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Crescenta Valley received a Bravo Award for excellence in the arts from Los Angeles County in 2005. [2] CVHS was awarded again by the California Department of Education in 2019 with California Distinguished School with Exemplary Programs in Arts Education, and Physical Activity and Nutrition. [3]
CVHS is a California Distinguished School, [2] National Blue Ribbon Finalist, [2] and was ranked as number 488 in Newsweek's 2008 list of the top 1,300 high schools in the USA. [3] By this standard, CVHS falls in the top 2.5% of US high schools. [4]
Goorjian was born in Los Angeles, California, [1] on September 26, 1926 [2] [3] to Armenian parents who had survived the Armenian genocide. [4] He played basketball as a guard at Los Angeles High School and was selected to the All-Los Angeles City High School Third Team by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1945. [5]
The La Crescenta Woman's Club began in 1911, incorporated in 1923, and built its clubhouse in 1925. The structure, the social center of the valley for most of the last century, is the home for the organization's many charitable and social events. The La Crescenta Woman's Club is located at 4004 La Crescenta Avenue.
When the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board was formed in 1962, its first-designated sites were HCM #1 (Leonis Adobe) and HCM #2 (Bolton Hall), both located in the San Fernando/Crescenta Valleys. The oldest building in the Valley is the Convento Building at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España , which was built between 1808 and 1822.
In the 2007 season, after taking finalist in the Los Angeles Regional and winning the San Diego Regional, the team attended the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time in the team's history. The team would again attend the FIRST Championship in 2022 [9] and 2023, after winning the Los Angeles and Port Hueneme regionals ...
Valley Christian Schools (VCS) is a private Christian K-12 school located in Los Angeles County, California. It is one of the largest in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. It was founded in 1935 and has 4 campuses (preschool, elementary, middle and high school) enrolling more than 1,300 students.
Glendale High School was founded as Glendale Union High School in 1901 by the residents of the villages of Glendale, La Crescenta, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Ivanhoe, Tropico and West Glendale. The first classes were held at the Glendale Hotel. The first principal was Mr. Llewellyn Evans and the school had two teachers and 29 students.