La Habra High School is a public co-educational high school located in the

Orange County, California Orange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,186,989, making it the third-most-populous county in California, the sixth-most-populous in the United States, a ...

city of

La Habra La Habra (archaic spelling of ''La Abra'', ) is a city in the northwestern corner of Orange County, California, United States. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,239. A related city, La Habra Heights, is located to the north o ...

. Located between the Coyote Hills to the south and Puente Hills to the north, LHHS opened in 1954 and graduated its first class in 1956. It is a California Distinguished High School and has been nominated as a

National Blue Ribbon School The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States Department of Education award program that recognizes exemplary public and non-public schools on a yearly basis. Using standards of excellence evidenced by student achievement measures, ...

. The school is a member of the

Fullerton Joint Union High School District Fullerton Joint Union High School District (FJUHSD), founded in 1893 is a school district in Orange County, California that serves a fifty-square-mile area which includes the cities of Fullerton, La Habra, and small sections of Anaheim, Buena Pa ...

. LHHS absorbed a majority of the students from nearby Lowell High School when it closed in June 1980.

Athletics

La Habra's sports teams are known as the Highlanders and are members of the Freeway League in

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CIF championships

* Football: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015 * Girls volleyball: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 2000 *Men's soccer: 2007, 2008

Notable alumni

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, guitarist for Paul McCartney's Band – Macca * Greg Gaines, NFL nose tackle for the

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, Miss California, country music artist *

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, NFL running back *

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, artist * John N. Lotz,

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Brigadier General * Alan Newman, former professional baseball player, Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians *

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, former NFL defensive end who last played for the Detroit Lions *

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, NFL nose tackle for the

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, composer, arranger *

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, actress: Hawthorne, A League of Their Own, ''Mad About You'' *

Bubby Rossman Charles Irvin "Bubby" Rossman (born June 29, 1992) is an American-Israeli professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He played college baseball for Cerritos College and California State University, Dominguez Hills. He was selected in the ...

('10), major league baseball pitcher for the

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, U.S. Olympic softball player *

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, former NFL running back for Tampa Bay Buccaneers *

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, American atmospheric scientist

References

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