John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir.
The school's buildings were originally a part of John Muir Junior College (not to be confused with John Muir College in San Diego, California). The junior college merged with Pasadena City College, and converted to a two-year high scho...
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John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir.
The school's buildings were originally a part of John Muir Junior College (not to be confused with John Muir College in San Diego, California). The junior college merged with Pasadena City College, and converted to a two-year high school in the Fall semester of 1954. (The senior students of the first graduating high-school class in 1955 were freshmen of the previous two-year junior college in the prior year.) It later become a full four-year high school, located on Lincoln Avenue, named after Lincoln, Nebraska.
Prior to 1964, many white students from the community of La Canada Flintridge, California joined those from the black neighborhood of northwest Pasadena and the racially mixed community of Altadena, and enrollment was nearly 3,000 students. In 1965, La Canada...
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