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  2. Garfield High School (California) - Wikipedia

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    James A. Garfield High School is a year-round public high school founded in 1925 in East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California. At Garfield, 38% of students participate in advanced placement programs. Approximately 93% of the student population comes from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited financial or ...

  3. Jaime Escalante - Wikipedia

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    Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.

  4. Clarence Acox Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Clarence Acox is an American band director and jazz drummer. He is a native of New Orleans, and has been heard in a variety of settings in the Pacific Northwest.. He is the former director of jazz bands at Garfield High School, [1] where he has taught since arriving from Southern University in Baton Rouge in 1971, initially hired to rejuvenate the school's marching bands.

  5. Garfield High School - Wikipedia

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    Garfield High School may refer to: Garfield High School (Akron, Ohio) Garfield High School (New Jersey), Garfield, Bergen County, New Jersey; Garfield High School (California), in East Los Angeles, California; James A. Garfield High School (Garrettsville, Ohio) Garfield High School (Seattle), Washington

  6. Garfield High School (Seattle) - Wikipedia

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    James A. Garfield High School was founded in 1920 as East High School at its current location. [3] The first graduating class consisted of 282 students who transferred from Broadway High School. In three years, the school's enrollment forced the 12-room building to be scrapped for the Jacobean-style building designed by Floyd Naramore. In 1929 ...

  7. Garfield High School (New Jersey) - Wikipedia

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    The school was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's 2014 rankings of the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. [6] The school had been ranked 321st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 286th in 2010 out of 322 schools ...

  8. Jim Davis (cartoonist) - Wikipedia

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    While attending Fairmount High School in 1959, Davis joined the staff of his school's newspaper The Breeze, where he eventually became Art Editor. This is where Davis's first comic was featured, apparently inspired by school life. Davis also drew the majority of the illustrations for his 1963 senior yearbook, reusing the same characters. [4] [5]

  9. Tony Harris (basketball, born 1970) - Wikipedia

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    Harris attended Garfield High School in Seattle and played for Washington State University.While at Garfield, his team made the state finals, and, while at WSU, the team reached the east regionals of the NCAA tournament.