Millikan High School

Robert A. Millikan Senior High School is a high school in Long Beach, California, United States, administered by the Long Beach Unified School District. It is located near the intersection of Spring Street and Palo Verde Avenue in the Los Altos neighborhood of East Long Beach on a 36-acre campus. As of the 2007–2008 school year, Millikan High School had 4,500 students. Millikan is an AP school and does not offer IB courses.

Robert A. Millikan
Senior High School
Address
2800 Snowden Avenue

Long Beach
,
California
90815

United States
Coordinates33.8078°N 118.1106°W / 33.8078; -118.1106
Information
TypePublic
MottoPathway To Excellence And Integrity
Established1956
School districtLong Beach Unified School District
SuperintendentDr. Jill Baker
Co-PrincipalsAlejandro Vega
Teaching staff141.94 (FTE)[1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment3,529 (2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio24.86[1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)  Blue
  Gold
Athletics conferenceMoore League
MascotRobbie and Millie Ram
Team nameRams
Website
Robert Millikan

Eponym

Millikan High School is named after the Nobel Prize winner Robert Andrews Millikan.

Academies

Millikan is separated into five small learning communities (SLC's) each specializing in different fields. They all have different paths for success and different requirements to enter.

COMPASS

The COMPASS (Community of Musicians, Performers, Artists, and Social Scientists) Academy is a smaller learning community designed to prepare students for college by engaging them in a program that integrates core curriculum with the social sciences and the arts. This program places emphasis on standards-based instruction while helping students to connect learning with real-world situations. COMPASS is also in charge of the school's literary arts magazine, Visions.

MBA

(Millikan Business Academy) promotes life skills and college-preparedness with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, marketing, enterprise, and financial independence.

PEACE

(Personal success through Empowerment, Academic achievement, Character education, and Ethics in action) is an academy that engages such programs as stimulations (Contemporary World Project, International Negotiations and Panopticon Role Playing), hands-on learning, community service, and field experience.

QUEST

(Questioning, Understanding, Engaging, - Success through Technology), is a GATE magnet for gifted honors students. QUEST students commit to a four-year, college preparatory program that encourages diversity of thought and scholarly endeavor. The academic independence of QUEST Scholars culminates in a self-directed Senior Project. The curriculum includes accelerated, honors, and a minimum of five Advanced Placement (AP) classes and exams. QUEST students are supported in post-secondary planning through counseling and an academic portfolio. In addition to academic studies, QUEST students are participants in campus extra- and co-curricular activities.

SEGA

Millikan's newly designed Software Engineering and Gaming Academy is a four-year college preparatory program emphasizing computer applications, programming and game design. The academy offers a college preparatory education, including AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A, which provides the foundation for students to enter college and/or become certified to be competitive in the world of work. Formerly known as MIT (Millikan Integrated Technology), and previous to that, Global Technology.

AVID

The school uses the program AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) to prepare students for attendance at a college or university.[2]

Choral music

The choral program consists of six courses: Choraleers Singers 1–2 which is a freshman girls class; Varsity Chorale 1–8, a freshman boys class; Cecillian Singers 3–8, an intermediate girls class; Concert Choir 1–8, a large, advanced, Co-Ed group of vocalists consisting of 100 singers; Vocal Point, a jazz and a cappella female group, sung on microphone; and Vocal Ensemble, the Co-Ed equivalent of Vocal Point.

Instrumental Music

The instrumental music program consists of Gold Jazz Band, Blue Jazz Band, Symphonic Winds, Concert Band, Marching Band, Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphonic Orchestra.

Each year the music ensembles compete in festivals throughout the United States. In recent years Millikan musicians have traveled to compete in festivals in San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Reno. In the spring of 2006, the Symphonic Orchestra performed in a national festival at the Historic Boston Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.

Athletics

Millikan teams include Cross Country, Tennis, Badminton, Water Polo, Dance, Football, Colorguard, Golf, Surf, Marching Band, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, Wrestling, Baseball, Gymnastics, Swim, Softball, Track, Water polo, Lacrosse, and Cheer [3]Some sports are co-ed while others are not. 2018 marked the first year for a female to score a point for the Millikan Rams varsity football.[4]

Newspaper

Millikan's newspaper is the Corydon.[5] It has been running since 1957.

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Millikan High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  2. Totty, Kalaisha (14 February 2019). "Millikan Teaching Personal Financial to Students". Beachcomber. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  3. "ATHLETIC INFORMATION". lbmillikan.schoolloop.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. "Millikan's Chloe Robinson makes history as first female player to score point for Rams". Press Telegram. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  5. "Corydon Newspaper". lbmillikan.schoolloop.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  6. Baiotto, Brian (June 12, 2008). "Bierbrodt hopes the Armada will be a stepping stone back to the major leagues". Long Beach Press-Telegram. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  7. "Mike Gallo Stats". Baseball-Reference.com.
  8. "Soben Huon: MISS UTAH USA 2006" Archived 2006-04-12 at the Wayback Machine; URL accessed March 21, 2006
  9. Pleskoff, Bernie (November 4, 2012). "Astros' Singleton shows star potential in AFL". MLB.com. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  10. Biography on The Baseball Cube
  11. Lee, Kirby. "Tully honored by Pole Vault Hall". Long Beach Press-Telegram. Archived from the original on 2013-06-28.
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