MONTEBELLO HIGH SCHOOL

'Montebello High School' is one of four high schools in the Montebello Unified School District, located at 2100 West Cleveland Ave., Montebello, California, 90640. Students attending this school live in the Montebello-East Los Angeles area. Montebello High School has an enrollment of approximately 3400 students and a staff of 121 teachers. The ethnic make up of the students of Montebello High School is as follows: 94% Hispanic, 4.7% White, .03% American Indian, .73% Asian, .06% Pacific Islander, .22% Filipino, and .54% African American.
Montebello High School is located in the San Gabriel Valley approximately 8 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles. Its famous alumni include tennis champion Jack Kramer, baseball great Bobby Knopp, basketball player and coach Jerry Pimm, Nobel Prize winner Bruce Merrifield, actors Edward James Olmos and Jack Larson, and California Democrat Party Chairman Art Torres.

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Flag incident

Alumni

Notes

Flag incident

On March 27 2006, about 1000 students from the neighboring El Rancho Unified and Whittier Union High school districts marched from Pico Rivera to Montebello High School during a walkout and protest over immigration reform. One of the trespassing students lowered and then flipped Montebello High's American flag, putting a Mexican flag on top, which resulted in a frenzy when pictures of the incident were published on the Internet and local newspapers. The unnamed perpetrator was later determined to be a student from El Rancho High School, about four miles east of Montebello. According to El Rancho Unified School District officials, the teen was punished in accordance with the California Education Code.^[1][2] The photograph of the inverted flags, from the ''Whittier Daily News'', continued to circulate via e-mail more than one year later, typically mentioning Montebello High School without specifying that neighboring districts' students were responsible for the incident.^[3]

Alumni

★ Edward James Olmos

★ Jack Kramer

★ Jack Larson

★ Arthur Torres

★ Darlene Hard

★ John Madrid

★ Jose Gonzalez

★ Bruce Merrifield

Notes

1. "Welcome to Calexico," Urban Legends Reference Pages. Retrieved July 9, 2007.
2. "Teen punished for U.S. flag flip: Students flew American banner upside-down – below Mexican," WorldNet Daily News, April 1, 2006. Retrieved July 9, 2007.
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