Long Beach Polytechnic High School
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Long Beach Polytechnic High School, founded in 1895 as Long Beach High School, is a High school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 located at 1600 Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.

The school serves portions of Long Beach, including Bixby Knolls
Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, California
-Location:Bixby Knolls is an affluent area of Long Beach adjoining North Long Beach to the north, California Heights on the southeast, Wrigley on the southwest...

, and some parts of the cities of Signal Hill
Signal Hill, California
Signal Hill is a small city in California located in the Greater Los Angeles area. Signal Hill, completely surrounded by the city of Long Beach, was incorporated on April 22, 1924, roughly three years after oil was discovered in Signal Hill. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...

 & Lakewood
Lakewood, California
Lakewood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 80,048 at the 2010 census. It is bordered by Long Beach on the west and south, Bellflower on the north, Cerritos on the northeast, Cypress on the east, and Hawaiian Gardens on the southeast. Major thoroughfares...

.

Polytechnic, (or more commonly known as Poly), is the flagship high school of the Long Beach Unified School District
Long Beach Unified School District
The Long Beach Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States.LBUSD serves most of Long Beach, all of the city of Signal Hill, and portions of Lakewood, and Paramount, as well as Avalon and Two Harbors on Santa Catalina Island.-School uniforms...

. It is a large urban high school with just over 5,000 students.

Polytechnic has long been distinguished in both academics and athletics. The PACE and the CIC magnet programs boast more total University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

 admissions than any other high school in California. In 2005, Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

 Magazine named Polytechnic the "Sports School of the Century", which applauds Polytechnic's badminton, baseball, basketball, football, track, cross country, and other sports programs. Polytechnic has also received numerous prizes for its music program, including multiple (6) Grammy Awards, 2 of them being "golden signature" grammy awards. Long Beach Poly has also sent more players to the NFL than any other high school in the country, sending over 60 throughout the history of the school. Also Long Beach Poly was named athletic school of the century and ranked number one in best high school athletic program in the nation by sportsillustrated.cnn.com.

Academics

As the school motto states, Poly is the "Home of Scholars and Champions". The PACE and CIC magnet programs are highly desired destinations for students throughout the South Bay. In 2008, 1,573 AP exams were administered at Poly with over 75% of testees receiving a passing score of 3 or higher. The national pass rate in 2008 was slightly over 58%. Poly is also the highest academic performance index of any traditional high school in Long Beach with a 2009 score of 747. Poly consistently ranks a 9 out of 10 when compared to schools with similar demographics since 2007.

4th and Forever

A reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 on Current TV
Current TV
Current TV, or Current, is a media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. Comcast owns a ten percent stake of Current's parent company, Current Media LLC....

, titled 4th and Forever, focuses on the school's strong football program. It's been called the real-life version of Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. The series details events surrounding a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team...

 but has also been derided as inaccurate and "[relying] on repetitive reality-show conventions".

Filming location

Long Beach Poly has been the backdrop for many commercials, television shows, and films.

  • The Craft
    The Craft (film)
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     (1996)
  • American Beauty
    American Beauty (film)
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     (1999)
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     (1999)
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    (1999)
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    The Other Sister
    The Other Sister is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton, and Tom Skerritt. Garry Marshall directed the film...

     (1999)
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     (2002) Episode 3.15 "The Big Splash"
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     (2002) Music Video I'm Just A Kid
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    "I'm Just a Kid" is the debut single by Simple Plan, written by Pierre Bouvier. It appeared on their debut album No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls...

  • P.O.D.
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     (2003) Music Video Will You
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  • Love Don't Cost a Thing
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     (2003)
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     (2004) Episode 5.1 Surfing Selena
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    Sleepover is a 2004 American teen film directed by Joe Nussbaum and starring Alexa Vega and Sara Paxton.-Plot:On the last day of 8th grade before their freshman year in high school, Julie Corky has a slumber party with 3 best friends, Hannah Carlson , Yancy Williams , and Farrah James...

    (2004)
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     (2005) CPR Dummy Steals gum Commercial
  • Coach Carter
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     (2005)
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    The New Guy is a 2002 American teen comedy directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison. Dizzy is an unpopular, high school band geek going through a hellish senior year...

     (2002)
  • Cold Case (2006) Episode 3.12 Detention
  • NCIS
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     (2006) Episode 3.18 Bait
  • Paris Hilton
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    Paris Whitney Hilton is an American businesswoman, heiress, and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton . Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood...

     (2006) Music Video Nothing In This World
    Nothing In This World
    "Nothing in This World" was released on September 12, 2006 and is the second official single taken from Paris Hilton's debut album Paris, and features vocals from then-unknown pop singer Kesha.-Release and reception:...

