WILSON CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL

'Official name'	Woodrow Wilson Classical High School
'Established'	1925
'Principals'	Diane Brown, Lew Kerns
'Location'	4400 E Tenth Street Long Beach, California 90804
'Website'	http://www3.lbusd.k12.ca.us:81/wilson/index.php
'Enrollment'	4500 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 1926 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 and represented all of the high schools in the Long Beach Unified School District in earning the district the prestigious Broad Award for Urban Education.
The school serves sections of Long Beach, including Naples, and a small portion of the city of Signal Hill.
Wilson 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 has increased to more than 4,700 students recently. Due to its reputation as an academic school, over 1,200 students were on the waiting list for last year's freshman class.

Contents

Classical diploma

School uniforms

Sports

Famous alumni

Notable staff

External links

Classical diploma

Wilson is different from the other high schools in the Long Beach Unified School District because of its whole school Classical Program. Wilson offers a Classical Diploma, in which students take 60 credits more than the usual 220 credit Long Beach diploma requirement. 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 and three and a half (3.5) years of electives, which can include 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. This is a very good school if you want to go to any USC or CSU schools in California.

School uniforms

Wilson is one of the public high schools in the United States that requires a school uniform (one other high school, and all primary schools in the Long Beach Unified School District require school uniforms). The uniform consists of 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.

Sports

The Wilson Bruins are widely known for their outstanding water polo, swim, volleyball, golf, baseball and track teams. The 2007 Wilson high school varsity baseball team was named the best in the nation by Baseball America after winning the CIF-SS Division I Championship and finishing the season with a record of 32-3. Wilson has a long tradition of athletic excellence, and has produced a summer Olympian every Olympics since 1956.

Famous alumni

★ 'Tony Azevedo', driver for the Men's US Olympic Water Polo team and Stanford University.

★ 'Bad Azz', is a west coast rapper, most notably known for collaborating with Snoop Dogg and other ''DPGC'' members.

★ 'Jeff Burroughs', former MLB player and father of Sean Burroughs

★ 'Sean Burroughs', MLB player and son of Jeff Burroughs

★ 'Don Coscarelli' is a successful motion picture director, best known for the "Phantasm" series of horror films.

★ The "'Freedom Writers'", a group of students who compiled a collection of diaries in the mid 1990s, during an outbreak in interracial gang warfare, led by teacher Erin Gruwell. They were the subject of the 2007 film ''Freedom Writers'', starring Hilary Swank.

★ 'Paul Goydos', PGA golf pro. In 2007 he scored three birdies in the last four holes at the Sony Open in Hawaii to claim victory. Captured the 1996 Bay Hill Invitational. Second Masters appearance in 2007.

★ 'Bobby Grich', major league baseball player with the California Angels from 1976-1986.

★ 'Jessica Hardy', former world record holder in 100 meter breast stroke, member of 2005 National Team. Won gold medal at 2006 Pan Pacific Championships; Cal Berkeley swimmer who recently turned pro.

★ 'Camryn Manheim' is a television and film actress, best known as co-star of ''The Practice''.

★ 'Pat McCormick', a two-time Olympic platform and springboard gold medal diver (1952& 1956).

★ 'Bradley Nowell', lead singer of Sublime

★ 'Maureen O’Toole', American water polo player and coach, won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

★ 'Jeff Severson', former CSULB football star who had an eight-year NFL career with Washington, St. Louis, Houston and the Rams.

★ 'Jeremy Strohmeyer' is the Long Beach, California, 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, and 2006 winner of the top individual honor in collegiate water polo, the Peter J. Cutino Award.

★ 'Ryan Dent', drafted by the Boston Red Sox, class of 2007

★ 'Paul Grossi' former rally chair, crusader for women suffrage in Angola

Notable staff

★ 'Klaus Barth', former Olympic medalist and Ironman Triathlon competitor. He coached the boys' Soccer, Swimming and Waterpolo teams and taught Physical Education. He was still coaching until his death on October 2006 after six years of battling a brain tumor.

★ 'Erin Gruwell', former teacher in the late 1990's who published the journal writings of her students into a book called ''Freedom Writers, ''which also became the name of the student group and a 2007 movie starring Hilary Swank.

External links

★ School website

★ Wilson's LBUSD site