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Mark Keppel High School

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    • 501 E. Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, California, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers: (626) 572-2242
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• History & Memorable Moments

Mark Keppel High School is named for Dr. Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902 to 1928. ^[1]

Construction of Mark Keppel High School started December 19, 1938, three days after the ground-breaking ceremonies. The school was just one of thousands of projects built by the Public Works Administration during the Great Depression, but this was one that the cities of Monterey Park, Alhambra, the Alhambra High School District, and the unincorporated Wilmar section of Los Angeles County would be proud to call their own. ^[1]

The Mark Keppel student body has long been characterized as a harmonious, hard working group of multi-cultural and multi-racial students from the surrounding communities. Since its inception, Mark Keppel High has been in competition with cross-town rival Alhambra High, which always seemed to enjoy “favorite-son” status with the Alhambra community and school district. ^[1]

Mark Keppel High has been through it all: the austerity and uncertainty of the Great Depression and World War II, the prosperity, hot rods and slicked back hair of the 1950s, the civil unrest and Counterculture of the 1960s, the globalization and self-absorption of the 1970s, the White Flight in the 1980s, and a redrawing of the feeder-school lines in the mid-1990s. ^[1]

The redrawing of the feeder-school lines has had a profound effect on MKHS; the elementary school students of the Highlands area of Monterey Park were re-routed from Alhambra High to Mark Keppel High. Some concerned parents banded together and formed the Mark Keppel High School Alliance to lobby the Alhambra School District to improve conditions, renovate the aging campus, and to advocate for the school community. ^[1]

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