  • Miss/Guided (2007) Ashton Kutcher TV Pilot
  • Nancy Drew (2007)
  • Mind of Mencia
    Mind of Mencia
    Mind of Mencia is an American television comedy series on the cable channel Comedy Central. Hosted by Carlos Mencia, it aired from 2005 to 2008.- History :...

     (2007) Stereotype Olympics
  • Boston Legal
    Boston Legal
    Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...

     (2007)
  • Snoop Dogg's Father Hood
    Snoop Dogg's Father Hood
    Snoop Dogg's Father Hood was an American television reality show starring rapper Snoop Dogg and his family. His family includes wife Shante, daughter Cori whom he calls "Choc", son Cordell whom he calls "Rook", and his oldest son Corde whom he calls "Spank". It premiered December 9, 2007 on E! and...

     (2008)
  • Cold Case (2008) Episode 6.2 "True Calling"
  • Fired Up
    Fired Up (film)
    Fired Up! is a 2009 teen comedy film produced and directed by Will Gluck and written by Freedom Jones. The main plot revolves around two popular high school football players who create their lie to attend cheerleading camp for the summer and get close to its female cheerleaders.-Plot:Nick Brady...

     (2009)
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    Oreo
    Oreo is a trademark for a popular sandwich cookie by the Nabisco Division of Kraft Foods. The current design consists of a sweet, white filling commonly referred to as 'cream' or 'creme', sandwiched between two circular chocolate or golden cookie pieces....

     (2010)

Baseball

  • Tony Gwynn
    Tony Gwynn
    Anthony Keith "Tony" Gwynn, Sr. , nicknamed Mr. Padre and Captain Video, is a former Major League Baseball right fielder. He is statistically one of the best and most consistent hitters in baseball history. He played his entire 20-year baseball career for the San Diego Padres...

  • Milton Bradley
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    Oscar Brown, Jr was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor.He ran for office in the Illinois state legislature and U.S...

  • Ollie Brown
  • Chris Gwynn
    Chris Gwynn
    Christopher Karlton "Chris" Gwynn is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.-Career:...

  • Tony Gwynn
    Tony Gwynn
    Anthony Keith "Tony" Gwynn, Sr. , nicknamed Mr. Padre and Captain Video, is a former Major League Baseball right fielder. He is statistically one of the best and most consistent hitters in baseball history. He played his entire 20-year baseball career for the San Diego Padres...

  • James McDonald
    James McDonald (baseball)
    James Zell McDonald is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates.-Los Angeles Dodgers:...

  • Randy Moffitt
    Randy Moffitt
    Randall James Moffitt is a former American baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays. Born in Long Beach, California, he is the younger brother of tennis star Billie Jean Moffitt King....

  • Chase Utley
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    Chase Cameron Utley is a second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. A native of the Greater Los Angeles area, he was raised in the city of Long Beach. He was a star baseball player at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, before moving on to UCLA...

  • Charlie Williams
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    Charles Herman Williams was an American baseball umpire who officiated in the National League from 1982 to 1999, and in both leagues in 2000. In 1993 he became the first African American umpire to work behind home plate in a World Series game...

    , MLB Umpire

Football

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  • Darnell Bing
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  • Mark Carrier
  • Antoine Cason
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    -San Diego Chargers:2008 seasonCason played in all 16 regular season games and both playoff games at cornerback and on special teams as a rookie for the 2008 AFC Western Division champion San Diego Chargers. His first NFL interception came on September 14, 2008, against the Denver Broncos, picking...

     (attended)
  • Hershel Dennis
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  • Tony Hill
    Tony Hill (American football)
    Leroy Anthony Hill, Jr. is a former professional American football wide receiver who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys from 1977 to 1986...

  • DeSean Jackson
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    Going to the 2008 NFL Draft Jackson was considered one of the top ten wide receivers available in a draft class littered with talented wide outs. The only knock on Jackson was his small frame, being measured at 5'9¾ " and just over 170 pounds. During the pre-draft period, Hall of Fame wide receiver...

  • Winston Justice
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  • Marcedes Lewis
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  • Earl R. McCullouch
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  • Willie McGinest
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  • Stephone Paige
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    Stephone Paige , is a former professional American football player who played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1983 to 1992 and the Minnesota Vikings in 1993. A 6'2" 185 lb. wide receiver undrafted free agent from Fresno State University, Paige played 9 years for the Chiefs and his final year...

