University High School
11800 Texas Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025

University High School is located on the border of West Los Angeles and Santa Monica, and draws a diverse student body ranging from all areas of the socioeconomic ladder and all colors of humanity. Uni High frequently sends its graduating seniors to Ivy League schools, Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford, among other large and small prestigious colleges across the US.

University High was founded in 1924 as Warren G. Harding High School, but was renamed when the combination scandals of the Harding administration scandal and the founding of UCLA precipitated the change. The University High athletes had chosen the Warrior, a Native American image, as its mascot; Recently, they have changed (after I graduated in 1997) its mascot to the Wildcat.

University High School is located in Parkville, an inner suburb of Melbourne. In Australia, one attends high or secondary school from year 7 to year 12. About 1,160 students attend Uni High, most of whom live in the local area.

The school was founded in 1910 but did not move to its current location until 1930. It has always been co-educational and affiliated with the University of Melbourne. Although a public school, it is best known for its accelerated learning program for students who pass a special examination held in the last year of primary school. These students have considerably more flexibility in what they study and complete high school in five years rather than the normal six.

However, the good reputation the school once enjoyed due to this program is now largely extinct, due to cuts in funding. The school's reputation is now rather unsavoury thanks to well publicised but relatively minor schoolyard brawling between ethnic groups.

Uni High has a website: http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/.