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Fairfax High School (officially Fairfax Senior High School) is a
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high school located in Los Angeles, California, near the border of
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in the Fairfax District. The school is located on a campus at the intersection of
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and
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, north of the
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studios, right at the heart of the
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. Several sections of Los Angeles, including the Fairfax District, Park La Brea, portions of
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, and
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, and the city of
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are served by Fairfax. Some areas (including parts of West Hollywood) are jointly zoned to Fairfax High School and
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. In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to
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were rezoned to Fairfax High School. Bancroft Middle School, Emerson Middle School, Le Conte Middle School, and John Burroughs Middle School feed into Fairfax. In 2009, some territory from the
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attendance boundary was transferred to Fairfax High School. Fairfax High School has been widely regarded as one of the most diverse high schools in the city, state, and country.


History

Fairfax High School was founded in 1924 under the direction of Principal Rae G. Van Cleve, for whom the athletic field is named. When first built, with a backdrop of the iconic rotunda and Dewitt Swann Auditorium, a reflecting pond was the first thing students saw when they arrived at school. The school has seen numerous renovations over the years. The original
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main building did not meet earthquake safety standards. In order to comply with Earthquake and modernization codes, the main building was demolished and rebuilt in 1966. However, the historic D. S. Swan Auditorium and iconic Rotunda were spared by preservationists and retrofitted. In 1971, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Los Angeles, severely damaging other schools. The rotunda was not demolished during the rebuilding phase in 1966, leaving it as one of the only two rotundas on the west coast. The theater was renovated in 2014. Greenway Court, originally built in 1939 as a social hall by the students at Fairfax as a class project, was also spared and was moved to its current location on Fairfax Avenue, where it was converted into a theater in 1999 by the Greenway Arts Alliance and renamed the Greenway Court Theater. Former NFL official
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served as the school's principal from 1964 to 1970. Most of the current campus facilities, except for those mentioned above, were built between 1966 and 1968. When the
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struck with a magnitude of 6.5–6.7, nearby
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was damaged severely and closed for repairs. Students from Los Angeles High attended Fairfax High on "double sessions", with Fairfax students using the campus from 7 am to 12 noon, and LA High students from 12:30 pm to 5 pm. Fairfax was the foreign language magnet school in the 1960s and 1970s, offering Hebrew, German, Chinese and Latin, among other languages. The Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts opened in 1981 and remains the only visual arts magnet in the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 1984, Dr. Virginia Uribe, founded LAUSD's Project 10 program, a dropout prevention program specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (
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) students in the United States. Organized by a group of local theater artists, the first Melrose Trading Post flea market was held in 1996 in the school's parking lot. Regarded as the most successful on-going fund-raising activity in the LAUSD, the flea market evolved into the ''Greenway Arts Alliance'', the ''Friends of Fairfax'' and the Institute for the Arts at Fairfax High School, all which are of immense benefit to the school and students.


Demographics

As of the 2015–2016 school year, there were 2,108 students enrolled in Fairfax High School. The racial/ethnic composition (as of the 2015–2016 school year) was as follows: According to '' U.S. News & World Report'', 92% of Fairfax's student body is "of color", with 79% of the student body coming from economically disadvantaged households, determined by student eligibility for California's
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program. In the 1950s, Fairfax High School was known for having a large Jewish student body, Moore, Deborah Dash. '' To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.''.
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as a Jewish community surrounded the school. It became known as a "Jewish" high school, and some
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parents withdrew their children from Fairfax as they felt discomfort with the Jewish character of the school. Moore, Deborah Dash. '' To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.''.
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In 1953, Fairfax High introduced
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classes, initially taught by the principal of the Beverly-Fairfax Jewish Community Center, Ronnie Tofield. The racial composition became significantly more multi-cultural following the integration efforts of 1968. As Fairfax principal William Layne told the
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in 1975, “Fairfax began changing in 1968. Then the boundaries were adjusted to include an area past Pico. It caused a trauma to what had been an all-white, academic school. There was strong reaction from the community as well. The senior citizens got upset when they saw a kid they couldn't identify with. There was also unrest at school, fearfulness, and an increase in thefts and people being molested." Eventually, racial tensions subsided as the school worked toward an active integration plan led by Layne. The table below represents the number of enrolled students at Fairfax High School through 2003–2007. Source:


Small Learning Communities

Fairfax High School re-opened in
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2008 reconfigured into a complex consisting of the existing Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts and five new small learning communities (SLCs). The campus was divided into six areas of "contiguous space". Non-magnet students and staff were reorganized into five new schools-within-a-school. Subsequently, in 2010, two of the SLCs were replaced by a single SLC, bringing the total down to four SLCs and the Magnet. Currently, these SLCs are: *Academy of Media & Performing Arts (AMPA) *Academy of International Business and Communications (IBC) *Health Sciences Academy (HSA) *School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (SMST).


Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts

Fairfax is home to the Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts, which attracts students from across the of the district. It opened in 1981 and is the only visual arts magnet in Los Angeles Unified School District.


Greenway Arts Alliance

Fairfax High School's outer South side is home to the Greenway Arts Alliance (not an FHS entity), which operates the Greenway Court Theater, a 99-seat Equity-waiver playhouse, and through the Institute for the Arts at Greenway, provides non-LAUSD arts educational programs, mentoring, and employment opportunities to Fairfax students. Since 1997, the Melrose Trading Post outdoor flea market has created opportunities for Fairfax High School and the surrounding neighborhood. Money raised by this nonprofit organization from the low-cost patron admission and vendor booth fees fuels an off-campus, arts education program called Institute for the Arts at Greenway.


Notable alumni

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Joe Ruby Joseph Clemens Ruby (March 30, 1933 – August 26, 2020) was an American animator, writer, television producer, and music editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the animated ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise, together with Ken Spears. In 1977, they ...
, co-creator of
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Ann Rutherford Therese Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012) was a Canadian-born American actress in film, radio, and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the An ...
, actress *
Henry Samueli Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954) is an American businessman and engineer. He is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange County, C ...
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Doug Sax Doug Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He mastered three The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six Pink Floyd's albums, including '' The Wall''; Ray Charles' multiple ...
(1936–2015) Mastering engineer and co-founder of The Mastering Lab and Sheffield Lab record label. *
Allan Sherman Allan Sherman (born Allan Copelon or Allan Gerald Copelon; November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973) was an American musician, satirist, and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, '' M ...
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Larry Sherry Lawrence Sherry (July 25, 1935 – December 17, 2006) was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed relief pitcher from 1958 to 1968, most prominently as a member of the Los Angeles ...
(1935–2006), Major League Baseball pitcher; MVP of the
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Norm Sherry Norman Burt Sherry (July 16, 1931 – March 8, 2021) was an American baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets from to . Sherry went on ...
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,
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, record producer *
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Hollywood Rose Hollywood Rose was an American glam metal group formed in June 1983. They are best known as a precursor for what would eventually become Guns N' Roses. The group was founded by Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber, while they were aided during ...
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Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a politician from Los Angeles County, California. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 3, an affluent district which includes the San Fernando Valley, the Westsi ...
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Warren Zevon Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All t ...
, musician


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Greenway Arts Alliance

Melrose Trading Post

''The Colonial Gazette''
, online version of FHS's student newspaper
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