San Gabriel High School

History

In 1955, San Gabriel High School began. It has been open with a couple of new buildings being built since then.

Principals

• Arthur H. Kruger (1955–1971)
• R. Reed Channell (1971–1975)
• Elizabeth C. Luttrell (1975–1977)
• Jack B. Mount (1977–1996)
• Linda Marryott (1996–1998)
• Barbara Randolph (1998–2000)
• Alex Ayala (2000–2004)
• Marsha Gilbert (2004–2007)
• Jim Schofield (2007–2015)
• Debbie Stone (2015-2024)
• Jocelyn Castro (2024–Present)

Academics

Students of San Gabriel High should complete 220 credits in order to graduate. San Gabriel offers 15 Advanced Placement (AP) courses including: English language, English literature, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, World History, US History, American Government, Chemistry, Biology, Physics 1, Psychology, Spanish language, Chinese language, and Art History.

San Gabriel High School has been accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges—for the first time in 1966 and most recently in 2022, for a fixed term after each evaluation.

Athletics

Football

The San Gabriel Football Team won a CIF Division 13 Championship in 2022. The football team was also CIF Division 14 runner ups in 2024.

Cross country

The San Gabriel Cross Country team took 4th in State in 1991, led by a Cross Country champion, Angel Martinez.

School demographics

The school has 2,429 students and 76 full-time teachers. The ethnic composition of San Gabriel High School is 57.1% Asian, 41% Hispanic, 1% White, 1% Two or More Races, 0.2% African American, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

1988 hostage incident

Jeffrey Lyne Cox, a senior at San Gabriel High School, took an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to school on April 26, 1988, and held a humanities class of about 60 students hostage for over 30 minutes. Cox held the gun to one student when the teacher doubted Cox would cause harm and stated that he would prove it to her. At that time three students escaped out a rear door and were fired upon. Cox was later tackled and disarmed by another student. A friend of Cox's told the press that Cox had been inspired by the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 hijacking and by the Stephen King novel Rage, which Cox had read over and over again and with which he strongly identified. After the jury deadlocked, Cox pleaded no contest to charges of kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon—both of which are felony offenses. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

Notable alumni

• Roy Conli, Academy Award winning producer
• George Dyer, football coach
• Bill Fisk, football coach
• John Grabow, MLB pitcher
• Felicia Hano, artistic gymnast
• David Henry Hwang, dramatist
• Candy Johnson, singer and dancer
• Mike Krukow, MLB pitcher, commentator
• Steve Martini, legal thriller author
• Sylvia Mosqueda, Distance Runner
• C. Rob Orr, All-American/Pan Am Games medalist-swimmer; coach

References

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