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Los Alamitos High School

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    • 591 Cerritos Avenue, Los Alamitos, California, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers: (562) 799-4780
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• History & Memorable Moments

In its very first year, classes were held at Pine Junior High School (now McAuliffe Middle), and only sophomores attended. The following year saw the school move into its new campus whose buildings were specifically designed for Los Al's unique flexible scheduling program (and the addition of juniors, followed by seniors the next year). This version of flexible scheduling used then-current computer technology to generate daily class schedules based on each instructor's lesson plans. Students would report each morning to their "scheduling class" to receive their daily schedule - broken into a series of "modules". Each teacher would select the needed number of fifteen minute modules to allow for that day's instruction, whether it be a test, a lecture, a lab, etc. In their scheduling class, students could rearrange or fill open modules from the "May" schedule, a listing of available classes. This allowed serious students to make the best use of their schedule to attend classes in a sequence that made more sense for that day.

Los Al's unique flexible scheduling was replaced with a traditional school schedule in 1977 after it was discovered that less disciplined students were abusing the system. For those more dedicated students who leveraged the school's unique scheduling to their advantage, Los Al produced an extraordinary number of early graduates, who went on to succeed in the best universities. Beginning in Fall 1987, the Orange County High School of the Arts was resident on its campus, but its success and growth led it to move to a bigger campus in Santa Ana in 2000. When the third wave ska craze hit Orange County in the early 1990s, Los Alamitos High School was an incubator for some of these bands. Los Alamitos High School produced such ska bands as: Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, The Scholars, The Nuckle Brothers, and the ill fated Free Jeff. Los AL is also known for their fierce rivalry with Esperanza High School.

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