University High School (San Juan)
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"UHS" or the University High School in San Juan
, Puerto Rico
is a teaching facility operated by the Faculty of Education of the University of Puerto Rico. Located on University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
, it provides education to approximately 600 students from 7th to 12th grade. Its main building is a nearly century-old art deco
building located on Gándara avenue, and includes a three-story classroom annex designed in the 1970s by architect George McClintock, and a roofed basketball court pavilion and school-lunch cafeteria building (also designed by McClintock in the 1970s) shared with the UPR Elementary School.
UHS's faculty is composed of UPR
professors. Students who have fulfilled their general education requirements are allowed to take college-level courses at UPR's Río Piedras campus and all students are allowed to use the José M. Lázaro general library and other campus facilities.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
is a teaching facility operated by the Faculty of Education of the University of Puerto Rico. Located on University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras , also referred to as UPR-RP, is a public research university located on a campus in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico...
, it provides education to approximately 600 students from 7th to 12th grade. Its main building is a nearly century-old art deco
Art Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
building located on Gándara avenue, and includes a three-story classroom annex designed in the 1970s by architect George McClintock, and a roofed basketball court pavilion and school-lunch cafeteria building (also designed by McClintock in the 1970s) shared with the UPR Elementary School.
UHS's faculty is composed of UPR
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...
professors. Students who have fulfilled their general education requirements are allowed to take college-level courses at UPR's Río Piedras campus and all students are allowed to use the José M. Lázaro general library and other campus facilities.
Prominent alumni
- Juan Manuel García PassalacquaJuan Manuel García PassalacquaJuan Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua was a well known lawyer, writer and political analyst from Puerto Rico.-Early years:...
, late political analyst - Velda González, former Senate Vice President, actress
- Kenneth McClintockKenneth McClintockKenneth D. McClintock-Hernández is the current Secretary of State of Puerto Rico. Mr. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign's National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, co-chaired Clinton's successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the...
, PR Secretary of State and former Senate President - Victoria Muñoz MendozaVictoria Muñoz MendozaVictoria "Melo" Muñoz Mendoza is a former politician from Puerto Rico. She is the daughter of the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marín, founder of the Popular Democratic Party and his second wife, Inés Mendoza...
, former senator and gubernatorial candidate - Marco A. Rigau, former senator
- José M. SaldañaJosé M. SaldañaJosé M. Saldaña is a Puerto Rican academic who served as President of the University of Puerto Rico during the 1980s. He is a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. He graduated from U.H.S. at Rio Piedras, before obtaining his bachelor, masters and Doctor of Dental Medicine degree at the University...
, Puerto Rican academic and former UPR President - Roberto Sánchez RamosRoberto Sánchez RamosRoberto Sanchez Ramos is the former Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, appointed in 2005 by Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá. Before becoming Secretary of Justice, Sanchez Ramos served as Solicitor General of Puerto Rico. He is the son of former Governor of Puerto Rico Roberto Sánchez Vilella...
, former PR Attorney General - Marcos ZurinagaMarcos ZurinagaMarcos Zurinaga is a cinematographer born and raised in Puerto Rico. Among the several movies that he has directed is "La Gran Fiesta", a movie about the last grand party at the old "Casino de Puerto Rico" building in Old San Juan before it was turned over to military use as the United States was...
, movie director - José Andreu GarcíaJosé Andreu GarcíaJosé Antonio Andreu García is a Puerto Rican jurist who served as Chief Justice of Puerto Rico from 1992 to 2003. He was known for his moderate approach to Constitutional Law.- Career and Education :...
, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico - Julia de BurgosJulia de BurgosJulia Constancia Burgos García is considered by many as the greatest poet to have been born in Puerto Rico, and along with Gabriela Mistral, is considered as one of the greatest female poets of Latin America...
, puertorrican poet - Willy Rodriguez, lead singer of Cultura Profetica