1. A Year of Accomplishments
District ONE Schools
A Year of
Accomplishments

2. Academics

3. 2004 & 2005 National Academic Decathlon Champions
El Camino High School

4. California Distinguished Schools
Grover Cleveland High School
Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies
Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School

5. The API “700” Club Elementary Schools
Bertrand
Calvert
Cantara
Capistrano
Chatsworth Park 748
CHIME
Cohasset

6. The API “700” Club Elementary Schools
Danube
Darby
Dearborn
Encino
Fullbright
Garden Grove

7. The API “700” Club Elementary Schools
Gledhill
Granada
Hart
Haskell
Knollwood
Lassen

8. The API “700” Club Elementary Schools
Lemay
Mayall
Melvin
Nevada 710
Newcastle
Parthenia
Reseda

9. The API “700” Club Elementary Schools
San Jose
Shirley
Stagg
Tarzana
Vanalden
Winnetka 730
CHIME

10. The API “700” Club Middle Schools
Frost MS 723
Hale MS 754
Henry MS 711
Holmes MS 742
Lawrence MS 706
Parkman MS 707
Portola MS 749
Porter MS 734

11. The API “700” Club High Schools
El Camino HS 726
Valley Alt
Granada Hills HS 754

12. Elite Eight Hundred Club
Andasol 827
Beckford 846
Calabash 806
Calahan 809
Castlebay 888
El Oro Way 818

13. Elite Eight Hundred Club
Emelita
Germain 811
Hamlin
Haynes
Justice
Lanai
Lockhurst 818

14. Elite Eight Hundred Club
Lorne
Nestle
Pomelo
Serrania 820
Superior 819
Topeka

15. Elite Eight Hundred Club
Tulsa
Van Gogh 850
Vintage Mgnt. 844
Wilbur
Woodlake 830

16. Elite Eight Hundred Club
Nobel MS 812
SOCES

17. The Fabulous 900 Club
Welby Way
919

18. The Fabulous 900 Club
Woodland Hills
935

19. The Fabulous 900 Club
Balboa Gifted Magnet
975

20. Title I Academic Achievement Award Schools
Calahan Street Elementary
Cantara Street Elementary
Emelita Street Elementary
Encino Elementary
Hamlin Street Elementary

21. Title I Academic Achievement Award Schools
Knollwood Elementary
Lemay Elementary
Lorne Street Elementary
Nestle Avenue Elementary
Stagg Street Elementary

22. Title I Academic Achievement Award Schools
Superior Street Elementary
Tarzana Elementary
Tulsa Street Elementary
Vintage Street Elementary

23. Canoga Park High School increased their API scores for the third consecutive year

24. 90% of Valley Alternative’s 10th grade students passed CAHSEE in both math and Language Arts on the first attempt

25. Valley New High School #1 had 100% participation in CAHSEE testing. 99
Valley New High School #1 had 100% participation in CAHSEE testing % participation in CST testing

26. Birmingham High School met their API goals for every sub group

27. Cleveland High School’s API increased 41 points

28. Stoney Point is offering Saturday Algebra classes

29. African American students at Portola Middle School gained 67 points on their API and Hispanic students gained 30 points on their API

30. SOCES has a 98% CAHSEE pass rate in ELOA and 96% in math
SOCES has a 98% CAHSEE pass rate in ELOA and 96% in math. They are in the top 3 in LAUSD

31. Monroe High School’s API increased 40 points last year and 100 points over the last 5 years

32. Athletics

33. Birmingham High School won the Los Angeles City Football Championship
Sports

34. El Camino Real High School won the Girls City Soccer Championship

35. Chatsworth High School won the Pre-season National Championship in baseball

36. Kennedy High School won Valley Mission League Championship in Boys Golf Girls Track & Varsity Baseball

37. Sepulveda Middle School came in 1st Place in Cheerleading in Magic Mountain Competition

38. Monroe High School’s fencing team was one of the top fencing teams in the state

39. Canoga Park High School won the Softball League Championship

40. Sherman Oaks CES received the Magnet League Championship in Boys’ Basketball and Baseball

41. Taft’s Coach Mercado was honored by city Section – Coaches Sportsmanship Award

42. Over 130 students and staff from Sutter Middle School participated in the Lloyd Levine Fitness Run

43. Cleveland High School won the Girls City Swimming Championship
Sports

44. Reseda’s Girls’ Tennis and Boys’ Volleyball teams won city invitational championships in 2004/2005

45. State Girls Soccer Coach of the Year
Vickie Lagos
Kennedy High School

46. El Camino Real High School won the City Baseball Championship

47. Valley Alternative’s Girls’ and Boys’ Volleyball teams won League Championships and participated in City Finals

48. Jun Kelley of Reseda is the 50 meter breast stroke swimming city champion. Also, scholar/athlete having taken 8 AP courses

