Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School

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 (Small Learning Community–SLC): 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). 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: == 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. During the first season of the television series Glee (TV series), the school was regularly masked as William McKinley High School. ==References==