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.

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School
Location
2001 Santa Fe Avenue 33.79374°N 118.21761°W / 33.79374; -118.21761 Long Beach , California USA
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Success in the West! Pride of the Westside!
Established	1996
School district	Long Beach Unified School District
Principal	My Ngoc Nguyen
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,721 (2023–2024)[1]
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Green   Black   White
Mascot	Jaguar
Team name	JAGS
Website	https://cabrillo.lbschools.net/

Ethnic composition as of 2020–21

Race and ethnicity[2]	Total
Hispanic or Latino	75.1%
Asian	11.7%
African American	8.5%
Pacific Islander	1.8%
Other	1.6%
Non-Hispanic White/Anglo	1.2%
Native American	0.1%

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 grade eleven and twelve grade. After their requests were made, Cabrillo High School graduated their first class with approximately 74 students receiving their high school diplomas in 1999. ^[3]

Academics

Throughout the years, Cabrillo has seen tremendous instructional changes through multiple 'house' pathways or (Small Learning Community–SLC): ^[4]

Cabrillo Academy of Global Logistics (AGL)

Cabrillo Academy of Law and Justice (CAL-J)

Cabrillo Engineering and Design (CED)

Specialized Academy of Compute Media, Arts & Animation (SACMAA)

These SLC's provide Cabrillo students with more options after high school—ranging from college to military (NJROTC) 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 (54 alumni), UC Santa Barbara (5 alumni), and Cal State Dominguez Hills (3 alumni).^[5][6] 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.^[7][8] Admissions at private universities are sparse, but enrollments have occurred at USC and Cal Lutheran.^[9] Below are admissions tables derived from the University of California and California State University for the Class of 2021:

University of California[5] Institution Applied Admitted Enrolled Berkeley 0 0 0 Davis 0 0 0 Irvine 55 6 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 Merced 16 13 0 Riverside 0 0 0 San Diego 30 4 0 Santa Barbara 19 15 5 Santa Cruz 0 0 0

California State University (SoCal)[6] Institution Applied Admitted Enrolled Bakersfield 13 11 0 Channel Islands 2 2 0 Dominguez Hills 73 69 3 Fullerton 67 29 1 Long Beach 134 108 54 Los Angeles 35 33 0 Northridge 8 8 0 Pomona 40 16 1 San Bernardino 3 3 0 San Diego 29 10 0 San Luis Obispo 16 2 0 San Marcos 5 4 0

California State University (NorCal)[6] Institution Applied Admitted Enrolled Chico 5 4 0 East Bay 3 1 0 Fresno 3 2 0 Humboldt 2 2 0 Maritime 0 0 0 Monterey Bay 0 0 0 Sacramento 1 1 0 San Francisco 14 9 1 San Jose 5 5 0 Sonoma 1 1 0 Stanislaus 0 0 0

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.

Andrea Itson (Assistant Principal)

Nancy Freihaut (Head Counselor)

R. Lisa Wholey (CED Counselor 9)

Joel Lovelace (CAL-J/SACMAA Counselor Grade 9)

Karen Kim (CED Counselor Grades 10-12)

John Tran (AGL Counselor Grades 10-12)

Viseth Vann (SACMAA Counselor Grades 10-12)

Luz Romero (CAL-J Counselor Grades 10-12)

Trivia

The school was used as the location for one of the opening scenes from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.^[10]

During the first season of the television series Glee (TV series), the school was regularly masked as William McKinley High School.^[11][12]