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Washington Preparatory High School
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- 10860 South Denker Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- 323-418-4000
- 323-754-3517
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George Washington Preparatory High School is a secondary school in the Westmont section of unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States that is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It was founded in 1926. The school has a Los Angeles address but is not located in the city limits of Los Angeles. The mascot is the General, an obvious reference to the school's namesake George Washington. The school colors are red and blue.[1]
The school serves many areas in South Los Angeles and unincorporated areas around South Los Angeles, including West Athens and Westmont. In addition it serves the LAUSD section of Hawthorne. It was the location for a 1987 TV movie entitled Hard Lessons depicting Denzel Washington as the new principal set on cleaning the high school and ridding it of gang violence, drugs and restoring educational values to the school. The current principal is Dr. Gail Greer. Two famous former principals are Dr. George McKenna, whom Denzel Washington portrayed in the movie Hard Lessons; and LAUSD Board Member Marguerite LaMotte.[1]
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