Bell High School (Bell, California)
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Bell High School is a public high school in Bell, California
, United States
.
The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of District 6 of the Los Angeles Unified School District
.
Bell Highs motto is "Honor lies in honest toil", its mascot is the eagle, and the school colors are Purple and Gold. They are rivals with the Huntington Park Spartans.
The school serves several municipalities. The school serves the cities of Bell, Cudahy
, and Maywood
, and it serves portions of Huntington Park
and portions of Vernon
. Some portions of Huntington Park and Maywood are jointly zoned to both Bell High School and Huntington Park High School
.
Located in the Southeastern section of Los Angeles County, Bell High School is a multi-track Year Round comprehensive high school (grades 9-12) serving 5,375 (2006–2007) students from the tri-communities of Bell, Cudahy, and Maywood. One of six high schools in Local District 6, and one of forty-nine comprehensive high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Bell High School opened its doors in 1925 for 800 students. It has faithfully served the community through dramatic historical, social and technological periods of transition, and now faces even newer challenges of educating its increasing student population on the 1925 original school ground acreage.
In 2005, South East High School
in South Gate
opened, relieving Bell. In 2006, Maywood Academy High School
opened. The project page describes the school, a non-zoned magnet school, to have relieved Bell.
, Southeast
, Jordan, James A. Garfield
and Roosevelt High School
's. Bell's basketball team has won two 3-A city championships in Bell's 85 years of existence, the first coming in 1997 and the second in 2007.
Bell, California
Bell is a city in Los Angeles County, California. Its population was 35,477 at the 2010 census, down from 36,664 in the 2000 census. Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is a suburb of the city of Los Angeles...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of District 6 of the Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest public school system in California. It is the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population...
.
Bell Highs motto is "Honor lies in honest toil", its mascot is the eagle, and the school colors are Purple and Gold. They are rivals with the Huntington Park Spartans.
The school serves several municipalities. The school serves the cities of Bell, Cudahy
Cudahy, California
Cudahy is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California. In terms of area, Cudahy is the second smallest city in Los Angeles County, after Hawaiian Gardens. with one of the highest population densities of any incorporated city in the United States...
, and Maywood
Maywood, California
Maywood is a small city in southeast Los Angeles County, California. At , Maywood is the third-smallest incorporated city in Los Angeles County....
, and it serves portions of Huntington Park
Huntington Park, California
Huntington Park is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 58,114, down from 61,348 at the 2000 census.- History :...
and portions of Vernon
Vernon, California
Vernon is a city five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, California. The population was 112 at the 2010 United States Census, the smallest of any incorporated city in the state....
. Some portions of Huntington Park and Maywood are jointly zoned to both Bell High School and Huntington Park High School
Huntington Park High School
Huntington Park High School is a public high school in Huntington Park, California, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.-History:...
.
History
Bell High School began as the Bell Unit of the Huntington Park Union High School, and opened with only two classes, freshmen and sophomores. There were only 14 teachers and 325 students. Mr. Claude L. Reeves, a graduate from USC, was the first principal of Bell High School and he remained until 1939.Located in the Southeastern section of Los Angeles County, Bell High School is a multi-track Year Round comprehensive high school (grades 9-12) serving 5,375 (2006–2007) students from the tri-communities of Bell, Cudahy, and Maywood. One of six high schools in Local District 6, and one of forty-nine comprehensive high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Bell High School opened its doors in 1925 for 800 students. It has faithfully served the community through dramatic historical, social and technological periods of transition, and now faces even newer challenges of educating its increasing student population on the 1925 original school ground acreage.
Mission Statement
The mission of Bell High School is to educate all students to the highest degree of their abilities socially, academically, and technologically so that they become contributing members of society.In 2005, South East High School
South East High School (South Gate, California)
Ms. Criss Ms. Corral Ms. George Address 2720 Tweedy BoulevardSouth Gate, California 90280 Enrollment 2,800 Athletic Conference Eastern LeagueCIF Los Angeles City Section Colors SilverBlue Nickname Jaguars...
in South Gate
South Gate, California
South Gate is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The sixteenth largest city in Los Angeles County, it encompasses . South Gate is located just southeast of downtown Los Angeles It is part of the Gateway Cities region of southeastern Los Angeles County...
opened, relieving Bell. In 2006, Maywood Academy High School
Maywood Academy High School
Maywood Academy High School is an alternative high school of the Los Angeles Unified School District, located in Maywood, CA.All residents are zoned to Bell High School in Bell and Huntington Park High School in Huntington Park may apply to Maywood Academy High School; Maywood Academy, which...
opened. The project page describes the school, a non-zoned magnet school, to have relieved Bell.
Demographics
As of the school year 2008-09, there were a total of 5,512 students attending the high school.- 98.1% HispanicHispanicHispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
(5,425) - 1.1% BlackBlackBlack is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...
(48) - 0.2% WhiteWhiteWhite is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be...
(10) - 0.3% Native AmericanIndigenous peoples of the AmericasThe indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
(15) - 0.3% AsianAsian peopleAsian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :...
