| Verdugo Hills High School | |
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| Verdugo Hills High School
Victory with Honor
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| 10625 Plainview Avenue Tujunga, Los Angeles, California |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1937 |
| School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
| President | Nancy Hernandez |
| Dean | Darren Fitzgerald |
| Principal | Edward Trimis |
| Head of school | Edward Trimis |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,112 (2006-2007) |
| Number of students | approximately 2,200 |
| Color(s) | Black and Red |
| Mascot | Don |
| Newspaper | La Yuca Online |
| School Television Broadcast | Eye on Verdugo (IOV) |
| Website | Official website |
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.
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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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.[1]
Verdugo Hills is the only school in LAUSD to host the Copernican Block Schedule. Implemented in the fall of 1998, VHHS has experienced widespread success with this schedule. 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.
Verdugo's student body recently elected Elizabeth NP. Phan on May 25, 2010. Replacing two term President Thomas J. Macauley. Student Government at Verdugo is currently in the process of launching the largest alumni fundraising effort in the school's 73 year history. Along with annual events held all over the Sunland/Tujunga area, Student Government at Verdugo is reaching beyond the community limits, meeting such activists as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Politicians such as California Gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner.
Verdugo's current Student body President is Nancy Hernandez. She was elected on April 13, 2011. Replacing one term President Elizabeth NP. Phan. The Student Government at Verdugo is currently going into their Diamond Year celebrating their 75th Year of being a School in the Sunland/Tujunga community. Along with holding events around that community. Staying true and continuing great events.
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 [3]
Television movies [4]
Television series [5]
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