Top 100 Best High Schools 2013 – Gretchen Whitney High School – Newsweek – 18/100

Top 100 Best High Schools 2013 – Gretchen Whitney High School – Newsweek – 18/100


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Gretchen A. Whitney High School, called Whitney High School or WHS, is a public school in Cerritos, California serving grades 7–12. It is in the ABC Unified School District.

History

Whitney High School was founded on September 25, 1976 (under the name Gretchen A. Whitney Learning Center) as a community academic learning center. It was created by ABC superintendent Charles Hutchison, who envisioned Whitney to be a vocational school. The school refocused[when?] as an academic prep school.[citation needed] As a tribute to Hutchison, the current cafeteria is named the Hutch.

In 1997, half of Whitney’s parking lot was purchased by a housing contractor to build a gated community adjacent to Whitney. In exchange, Whitney received funds to construct the long-awaited gymnasium. Just recently, Whitney built a multi-media arts center featuring computer labs with Macs, and a theater.[2]

Academics

Whitney’s curriculum includes 12 Advanced Placement courses and 35 Honors courses.

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City: Cerritos
State: CA
School Classification: S
GRAD RATE(%): 100
AP/IB TESTS: 1.4
COLLEGE BOUND(%): 100
AVG SAT: 1981
AVG ACT: 29.6
SUBS LUNCH(%): 20
AVG AP SCORE: 4.2
NEWSWEEK SCORE: 3.94