North Hollywood - Los Angeles Unified School
District (LAUSD) Board
Member Jon Lauritzen joined with students,
parents and community
members today to participate in a ribbon
cutting ceremony for East
Valley High School. East Valley High is one
of 13 new LAUSD schools
that has opened in the San Fernando Valley
since the beginning of the
new school construction program, and its
completion marks further
progress in the District's mission to end
overcrowding and improve the
learning environment District-wide.
"We are pleased to offer this beautiful new
facility with a
state of the art auditorium and an
instructional dance floor," said
Board Member Lauritzen. "We now have a
strong physical facility to
support our great academic program, anchored
by our small learning
communities."
East Valley High School provides 1,593
two-semester seats
and 59 new classrooms, relieving both Grant
and North Hollywood high
schools of overcrowded conditions. The
campus opened to 9th and 10th
graders for the 2006-07 school year;11th
grade will be incorporated in
September 2007, with12th grade to join the
following school year.
"East Valley High School exemplifies how our
secondary
schools are working to meet the needs of a
global economy," said
Superintendent David L. Brewer III. "The
dynamic environment students,
teachers and staff are creating on this
beautiful new campus
demonstrates that we are a District on the
move, and are supplying our
students with the resources they need to be
college and career ready."
East Valley High students will choose from
one of three
themed academies to join before commencing
their 11th grade year:
Performing Arts; Media Communications; or
Business, Finance and
Marketing. East Valley High is a Talent
Development High School, a
comprehensive reform model for large high
schools created by Johns
Hopkins' Center for Research on the
Education of Students Placed at
Risk, of which Small Learning Communities
are a part.
"In cutting the ribbon on yet another brand
new school, we
are reminded of the substantial progress
being made in delivering the
schools that have been promised," said LAUSD
Chief Facilities Executive
Guy Mehula. "As we look forward to the start
of Phase II of this
project, we are also reminded that we can
not afford to slow our
efforts and that our job is not yet done."
Situated on a 12.4 acre site, the East
Valley High School
campus consists of two four- story buildings
which house classrooms; a
library; a food service area with outdoor
student dining; an
auditorium; and a two-story gymnasium with a
weight room and parent
center. Phase II of the project, which
includes athletic fields and an
outdoor pool, is scheduled to commence later
this year.
The LAUSD opened 13 new schools in 2006,
eliminating
involuntary busing for all elementary school
students and returning 98
schools to a 180-day, full-year calendar.
East Valley High School is
part of the LAUSD's $19.3 billion school
construction program that will
build more than 145 schools by 2012. The
program is designed to
provide a neighborhood school on a
traditional calendar for every
student eliminate involuntary busing and
create small learning
communities in every high school. To date,
LAUSD has completed 65 new schools and 47
additions, providing more than 68,000 new
classroom seats for students throughout the
District.
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