Alexander Hamilton High School, also known as just Hamilton High School is a public

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in the

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neighborhood within the Westside of

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, United States. It is in the

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. It was established in 1931.

History

Alexander Hamilton High School opened in Fall 1931, with Thomas Hughes Elson as the principal. It was designed by architects

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and Frederick C. Ashley. The three-story administration building held the administration, library, and science departments and 24 classrooms. Other buildings were a manual training building, another for physical training, and a fourth for the cafeteria and "domestic science." The capacity would be 1000, with plans permitting increasing to 2500. Building costs were $125,000 for the land, $400,000 for the structure, and $200,000 for equipment. Built in the Northern Italian Renaissance style, multicolored and patterned brickwork, elaborate cast stone decoration, and a bell tower clad in verdigris copper distinguish the building. Austin and Ashley later designed Hamilton's $100,000 six-room auditorium, Waidelich Hall which opened on April 20, 1937. The hall was named after Arthur George Waidelich, the second principal at the school. On February 21, 1989, the auditorium was renamed the

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Concert Hall. A brass plaque made by the industrial arts department to commemorate the 1937 dedication was removed during renovation. Today, there are Brown Hall (which houses administrative offices, the library, and classrooms and is named in honor of Walker Brown, Principal (1940–1956), the lab building, the tech building, the humanities building, the music building, and other structures. There is a large theater hall, named

Concert Hall, a cafeteria, two gym buildings (boys' and girls'), and a workshop building. On the west part of the campus is

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Distribution Station 20 and Cheviot Hills High School, a

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. The athletic fields include Al Michaels Field (a football and track stadium named for sportscaster

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, Hamilton's famous alum) and a community garden, the Hami Garden. The Hami Garden was a joint project funded by the South Robertson Neighborhood Council and the Hami High Environmental Club in 2009. It is maintained by community members and Hamilton High School students. Alexander Hamilton High School was in the

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until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD. In 1932, its attendance boundaries extended as far north as

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. In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton were rezoned to Venice High School.

Demographics

As of 2019–2020, there were 2,586 students enrolled at Hamilton High School. Enrollment by race/ethnicity: * American Indians/

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: 8 * Asian: 128 *

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: 5 *

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: 671 *

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: 1,334 *

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: 398 * Multiracial: 42 Enrollment by gender: *

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: 1,390

Extracurricular activities

Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Composer

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taught music and directed the chorus at Hamilton during the 1950s.

Notable people

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* Susan B. Nelson, activist *

, founder of

Westwood One Westwood One, Inc. is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming. The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1976. The co ...

* Ben Rich, former director of the

Lockheed Skunk Works Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, highly classified research and developme ...

* Lilly Samuels Tartikoff, ballet dancer and philanthropist

Faculty

Barry Smolin Barry Smolin (born April 20, 1961), also known as Mr. Smolin, is an American radio host, teacher, composer, and writer. He last taught at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, and was a longtime radio host on L.A. area public radio stat ...

, singer-songwriter, radio host, and author; taught English *

, composer, arranger; taught music

References

External links

Hamilton High home page
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Educational institutions established in 1931 1931 establishments in California