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Locke High School

{{short description|American public charter high school}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox school

|name =Alain LeRoy Locke College Preparatory Academy

|image =

|motto =Once a saint, Always a saint

|established =1967

|type = Public charter high school

|affiliation =

|district =Los Angeles Unified School District/Green Dot Public Schools

|grades =9-12

|president =

|principal =

|chairman =

|head of school =

|dean =

|faculty =

|staff = 76.01 (FTE)

|ratio = 18.33

|students =

|enrollment =1,393 (2018-19){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0602092&ID=060209212248|title=Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=January 19, 2021}}

|conference =Coliseum League
CIF Los Angeles City Section

|colors ={{color box|#75B2DD}} Columbia blue
{{color box|Gold}} Gold

|team name =Saints

|streetaddress =325 East 111th Street

|city = Los Angeles

|state = California

|zipcode = 90061

|country = United States

|coordinates= {{coord|33|56|9|N|118|16|1|W|display=inline,title}}

|website =[http://www.greendot.org/ Official website]

}}

Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy (formerly Locke High School) is a Title 1 co-educational charter high school located in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District/Green Dot Public Schools. It is named after Alain LeRoy Locke.

Locke is located in South Los Angeles near Watts. The school colors are Columbia blue and gold; their mascot is the saint.

History

Alain Leroy Locke Senior High School was opened in 1967 in response to the Watts riots. It was created to provide families in South Los Angeles a safe and secure school.

Forty years later, on September 11, 2007, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) made history when they voted to give operational control of Locke High School to Green Dot Public Schools. LAUSD made this decision in response to a conversion charter petition submitted by the teachers of Locke High School in support of the transition.

On September 8, 2008, Locke High School reopened as seven small college-prep schools, now known as the Locke Family of High Schools: Locke 1, Locke 2, Locke 3, Locke 4, Locke Tech, Animo Watts, and Ace Academy. The first class graduated in 2011. In 2013, Locke consolidated the family of schools, which were independently chartered, into one college-prep school under a single charter that contains a 9th grade academy and two upper-class academies, referred to as Gold Academy and Blue Academy.{{cite news|last1=Rojas|first1=Rick|title=Locke High School graduation: A Locke High milestone|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2011-jul-06-la-me-locke-grads-20110706-story.html|access-date=January 13, 2015|newspaper=LA Times|publisher=Tribune Publishing|date=July 6, 2011}}

=Crimes=

On April 5, 1973, two people were shot in a targeted gang attack.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/582994531/?match=1&terms=Locke+High+School|title=Apr 06, 1973, page 10 - Tucson Citizen at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}

On January 22, 1974, an 18-year-old male student who was an innocent bystander was killed on the school jogging track in a gang-related shooting.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/101014276/|title=Article clipped from The Los Angeles Times|date=January 23, 1974|website=Newspapers.com}}

On September 19, 1994, a 16-year-old female student was shot in the back during lunch and two male students were shot in a drive-by shooting just outside of the schools campus later in the day. The shooting was believed to be gang related.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-20-me-40735-story.html|title=Girl, 16, Wounded on Campus of Locke High : Violence: Two other youths are shot later near the South-Central school. Police blame gangs.|date=September 20, 1994|work=Los Angeles Times}}

On March 17, 2005, another gang related shooting happened in which a 15-year-old female student was shot outside of campus who died of her injuries.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-18-me-shot18-story.html|title=Girl, 15, Shot Outside Locke High|date=March 18, 2005|work=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-09-me-briefs9.4-story.html|title=Gang Member Convicted in Slaying of Student|date=March 9, 2006|work=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lapdonline.org/|title=Home of the Los Angeles Police Department|website=LAPD Online}}

On May 10, 2008, a fight "between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee" involving up to 600 people.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-10-me-locke10-story.html|title=Rival Latinos and blacks start melee on South L.A. campus|first1=Howard|last1=Blume|first2=Mitchell|last2=Landsberg|date=May 10, 2008|access-date=December 30, 2016|newspaper=LA Times}} The disturbance, which occurred under the backdrop of tensions between black and Hispanic students,{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1806968,00.html|title=Black vs. Brown at LA School|first=Thomas|last=Fields-Meyer|magazine=Time |date=May 15, 2008|access-date=December 30, 2016|via=content.time.com}} was quelled after dozens of officers from the Los Angeles Unified School District Police and Los Angeles Police Department responded. Three students and one non-student were arrested; four students were treated for minor injuries. There were no serious injuries.

A third shooting happened on April 13, 2009, in front of the school which resulted in a 16-year-old male student being wounded.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/teen-shot-in-front-of-locke-high-school-in-south-la/1894448/|title=Teen Shot in Front of Locke High School in South LA|date=April 13, 2009}}{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=8318903&page=1|title=Los Angeles' Most Troubled High School Undergoes Transformation|website=ABC News}}

Student demographics

In 2010, Locke #3 had a total of 566 students: 40% African-American (231 students) and 60% Latino (334 students).{{cite web|url=http://www.greatschools.org/california/los-angeles/high-schools/?start=75&sortBy=GS_RATING_DESCENDING&gradeLevels=h&st=public&st=charter&st=private|title=Los Angeles High Schools - Los Angeles, CA - GreatSchools|access-date=January 13, 2015}}

At Animo Locke 3, there are 141 students in the 9th grade: 87 Latinos/Hispanic, 54 African American. There are 90 Latinos/Hispanics in the 10th grade and 64 African Americans. In total, there are 154 students in the 10th grade. There are 81 Latino/Hispanic and 81 African Americans in the 11th grade. The total is 162 students in 11th grade. There are 76 12th grade Latino/Hispanics and 54 African Americans in the 12th grade, making a total of 130 12th graders in Animo Locke 3. There is a total of 232 African Americans and 334 Latino/Hispanics. The overall of students in the school ends up being 566 students learning in Animo Locke 3.

Athletics

The Saints compete in CIF's LA City Section in the Coliseum League. The following sports are offered to the students of Locke:

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  • Boys Soccer
  • Girls Soccer
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Boys Basketball
  • Girls Basketball
  • Track and Field
  • Cross Country
  • Boys Volleyball
  • Girls Volleyball
  • Cheerleading
  • Boys Tennis
  • Girls Tennis
  • Football

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Notable alumni

{{alumni|date=September 2017}}

References

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External links

{{Portal|Greater Los Angeles|Schools}}

  • {{official website|http://ca.greendot.org/locke/}}

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Category:Los Angeles Unified School District schools

Category:Public high schools in Los Angeles

Category:Charter high schools in California

Category:1967 establishments in California

Category:Educational institutions established in 1967