Jordan High School (Los Angeles)


David Starr Jordan High School is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles. The school was named for David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University. The school colors are Royal blue and white and the mascot is a bulldog.
Some sections of Florence-Graham, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County, are jointly zoned to Jordan and John C. Fremont High School. The Gonzaque Village, Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs, and Nickerson Gardens public housing developments of Los Angeles are zoned to Jordan.
Jordan is one of a few high schools to have three, unrelated, Olympic gold medalists come from the same high school in Hayes Edward Sanders, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Kevin Young. Sanders, in 1952, became the first African American to win the Olympic Heavyweight Boxing Championship while both Griffith-Joyner and Young still hold the current World Record in their respective events.

History

From the 1930s to the 1970s the Jordan site was used for melting of scrap iron and scrap metal storage.

Modernization

From early 2015 through late 2016 Jordan High School was temporarily closed for Modernizations and New Constructions of the school. Students moved to a different school during renovations. The school reopened in late 2016.
Prior to the 2005 opening of South East High School, Jordan served portions of the City of South Gate.
In March 2017 LAUSD sued the Los Angeles Housing Authority, stating that contaminants seeped onto the Jordan site from the neighboring Jordan Downs housing project.

Notable alumni