams have won several state championships and regularly participate in playoffs, including its win in the Division IX CIF championships.^[1]. Mayfair's varsity boys basketball squad won the CIF division IIA title in 1999.^[2]

1 Statistics
2 Notable alumni
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Statistics

The Student population racial makeup (2004) was African-American 17.7%, American Indian or Alaska Native 0.3, Asian 5.0, Filipino 4.8, Hispanic or Latino 31.2, Pacific Islander 1.4, White (Not Hispanic) 37.1 and Multiple or No Response 2.5.

**California Standardized Testing Rankings for 2004**
Subject	School	District	State
English-Language Arts	33	31	36
Mathematics	22	30	34
Science	26	19	25
History-Social Science	33	25	29

**Expenditure per student for 2004**
School	District	State
$6,178	$6,882	$6,822

[edit] Notable alumni

Josh Childress, NBA basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks. At Mayfair, Childress was selected as a McDonald's High School All-American.^[3]^[4]
Jay Gibbons, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles.^[5]
Geri Reischl, actress best known for appearing as what was called "Fake Jan" in the The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.^[6]
Synyster Gates of the rock band Avenged Sevenfold^[7] and owner of Syn Gates Clothing.
Steve Ostling, SCRA sprint car driver.
Matt McCraw , starting point guard for the Airforce Division I NCAA College Basketball.
Alterraun Verner, cornerback for the UCLA Bruins Division I College Football. Named 2006 Co-Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10.