Lowell High School, a public magnet school in San Francisco, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi in the continental United States. Lowell was ranked #54 by Newsweek's Jay Mathews Challenge Index of best high schools of the United States in 2008 and #39 on U.S. News & World Report's Best High Schools in America for 2009.
Lowell High School traces its beginnings to 1856 as the Union Grammar School. In 1894, the school was renam...
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Lowell High School, a public magnet school in San Francisco, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi in the continental United States. Lowell was ranked #54 by Newsweek's Jay Mathews Challenge Index of best high schools of the United States in 2008 and #39 on U.S. News & World Report's Best High Schools in America for 2009.
Lowell High School traces its beginnings to 1856 as the Union Grammar School. In 1894, the school was renamed to honor the distinguished poet, James Russell Lowell, chiefly by Pelham W. Ames, a member of the school board and ardent admirer of James Russell Lowell. The school relocated in January 1913 to an entire city block on Hayes Street between Ashbury and Masonic. Lowell was to remain there a half century, during which time its position as the city's college preparatory high school was firmly established. In 1952, the drive accelerated for a new location near Lake Merced. Lowell opened at this new location in 1962 to complete the final move in...
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