Wilson Classical High School
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| Official name | Woodrow Wilson Classical High School (since 2000) |
| Established | 1925 |
| Principals | Diane Brown, Lew Kerns |
| Activities Director | Erin Fekjar |
| Location | 4400 E Tenth Street Long Beach, California 90804 |
| Website | http://www3.lbusd.k12.ca.us:81/wilson/index.php |
| Enrollment | 4800 students |
| Mascot | Bruin |
| School Colors | Cardinal and Gold |
| District | Long Beach Unified School District |
Woodrow Wilson Classical High School is a secondary school in Long Beach, California, USA.
Wilson High School, in the Long Beach Unified School District, opened in 1925 as the second school in the city (after Long Beach Polytechnic High School). In 2005 Wilson High School was recognized as a California Distinguished School for the second time.
Recently, Wilson has suffered population problems. It was built to accommodate 3,300 students, but due to population growth in the city of Long Beach, and high demand for students to attend Wilson, the population had risen to more than 4,600 students.
Portions of Long Beach and Signal Hill are zoned to Wilson.
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[edit] Classical Diploma
Wilson offers a Classical Diploma, in which students take one (or more) classes in addition to the traditional course load of 6 course per term. The Classical Diploma requires:
- four (4) years of English
- four (4) years of mathematics
- four (4) years of foreign language
- four (4) years of science
- three (3) years of social sciences
- two (2) years of fine arts
- two (2) years of physical education
- three and a half (3.5) years of electives (normally a sport or interest classes)
The Classical Diploma is ideal for students entering the California State University system or the University of California system since the Classical requirements meet or exceed requirements for admission.
[edit] School uniforms
Wilson was the first public high school in the nation to require a school uniform (one other high school, and all primary schools in the Long Beach Unified School District require school uniforms). The uniform is khaki pants, skirts or shorts, with either white or burgundy collared shirts. [1]. The school colors are cardinal and gold, and the school mascot is the Bruin.
[edit] Sports
Although not widely known for its record in football, The Wilson Bruins are widely known for their outstanding water polo and swim teams (with high crossover between the two teams). Additionally, the Wilson golf, volleyball, women's track and field, and baseball teams have won statewide titles consistently.
[edit] Facilities
- Bruin Stadium: Football, Soccer and Athletics
- Basketball Arena: Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton and Gymnastics
- The Olympic Pool: Waterpolo, Swimming and Diving
- Skip Rowland Field: Baseball
- Other sports such as Softball and Golf are played in nearby Recreation Park. Tennis is played on the public basketball and tennis courts across the street from campus. Surfing is practiced at Seal Beach
[edit] Famous alumni
- Tony Azevedo, driver for the Men's US Olympic Water Polo team and Stanford University.
- Bad Azz, rapper.
- Jeff Burroughs, former Major League Baseball player, father of Sean Burroughs
- Sean Burroughs, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners in the MLB, son of Jeff Burroughs.
- Donald Coscarelli, motion picture director.
- Melvin Dumar (class 1962) was named in Howard Hughes Will.
- Paul Goydos, PGA Tour professional golfer, winner of 2007 Sony Open.
- Camryn Manheim, television and film actress.
- Pat McCormick, two-time Olympic platform and gold medal springboard diver (1952& 1956).
- Brad Nowell, lead singer of Sublime
- Maureen O’Toole, American water polo player and coach, won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
- Jeremy Strohmeyer, teenager who molested and murdered 7-year-old African-American girl Sherrice Iverson in a casino in Primm, Nevada, on May 25, 1997.
- Lauren Wenger, defender for USC women's water polo team, winner of 2006 Peter J. Cutino Award.
[edit] Notable faculty
- Klaus Barth, former Olympic medalist and Ironman competitor. He coached the boys' Soccer, Swimming and Waterpolo teams and also taught Physical Education. He was still coaching at the school until his death on October 2006 after six years of battling a brain tumor.[1]
- Jim “Arkie” Arquilla, former world class runner who participated in the United States Olympic Marathon Trials. He coached the Cross Country and Track and Field teams until his death on May 15, 2003 from melanoma cancer.
- Erin Gruwell, teacher who led the "Freedom Writers", a group of students who compiled a collection of diaries in the mid 1990s during an outbreak in interracial gang warfare. They were the subject of the 2007 film Freedom Writers.
