Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School


Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School is a high school in Long Beach, California. The school is a part of the Long Beach Unified School District.

History

In the Winter of 1996, the ground was broken for a new high school in West Long Beach. The school officially opened in September 1996 and only started with ninth and tenth grade and a student body of approximately 975 students. Since Cabrillo High School was still under construction at that time, the original plan for the school was that once students completed tenth grade, all students would be transferred to one of the other five comprehensive high schools to complete their secondary education. The tenth-grade students really liked Cabrillo so much that efforts made by the students and parents led the Cabrillo Administration and the LBUSD Board of Education to add eleven and twelve grades. After their requests were made, Cabrillo High School graduated their first class with approximately 74 students receiving their high school diplomas in 1999.

Academics

Throughout the years, Cabrillo has seen tremendous instructional changes through multiple 'house' pathways or :
Cabrillo Academy of Global Logistics
Cabrillo Academy of Law and Justice
Cabrillo Engineering and Design
Specialized Academy of Compute Media, Arts & Animation
These SLC's provide Cabrillo students with more options after high school—ranging from college to military and career opportunities.

College admissions

The Class of 2021 spans throughout California within the California State University and University of California system, although alumni especially committed to universities in Southern California. The most popular destinations within both systems are Long Beach State, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal State Dominguez Hills. Long Beach Cabrillo graduates are granted two years of free tuition at Long Beach City College, which has a dedicated Transfer Admission Guarantee resource center for transferring to the majority of UC and CSU Campuses. Admissions at private universities are sparse, but enrollments have occurred at USC and Cal Lutheran. Below are admissions tables derived from the University of California and California State University for the Class of 2021:
InstitutionAppliedAdmittedEnrolled
Berkeley000
Davis000
Irvine5560
Los Angeles000
Merced16130
Riverside000
San Diego3040
Santa Barbara19155
Santa Cruz000

InstitutionAppliedAdmittedEnrolled
Bakersfield13110
Channel Islands220
Dominguez Hills73693
Fullerton67291
Long Beach13410854
Los Angeles35330
Northridge880
Pomona40161
San Bernardino330
San Diego29100
San Luis Obispo1620
San Marcos540

InstitutionAppliedAdmittedEnrolled
Chico540
East Bay310
Fresno320
Humboldt220
Maritime000
Monterey Bay000
Sacramento110
San Francisco1491
San Jose550
Sonoma110
Stanislaus000

Counselors

The school has 4 pathways, therefore there are multiple counselors specific for each pathway. Two of the counselors manage 9th graders, and the rest manage 10-12th graders.
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Trivia

The school was used as the location for one of the opening scenes from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
During the first season of the television series Glee (TV series), the school was regularly masked as William McKinley High School.