Newport Harbor High School

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Newport Harbor High School
Chad D RobinsHallPanorama 1.jpg
type of school High school
founding 1930
place Orange County
State California
Country United States
Coordinates 33 ° 37 '22 "  N , 117 ° 54' 48"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 37 '22 "  N , 117 ° 54' 48"  W.
carrier Newport-Mesa Unified School District
student 2483 (2009/10)
management Michael Vossen
Website www.newportharborhigh.com

The Newport Harbor High School is a public high school in Newport Beach , Orange County in the US state of California . It belongs to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District . In the 2009/2010 school year it was attended by 2,483 students.

history

After World War I , the Huntington Beach , Costa Mesa , Newport Beach and Laguna Beach harbor area did not have many students of the appropriate age to attend high school. They were split between high schools in Huntington Beach and Santa Ana . In 1929, after five years of efforts, approval was given to build a new high school on the Costa Mesa border area.

About two months after Black Thursday , 29 December 1929 bought the Irvine Company for 15,000 US dollars (USD) a piece of land with an area of about 81,000 m 2 . The foundation stone was laid on June 14, 1930. As a result of the stock market crash , there were many workers working at low wages, which resulted in the actual school building costing a mere $ 410,000.

The doors of Newport Harbor High School first opened on September 22, 1930, but the school officially opened on January 9, 1931. In the first year the school was attended by 207 students who were taught by 12 teachers. The original construction of the school consisted of the main building, a tower, a wood workshop and a hut that served as a caretaker's apartment. The high tower was built at the time so that people could be made aware of the new school in the region. In the early 1940s, a new math class building was built, named Dodge Hall . It was named after Donald Dodge , who campaigned for the newly created School District to be separated from that in Santa Ana. In 1948 a sports hall was built on the school grounds . In the same year eight barracks of the US Army were converted into classrooms. As the number of students increased, another sports hall was built in 1949 for use by the female students. An open swimming pool was also created on Irvine Avenue . In 1955 another building was built which was used for art classes. Due to the proximity to the harbor that's mascot school Tommy Tar , individualized depiction of Popeye the sailor.

Between 2005 and 2006 generated Newport-Mesa Unified School District by pension funds 282 million USD, of which $ 36 million was invested in the Newport Harbor High School to the school building a 6,500 m 2 to extend large wings.

Well-known graduates

literature

  • Pamela Lee Gray: Newport Beach (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing, Charleston (SC) 2003, ISBN 978-0-738-52093-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newport Harbor High School. LocalSchoolDirectory.com, accessed September 17, 2012 .
  2. ^ A b c d History of the Newport Harbor High School. Newport Harbor High School, accessed September 17, 2012 .
  3. ^ School Notes. Public School Review, accessed September 18, 2012 .
  4. ^ Advisory Committee: Ad Hoc Historic Preservation. (PDF, 5,449 KB) City of Newport Beach, pp. 44–45 , accessed on September 19, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Gray. Newport Beach. 2003, p. 33.
  6. ↑ Orange Coast Magazine: Untold Story: California Modern. 1991, p. 45
  7. ^ NHHS Athletics. (No longer available online.) Newport Harbor High School, archived from the original August 26, 2012 ; Retrieved September 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / supportnhhs.com
  8. ↑ Kimberly Edds: School district has to $ 282 million to use. ange County Register Communications, May 18, 2006, accessed September 18, 2012 .