49. Birmingham High School won the Girls City Track and Field Championship

50. Awards & Achievements

51. District ONE Beautiful 2004-2005 Grand Prize Winners
Balboa Magnet School
Bassett Street School
Canoga Park School
Chatsworth School
Dearborn Street School

52. District ONE Beautiful 2004-2005 Grand Prize Winners
Douglas High School
Emelita Street School
Fullbright Avenue School
Hart Street School
Lanai Road School

53. District ONE Beautiful 2004-2005 Grand Prize Winners
Lull School
Monroe High School
Nestle Avenue School
Nevada Avenue School
Nobel Middle School

54. District ONE Beautiful 2004-2005 Grand Prize Winners
Porter Middle School
Serrania Avenue School
Stagg Street School
Tulsa Street School
Wilbur Avenue School

55. District ONE Beautiful 2004-2005
First Prize
Calahan Street School
Miller High School
Frost Middle School
Sherman Oaks CES
Gledhill Street School
Van Gogh Street School
Melvin Avenue School
Wooden High School

56. District ONE Beautiful 2004-2005
Second Place
Henry Middle School
Reseda High School
Napa Street School
Sutter Middle School
Reseda School
Topeka Drive School

57. Banner Recipients Calabash Elementary Calahan Elementary
Calvert Elementary
Canoga Park Elementary
Castlebay Lane Elementary
Chatsworth Park Elementary

58. Banner Recipients Cohasset Elementary Danube Elementary
Darby Elementary
Dearborn Elementary
El Oro Way Elementary
Emelita Elementary

59. Banner Recipients Encino Elementary Frost Middle School
Fullbright Elementary
Garden Grove Elementary
Germain Elementary
Gledhill Elementary/Magnet

60. Banner Recipients Hale Middle School Hamlin Elementary Hart Elementary
Haskell Elementary/Magnet
Henry Middle School
Holmes Middle School

61. Banner Recipients John R. Wooden High School Knollwood Elementary
Lawrence Middle School
Lemay Elementary
Lockhurst Elementary
Lorne Elementary

62. Banner Recipients Mayall Elementary Nestle Elementary
Newcastle Elementary
Nobel Middle School
Pomelo Elementary
Reseda Elementary

63. Banner Recipients San Jose Elementary Serrania Elementary
Stagg Elementary
Sunny Brae Elementary
Superior Elementary
Tarzana Elementary

64. Banner Recipients Topeka Elementary Tulsa Elementary
Vanalden Elementary
Vintage Magnet Elementary
Welby Way Elementary
West Valley School
Woodland Hills Elementary

65. 2005 Bravo Award Winner
Cathy Paulson
Tulsa Street
Elementary School

66. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Hirout (Mimi) Dagnew
Emilita Street School

67. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Noemi Flores
Mulholland Middle School

68. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Monica Fulford
Lanai Road School

69. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Suzanna Gordon
Sherman Oaks
Center for Enriched Studies

70. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Marianne Maki
Reseda High School

71. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Vanessa Nguyen
Nestle Avenue School

72. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Jenny Sarpolis
Zane Grey High School

73. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Lois Siskin
Encino Elementary School

74. Encino Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year
Cheryl Spivak
Portola Middle School

75. New Library Openings Langdon Elementary Ranchito Elementary
Lemay Elementary
Calabash Elementary
Gledhill Elementary
Topeka Drive Elementary
Chatsworth Park Elementary
Germain Elementary

76. National Student Television Award for Excellence
Jeff Jackson and Edgar DeLoera
Winning Category: Technical Achievement
“NHRA Career Opportunity Day”
Cleveland High School
James Gleason, Faculty

77. National Student Television Award for Excellence
Michael D. Mazzola
Winning Category: Documentary
“Home For The Holidays”
Cleveland High School
James Gleason, Faculty

78. Taft became City Champions for the Academic Decathlon

79. Monroe High School won third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh and eighteenth place out of 1000 contenders in the 2005 California High School Speech Association State Championship.

