History
Helix Charter High School opened in January 1952 to relieve record enrollment of 3000 at Grossmont High School. In November 1950, East County voters overwhelmingly approved a local bond issue for $1.9 million that financed “the University Avenue high school.” Compared to West Hills High School built in 1988 at cost of $22 million. Grossmont would remain on double sessions for two more semesters until Helix opened in January 1952.
When Helix first opened it received half of Grossmont's students due to the double session. 1500 students attended school in the morning and 1500 students attended school in the afternoon. As a result of receiving half of Grossmont's students, Helix was becoming overcrowded itself. This resulted in plans to build and open El Cajon Valley High School four years after the opening of Helix High School.
Read more about this topic: Helix High School
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more”
—John Adams (1735–1826)
“It is true that this man was nothing but an elemental force in motion, directed and rendered more effective by extreme cunning and by a relentless tactical clairvoyance .... Hitler was history in its purest form.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)