Alain LeRoy Locke College Preparatory Academy
Address
Map
325 East 111th Street

Los Angeles
,
California
90061

United States
Coordinates33°56′9″N 118°16′1″W / 33.93583°N 118.26694°W / 33.93583; -118.26694
Information
TypePublic charter high school
MottoOnce a saint, Always a saint
Established1967
School districtLos Angeles Unified School District/Green Dot Public Schools
Staff76.01 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,393 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio18.33[1]
Color(s)  Columbia blue
  Gold
Athletics conferenceColiseum League
CIF Los Angeles City Section
Team nameSaints
WebsiteOfficial 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.[2]

Crimes

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.[3]

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.[4][5][6]

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.[7] The disturbance, which occurred under the backdrop of tensions between black and Hispanic students,[8] 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.[7] There were no serious injuries.[8]

A third shooting happened on April 13, 2009, in front of the school which resulted in a 16-year-old male student being wounded.[9][10]

Student demographics

In 2010, Locke #3 had a total of 566 students: 40% African-American (231 students) and 60% Latino (334 students).[11]

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.[11]

Athletics

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

Notable alumni

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (September 2017)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  2. ^ Rojas, Rick (July 6, 2011). "Locke High School graduation: A Locke High milestone". LA Times. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  3. ^ "Girl, 16, Wounded on Campus of Locke High : Violence: Two other youths are shot later near the South-Central school. Police blame gangs". Los Angeles Times. September 20, 1994.
  4. ^ "Girl, 15, Shot Outside Locke High". Los Angeles Times. March 18, 2005.
  5. ^ "Gang Member Convicted in Slaying of Student". Los Angeles Times. March 9, 2006.
  6. ^ "Home of the Los Angeles Police Department". LAPD Online.
  7. ^ a b Blume, Howard; Landsberg, Mitchell (May 10, 2008). "Rival Latinos and blacks start melee on South L.A. campus". LA Times. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  8. ^ a b Fields-Meyer, Thomas (May 15, 2008). "Black vs. Brown at LA School". Time. Retrieved December 30, 2016 – via content.time.com.
  9. ^ "Teen Shot in Front of Locke High School in South LA".
  10. ^ "Los Angeles' Most Troubled High School Undergoes Transformation". ABC News.
  11. ^ a b "Los Angeles High Schools - Los Angeles, CA - GreatSchools". Retrieved January 13, 2015.

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