80. East Valley New Middle School received Attendance Incentive Awards of over $62,800

81. Nestle Elementary School’s, Loni Van Lansweerde was a finalist for a Bravo Award and won an Outstanding Teacher Award from Mayor Hahn

82. Leichman High School established a computer lab to provide educational enrichment to parents and students

83. Portola Middle School recognized by the Josephson Institute of Drama program’s plays that focused on Character Counts principles

84. Cleveland High School won first place in the Video in the Classroom Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival

85. Mulholland Principal, Dr
Mulholland Principal, Dr. White was appointed to Governor’s Education Task Force

86. Parkman Middle School earned the Greatest District 1 Middle School API Growth (41 points)

87. Monroe High School’s Kathy Graber won the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award for Mock Trial

88. Teacher Cynthia Hernandez of Germain Elementary School is a Bravo Award winner and a finalist in the Getty Parental Community Involvement Awards

89. Porter Middle School received the Red Cross Clara Barton Award

90. Kennedy High School Student Gibran Minero National Hispanic Distinguished Scholar Harvard, 2005

91. Hale Middle School was a Regional and State Horticulture Writing Contest Finalist

92. Paul Trepani from Wooden High School was selected as an outstanding educator by the Walk of Hearts Foundation

93. Frost Middle School won a Model United Nations Secretary General’s Award

94. Cleveland High School was recognized by EdTrust as being in the top 4% of high schools in the nation and addressing the myth of poverty

95. Nobel Middle School is a LACOE Math Field Day Medalist

96. Henry Middle School was awarded the Animaction’s Outstanding Spanish Language Public Service Announcement

97. SOCES received the Interscholastic Athletic Committee’s 2005 “Character Counts/Pursuing Victory with Honor” LAUSD School of the Year award

98. Northridge Middle School won 3 Video in the Classroom (VIC) awards

99. HighTechHigh-LA’s Robotics team placed 4th in F. I. R. S. T
HighTechHigh-LA’s Robotics team placed 4th in F.I.R.S.T. World Championships

100. Students at Primary Academy for Success were recognized for reading the most books at “Todos Leer” sponsored by Univision and Ford Motor Co.

101. Jessica Rivera, Mulholland Middle School student’s picture was selected for the EMAZE publication

102. California Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Middle School Teacher of the Year Helene Stevenson Holmes Middle School

103. Monroe High School’s Army JROTC corps won the ROTC city championship for the seventh year in a row!

104. Frost Middle School won a Congressional Recognition for Celebrating Diversity and International Understanding

105. SOCES received the Teacher of the Year Award for Suzanna Giordon – English Teacher

106. Sutter Middle School band won third place in the National competition held in Anaheim

107. Two Northridge Middle School students received Benjamin Banneker Math Awards

108. Cleveland High School was recognized by Newsweek Magazine as one of the finest high schools in America

109. Portola Middle School’s MathCounts team won 1st place in Southern California Competition

110. Mulholland Middle School received Attendance Improvement ($14,600) Incentive

111. Eleven Kennedy Architecture magnet students placed in state competition and will attend national competition

112. Valley Art Institute Exceptional Art Student Award given to Porter Middle School

113. Community/Partnerships

114. Parent Centers Opened This Year Elementary
Bertrand Elementary
San José Elementary
Gault Elementary
Winnetka Elementary

115. Parent Centers Opened This Year Middle School
East Valley New MS
Parkman MS

116. Parent Centers Opened This Year High School
Birmingham HS
Cleveland HS
Sherman Oaks CES

117. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Unit of the Year
Nobel Middle School PTSA

118. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Unit of the Year- Honorable Mention
Lockhurst PTA
Lanai Road PTA
Justice Street PTA
Taft High PTSA

119. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Newsletter Award
Beckford Avenue PTA
Wilbur Avenue PTA
Nobel Middle School PTSA

120. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Newsletter Award-Honorable Mention
Lockhurst PTA
Lanai Road PTA
Superior Street PTA
Taft High PTA

121. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Program Directory Award
Superior Street School PTA
Nobel Middle School PTSA

122. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Program Directory Award-Honorable Mention
Lanai Road PTA
Taft High PTSA

123. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Membership Poster
Vanalden Elementary PTA
Nobel Middle School PTSA

124. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Membership Poster-Honorable Mention
Lockhurst PTA
Nobel Middle School PTSA

125. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Safety Award
Lanai Road PTA
Superior Street PTA
Taft High School PTSA

126. 31ST District PTSA 2005 Outstanding Unit Award Recipients
Safety Award-Honorable Mention
San Jose PTA
Justice Street PTA
Columbus Middle PTSA
Chatsworth High PTSA

127. Sutter Middle School’s Parent Center celebrated its ten year anniversary

128. Kennedy High School Students raised $6,500 in six days for Tsunami Relief

129. City of Los Angeles awarded a Proclamation for Outstanding Family Center to Sepulveda Middle School

130. Over 120 parents from Sutter Middle School participated in and graduated from Parent Institute classes

131. And much, much more!