Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy (formerly Locke High School) is a
Title 1
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co-educational
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charter
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high school located in
Los Angeles, California
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,
United States
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, and is part of the
Los Angeles Unified School District/
Green Dot Public Schools
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. It is named after
Alain LeRoy Locke.
Locke is located in
South Los Angeles
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near
Watts
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Watts may also refer to:
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. 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
Green Dot Public Schools (GDPS) is a non-profit educational organization charter school district headquartered in Downtown Los Angeles, California that operates 18 public schools in Greater Los Angeles, including nine charter high schools, five ...
. 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.
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.
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.
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.
The disturbance, which occurred under the backdrop of tensions between
black
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and
Hispanic
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students,
was quelled after dozens of officers from the Los Angeles Unified School District Police and
Los Angeles Police Department
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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.
Student demographics
In 2010, Locke #3 had a total of 566 students: 40% African-American (231 students) and 60% Latino (334 students).
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:
*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
Notable alumni
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Fred Berry
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, actor
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Valerie Brisco-Hooks
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Leon "Ndugu" Chancler
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
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As an option quarterback at Co ...
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Darryl Haley
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David Mack, police officer
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Richard Marshall, former NFL player
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Terrace Martin
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Eddie Murray
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Sirr Parker, former NFL player
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Jay Rock
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Patrice Rushen
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Ozzie Smith
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J-Swift
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1967 establishments in California