Overview

This continuation school in Boyle Heights, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, had 76 students in 2015. The LAUSD web site defined this school type: "Continuation high schools are small campuses with low student-to-teacher ratios offering instruction to students between the ages of 16 and 18 who are deemed as risk of not completing their education." According to US News and World Reports Education rankings web site: "At Boyle Heights Continuation, the student body makeup is 55 percent male and 45 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 100 percent. Boyle Heights Continuation is 1 of 197 high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District." (See US News & World Reports Education, "Boyle Heights Continuation Overview," Accessed 02/0/2015.)

The region containing Boyle Heights was originally known as El Paredón Blanco (the White Bluffs), an agricultural domain of Claudio Lopez, who obtained the property in 09/1835. In 1858, an Irish American settler, Andrew Boyle, purchased acreage adjoining Paredon Blanco, creating a vineyard and farm on the land. Seventeen years later, Boyle's son-in-law, William H. Workman, interested two others--Isaias W. Hellman and John Lazzarovitch--in platting the "Boyle Heights" neighborhood, Hellman began his career as a merchant, later becoming head of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, an important lending institution in Southern CA, that lasted about 80 years. Originally, Boyle Heights consisted of a melange of residents, including the existing Latino population as well as recent Anglo, Jewish, Asian, and African American arrivals. During the last decade of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, anti-Semiitism in Germany, Russia and other Eastern European countries, drove many Jewish immigrants to the US and eventually to Boyle Heights; this created a thriving Jewish culture during the 1910s though the 1930s. The area continued to function as a diverse place until World War II, when many chose to leave what was a workingclass area. After the war, Latino-Americans again began to predominate here, forming a vibrant community that composed 94% of the area's population by 2015.

PCAD id: 19504