(14)
Sports
-Bell High School usually competes with neighboring schools Huntington Park, South GateSouth Gate High School
South Gate High School is located on Firestone Boulevard, South Gate, California, United States. The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District...
, Southeast
South East High School (South Gate, California)
Ms. Criss Ms. Corral Ms. George Address 2720 Tweedy BoulevardSouth Gate, California 90280 Enrollment 2,800 Athletic Conference Eastern LeagueCIF Los Angeles City Section Colors SilverBlue Nickname Jaguars...
, Jordan, James A. Garfield
Garfield High School (Los Angeles County, California)
James A. Garfield High School is a public, year-round high school founded in 1925 in East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California. The school was made famous by the film Stand and Deliver about a teacher named Jaime Escalante...
and Roosevelt High School
Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles)
See also Roosevelt High School for schools of the same nameTheodore Roosevelt High School is a high school located in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, California named for the 26th president of the United States....
's. Bell's basketball team has won two 3-A city championships in Bell's 85 years of existence, the first coming in 1997 and the second in 2007.
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
- Soccer
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
- VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- United States Academic DecathlonUnited States Academic DecathlonThe United States Academic Decathlon is an annual high school academic competition organized by the non-profit United States Academic Decathlon Association. The competition consists of seven multiple choice tests, two performance events, and an essay...
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- Cross-CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
/Track & Field - CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
- Marching bandMarching bandMarching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
- Short FlagsPep flagsPep Flags, also known as flaggies, short flags, small flags, or twirl flags is the performing art of twirling one or two flag as part of a choreographed routine. In recent years, some schools have implemented a third and even fourth flag in routines. This performing art is mainly prominent in...
- Color GuardColor guardIn the military of the United States and other militaries, the color guard carries the National Color and other flags appropriate to its position in the chain of command. Typically these include a unit flag and a departmental flag...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
Interact Club
- Academic Decathlon
- Anime Club
- Bible Club
- Cooking and Baking Club
- Future Teachers of America
- Green Club
- Key Club
- Latinas Guiding Latinas
- Sports Club
- Drama Club
- Spanish Club
- Youth Action Club
- Gay Straight Alliance
- Scrapbook Club
- Music 101
- Comic book club
- Yearbook
SLCs
- MTCA - High school students go to one of the elementary schools in the area, and tutor the children for an hour everyday.
- Humanitas - Students receive a balanced education in liberal studies. Students develop skills in critical thinking and various forms of discourse including research, debate, and interpersonal communication. Upon graduating, students are prepared for success in post-secondary education, in a variety of professions, and making a positive impact on society.
- Scitech - Science and Technology
- 9th Grade House - Focused on freshman
The Pride of the Southeast
The Bell High Marching Eagles consists of the Marching Band, Color Guard, Short Flags and Shields groups at Bell High School. They are known as "The Pride of the Southeast" of the southeast Los Angeles Area due to their excellent performances on the field during football games, field tournaments and competitions and award-winning performances at parades.Notable alumni
- Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, cartoonist and hot-rod icon
- John FerraroJohn FerraroJohn Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
, U.S. politician - Marvin BenardMarvin BenardMarvin Larry Benard [buh-NARD] is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who batted and threw left-handed....
, athlete, MLB - Bobby MagallanesBobby MagallanesRobert Magallanes was the manager of the Birmingham Barons, the Chicago White Sox Double-A minor league affiliate. The Barons are a part of the Southern League. Magallanes is a native of Downey, California. He graduated from Bell High School in Bell, California and attended Cerritos College in...
, athlete, MLB - Keith Birmingham athlete, photojournalist
- Stan KentonStan KentonStanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
, jazz musician, - Tom ArayaTom ArayaTom Araya is a Chilean musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer...
, singer/bassist, Slayer - Mike Henry, NFL linebacker, actor (M*A*S*H)
- B-RealB-RealLouis Freese, better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor...
, Rapper, "Cypress Hill" - Sen DogSen DogSen Dog is a Cuban-American rapper, and member of rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace.Sen Dog has been developing his own solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill...
, Rapper, "Cypress Hill" - Mellow Man AceMellow Man AceUlpiano Sergio Reyes , better known as Mellow Man Ace, is an American rapper. He is best known for his hit single "Mentirosa"...
, Rapper, "Cypress Hill" - Miguel "Meegs" Rascon, Guitarist, "Coal Chamber"
- Tony CamposTony CamposTony Campos is a Mexican American musician. He is the bass guitarist for the heavy metal band Soulfly and former bass guitarist of industrial metal band Static-X and frontman/bassist for Asesino. Campos was the final bassist for Ministry, which retired in 2008, though he rejoined when the band...
, Bassist, "Static-X" - Percy Martinez, Opera Singer,
- Rick Cortez, Guitarist, "Sadistic Intent"
- Bay Cortez, Singer/Bassist, "Sadistic Intent"
- William J. Shippy, "WWII Veteran", "Engineer"