  • Samie Parker
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    Samie Jabar Parker is an American football wide receiver for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

  • Marquez Pope
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  • Ken-Yon Rambo
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    Ken-Yon Rambo is a professional American and Canadian football wide receiver, currently with the Canadian Football League team Calgary Stampeders.-Early life:...

  • Jeff Smith
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  • Omar Stoutmire
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    Omar Array Stoutmire is a retired American football safety in the National Football League. He played college football at Fresno State and was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the seventh round of the 1997 NFL Draft....

  • Pago Togafau
    Pago Togafau
    Pago F. Togafau is an American football linebacker who is currently a member of the Spokane Shock. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2007...

  • Gene Washington
  • Manuel Wright
    Manuel Wright
    Manuel "Manny" Wright is an Arena football Offensive lineman / Defensive lineman for the Stockton Lightning of af2. He was originally drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 2005 supplemental draft. He played college football at USC.Wright has also briefly been signed to the...


Track and Field

  • Andrea Anderson
    Andrea Anderson
    Andrea Anderson is an American track and field athlete best remembered for winning a gold medal on the 4 x 400 meters relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She ran in the preliminaries and semi-finals...

  • John Rambo
    John Rambo (athlete)
    John Barnett Rambo was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.Rambo competed for the United States in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the high jump where he won the bronze medal....

  • Earl Thomson
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    Earl John "Tommy" Thompson was Canadian athlete, a specialist in the high hurdles....

  • Shalonda Solomon
    Shalonda Solomon
    Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...


Other

  • Alice Estes Davis
    Alice Estes Davis
    Alice Estes Davis is an American costume designer. She is most famous for her work with Walt Disney, who employed her to develop costumes for films, television, and theme parks. She was married to Marc Davis, a Disney animator and Imagineer. Alice was named a Disney Legend in 2004.-Early life and...

    , Disney Legend in Costume Design
  • Terry Kennedy
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    , professional skateboarder
  • Samantha Larson
    Samantha Larson
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     - mountaineer

Entertainers

  • Actor John Wayne
    John Wayne
    Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...

     attended before transferring to Glendale High in the 1920s
  • Opera Singer Marilyn Horne
    Marilyn Horne
    Marilyn Horne is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages....

  • Actress Barbara Britton
    Barbara Britton
    Barbara Britton was an American film and television actress.She was the first actress to play Laura Petrie on television on the pilot program, Head of the Family, which was retooled and became The Dick Van Dyke Show with the role taken over by Mary Tyler Moore. The California native signed a film...

     (Brantingham)
  • Mexican Spanish-language Banda singer Jenni Rivera "La Diva de la banda"
  • Mexican regional singer Lupillo Rivera
    Lupillo Rivera
    Guadalupe Rivera in La Barca, Jalisco, Mexico, is a Mexican regional singer.As a youngster, Lupillo, his sister Jenni Rivera and the rest of the Rivera family moved to Long Beach California, where Lupillo graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1990.Rivera wanted to be a restaurant...

  • Julieta Venegas
    Julieta Venegas
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    , Mexican-American regional singer
  • Vietnamese singer Linda Chou
    Linda Chou
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  • Actress Cameron Diaz
    Cameron Diaz
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  • Rapper Snoop Dogg
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  • Actor Percy Daggs III
    Percy Daggs III
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  • Actor Carl Weathers
    Carl Weathers
    Carl Weathers is an American actor, as well as former professional football player in the United States and Canada. He is best known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films...

    ,
  • Writer Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
    Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
    Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is an American writer. Her writings are mostly focused on the ethnic diversity of the United States...

  • Actor and Academy award winner Van Heflin
    Van Heflin
    Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man...

  • Musician Spike Jones
    Spike Jones
    Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other Warner Brothers cartoon characters, performed a drunken, hiccuping verse for 1942's "Clink! Clink! Another Drink"...

  • Actress Laraine Day
    Laraine Day
    Laraine Day was an American actress and a former MGM contract star.-Career:Born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, to an affluent Mormon family, she later moved to California where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players...

  • Singer Jo Stafford
    Jo Stafford
    Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...

  • Suzanna Pavadee Vicheinrut, Miss Thailand
    Miss Thailand
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     1995 and Mrs. World
    Mrs. World
    Mrs. World is an international beauty pageant organized annually as a beauty contest for married women. It is originally based on the Mrs. America beauty pageant. Arranged on lines similar to other beauty pageants, it also lays stress on women's opinion on marriage...

     2004
  • Musician Bradley Nowell
    Bradley Nowell
    Bradley James Nowell was an American musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the Californian band Sublime. He died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime's self-titled major label debut.Raised in Long Beach, California, Nowell developed an...

    of Sublime

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