Millikan High School

Robert A. Millikan
Senior High School
Address
2800 Snowden Avenue
Long Beach, California 90815
United States
Coordinates 33°48′28″N 118°06′38″W / 33.8078°N 118.1106°W / 33.8078; -118.1106Coordinates: 33°48′28″N 118°06′38″W / 33.8078°N 118.1106°W / 33.8078; -118.1106
Information
Type Public
Motto Pathway To Excellence And Integrity
Established 1956
School district Long Beach Unified School District
Superintendent Christopher J. Steinhauser
Co-Principals Alejandro Vega Ed.d.
Michael Navia
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 3,753[1] (2014–15)
Campus Suburban
Color(s)      Blue
     Gold
Athletics conference Moore League
Mascot Robbie and Millie Ram
Team name Rams
Website
Robert Millikan

Robert A. Millikan Senior High School is a high school in Long Beach, California, United States, administered by the Long Beach Unified School District. It is located near the intersection of Spring Street and Palo Verde Avenue in the Los Altos neighborhood of East Long Beach on a 36-acre campus. As of the 2007-2008 school year, Millikan High School had 4,500 students. Millikan is an AP school and does not offer IB courses.

Eponym

Millikan High School is named after the Nobel Prize winner Robert Andrews Millikan.

Academies

Millikan is separated into five small learning communities (SLC's) each specializing in different fields. They all have different paths for success and different requirements to enter.

COMPASS

  • The COMPASS (Community of Musicians, Performers, Artists, and Social Scientists) Academy is a smaller learning community designed to prepare students for college by engaging them in a program that integrates core curriculum with the social sciences and the arts. This program places great emphasis on standards-based instruction while helping students to connect learning with real-world situations. COMPASS is also in charge of the school's literary arts magazine, Visions. COMPASS is known throughout the Long Beach area as a leading arts program in public high schools.

MIT

  • Formally known as Global Technology, MIT (Millikan Integrated Technology) is a four-year college preparatory program emphasizing computer applications and technology. The academy offers a college preparatory education that provides the foundation for students to either enter college or be competitive in the world of work. Students take technology classes such as Cisco Networking, Web Page Design, Architectural Design, Graphic Design & Print Making, Computer Systems, and Computer Systems Forensics. The MIT academy has recently also partnered with the NAF Organization, in an effort to provide students opportunities in real world job scenarios within Information Technology.

MBA

  • (Millikan Business Academy) promotes life skills and college-preparedness with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, marketing, enterprise, and financial independence.

PEACE

  • (Personal success through Empowerment, Academic achievement, Character education, and Ethics in action) is an academy that engages such programs as stimulations (Contemporary World Project, International Negotiations and Panopticon Role Playing), hands-on learning, community service, and field experience.

QUEST

  • (Questioning, Understanding, Engaging, - Success through Technology), is a GATE magnet for gifted honors students. QUEST students commit to a four-year, college preparatory program that encourages diversity of thought and scholarly endeavor. The academic independence of QUEST Scholars culminates in a self-directed Senior Project. The curriculum includes accelerated, honors, and a minimum of five Advanced Placement (AP) classes and exams. QUEST students are supported in post-secondary planning through counseling and an academic portfolio. In addition to academic studies, QUEST students are participants in campus extra- and co-curricular activities.

AVID

AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a support program for highly motivated students that works in conjunction with other Millikan programs to prepare students for attendance at a college or university. The AVID program involves students with a group of peers and adults who share a commitment to academic achievement and who work together to help the group succeed. The AVID elective teacher fills the roles of teacher, academic coach, and mentor. AVID is an elective course of study taught within the school day, and so the teacher has regular contact with AVID students throughout the school year.

In addition to the AVID program, students are given the opportunity to be tutored by college undergraduate and graduate students who major in math, science, history, English, etc.

Its mission is to prepare students for college by offering rigorous academic classes and by fostering good study habits, visiting a variety of universitiss throughout the four year long program, as well as helping students navigate the college and scholarship application process.

The AVID program grants special consideration to groups underrepresented in college, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and to students who will be the first in their family to attend college.

AVID is an international program, and as of June 2001, adopted by over 1,200 schools in 21 states and 14 countries.

Choral music

The choral program consists of six courses: Cecillian Singers 1–2 which is a freshman girls class (also called Choraleers); Varsity Chorale 1–8, a freshman boys class; Voice, a small class concentrating on vocal solos; Cecillian Singers 3–8, an intermediate girls class; Concert Choir 1–8, a large, advanced, Co-Ed group of male and female vocalists; and Vocal Ensemble, the most prevalent class in the choral program consisting of Millikan's top eight male and top eight female vocalists: four basses, four tenors, four altos, and four sopranos.

Instrumental Music

The instrumental music program consists of Gold Jazz Band, Blue Jazz Band, Symphonic Winds, Concert Band, Marching Band, Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphonic Orchestra.

Each year the music ensembles compete in festivals throughout the United States. In recent years Millikan musicians have traveled to compete in festivals in San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Reno. In the spring of 2006, the Symphonic Orchestra performed in a national festival at the Historic Boston Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.

Athletics

Millikan teams include Cross Country, Tennis, Badminton, Water Polo, Dance, Football, Colorguard, Golf, Surf, Marching Band, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, Wrestling, Baseball, Gymnastics, Swim, Softball, Track, and Cheer.[2] Some sports are co-ed while others are not. 2018 marked the first year for a female to score a point for the Millikan Rams varsity football.[3]

Newspaper

Millikan's newspaper is the Corydon.[4] It has been running since 2005.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Millikan High". NCES. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ https://lbmillikan.schoolloop.com/Athletics
  3. ↑ https://www.presstelegram.com/2017/08/30/millikans-chloe-robinson-makes-history-as-first-female-player-to-score-point-for-rams/
  4. ↑ https://lbmillikan.schoolloop.com/Corydon
  5. ↑ Baiotto, Brian (June 12, 2008). "Bierbrodt hopes the Armada will be a stepping stone back to the major leagues". Long Beach Press-Telegram. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  6. ↑ ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie': Where Are They Now?
  7. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8078479/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  8. ↑ "Soben Huon: MISS UTAH USA 2006" Archived 2006-04-12 at the Wayback Machine.; URL accessed March 21, 2006
  9. ↑ Pleskoff, Bernie (November 4, 2012). "Astros' Singleton shows star potential in AFL". MLB.com. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  10. ↑ Biography on The Baseball Cube
  11. ↑ Lee, Kirby. "Tully honored by Pole Vault Hall". Long Beach Press-Telegram. Archived from the original on 2013-06-28.
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