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Birmingham Community Charter High School

3.5 (31 reviews)

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Michael L.

As stated in another review this is where the rich kids go, well rich parents and their kids. Hey nothing wrong with being rich.. But this review of the school I went to, not the current version. It was an old military hospital before it became a high school. The buildings and I do mean buildings a lot of them were spread out and connected for the most part with long wooden halls with many windows. It was such a unique place to be. It is too bad it is now just another school. If this were a review on the folks I went to school with it would have been a minus five. God you people were horrible. I hated every tortuous moment of it. The history of Birmingham; In 1943 the United States Government broke ground for an army hospital on land which was then a part of Petit Ranch in the center of a 160-acre Lima bean and carrot patch. The government constructed buildings that would house soldiers being returned home for medical care from the European and Pacific theaters of war. The swimming pool was built in 1947 as a therapeutic and recreational aid for recovering veterans. By direction of the Secretary of War, Birmingham General Hospital was named in honor of the late Brigadier General Henry Patrick Birmingham in 1943. After several years of activity, the United States Government abandoned the grounds and the buildings remained empty until 1952. As a result of population expansion in the San Fernando Valley, the 63.8-acre tract that is now the campus was reassigned as a temporary school site. Birmingham Junior High School was formed on February 4, 1953 at the campus of Van Nuys Junior High. It moved to the present campus on April 7, 1953. Originally a junior high school, the school expanded into a six-year school until February 1963, when Mullholland Junior High opened a new facility on the adjacent land. The ninth grade became a part of Birmingham High School in the fall semester of 1984 when reconfiguration changed the enrollment to a grade 9-12 school. The Communicatons Technology magnet high school was opened in 1994. In the fall of 2004, High Tech Charter High School will open on the south side of campus replacing the five unused vocational shop buildings. The Birmingham High School residential attendance area includes parts of the communities of Encino, Reseda, Van Nuys, Northridge, and Lake Balboa. In addition to the residential area, traveling students from the District Voluntary Integration Program and Satellite Zone Program attend Birmingham High School. Birmingham also receives students from over-crowded schools through the Capacity Adjustment Program and through Open Enrollment permits on a space available basis. The present Birmingham High School plant is a result of a three-phase building program, which has seen the replacement of all the original structures, with the exception of the old gym, now part of the multipurpose room and cafeteria, and the swimming pool. During the years 2000-2004 the interior and exterior of all campus buildings, arcades, and walls were repainted. Additional repairs included new roofing for all buildings and air conditioning schoolwide. In the fall of 2004, Birmingham will open High Tech High-Los Angeles.

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Julian V.

This is the best highschool on the left side of the Mississippi River. Over 250 cameras and security to make sure everyone is safe. We're known for best teams for sports. The campus is beautiful and clean . Overall this is a great school

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Kenneth B.

This review is for the aquatic center /pool area only. My kid attends it for more than a year and he is pretty happy. I am also glad that this pool is large enough to accommodate many teams of different age categories. Couches are great and watchful, paying attention to each kid and ensuring that kids perform.

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Excellent school! I graduated a Birmingham Brave 1996 and still have my letterman jacket with the brave on it!

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As a student, the school needs more teachers. 3,000+ students is making its impact on class size.

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2.4(9 reviews)
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Solid 4/5, being a first year of high school…read more This school is known for its small capability and territory, though a good ratio of students to teachers. The classes that the school provides for its first year is alright, but could be improved, by asking students what they willing to learn. Math, English and Spanish is a great periods that you would have, but the rest - digital art, computer science, and the most "doubtful" is ancient civilisations. Digital art provides students with a small peace of information, and though gives a lot of opportunities to open yourself in this topic is great, but it has a lack of useful information that the teacher needs to tell to students. But mostly, it's you just researching how to do "this and that" material. Computer science is a great way to start your experience with coding, and has a lot of material how to code, create a game and etc. Ancient civilisations, is a period where you expect it to be something interesting about the history of the past, such as different continents, how did the people were lived in the part and etc. BUT, the teacher gives a social studies material, and would be the best at jt. But yet still, no. It's a lot of water information that you would forget in the few weeks. And of course me, being very interested and fired up, wanted to learn history, upsets me. This kind of class does not suppose to hold "ancient civilisations" name at its first profile. I hope that my opinion will change in the future 3 years of school, and I could leave a solid 5 star rating.

2014 alumni & I have nothing but good reviews for HTLA. It's focused on college-prep and…read moretransitioning into the "real world" outside of education which is amazing. Staff is wonderful -- caring & supportive. Many pros of being a small charter high school located in the valley -- smaller staff to student ratio which is always a plus. It provides education on a more personal level where all your teachers know you and your strengths and weaknesses and thus are able to cater to provide exceptional academic support. HTLA is the main reason I was able to get accepted to UCLA straight out of high school (unlike many of my peers from other schools). They set up a great foundation for you and are with you during every step of your academic journey in order to help you achieve your goals. 11 years later & looking back, I might have changed some things in my life, but my choice in high schools is definitely not one of them.

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I can't say enough good things about this school. It is a school for students with learning…read moredisabilities, such as dyslexia. It is absolutely life changing. There is so much thoughtfulness and care put into every decision made. The teachers and staff absolutely know my child inside and out. I used to get these calls from my kid at school - she was upset, stressed, having a hard day. Now - I never ever get a call like that. (If you know, you know) I had no idea how hard my daughter's days were at regular school. She was always grumpy and anxious. After the first day at Westmark she was lighthearted, happy! I forgot she could be that way! Her confidence in her academic abilities is growing all the time there. I wish I would have moved her there sooner. It is truly a remarkable place. Every teacher (even like science and PE!) are trained in teaching kids with learning differences. My daughter gets support ALL DAY long, not just during the few minutes she was pulled out before. If your child has a learning difference, I really recommend you go see the school - it is hard to describe how amazing and transformative it is.

This school says what they do and does what they say. Westmark has been a safe space for many…read morechildren with learning differences since 1983. If it's not the right school environment for a child, or family, they will be honest. They have changed my daughter's life and given her the skills to transition into her choice of universities. The staff and administration have a child-first approach, while teaching students to be their own advocates. An added perk for high schoolers, Westmark's talented college advisor! She goes above and beyond in her dedication to the juniors and seniors.

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2.7(20 reviews)
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This has been a great school for the last 20 years! I went to this school from 1991 to 1995…read more Having emigrated only 3 weeks before school started, I did not speak or understand much English at all, and I was placed in ESL classes. Thanks to great teachers and a caring and encouraging counselor (Mrs. McDonald), I was able to learn English fast, and transfer to the honors program starting 11th grade. I ended up taking AP English and Honors English 11 simultaneously in the 12th grade! I graduated taking all my A through G UC required classes, and got accepted into several UCs and Cal States. And once at UC San Diego, I was able to keep up and even graduate with honors with a major and two minors. And why did UCs want me, despite my low SAT verbal score? It was thanks to the abundance of clubs and activities that I was involved with at Reseda High. There were so many clubs at this school, you had your pick of several for each day of the week. And teachers encouraged students to join things, like a very active student cabinet, journalism, a second newsletter put out by ESL students for ESL students, a great drama program, cheer, flag, all sorts of sports teams, choir, band, 18 different clubs, volunteering opportunities such as planting trees on earth day, and more. My ESL teacher (Mrs. Worman) encouraged me and my best friend to run for office and join Student Cabinet, and I am so grateful that we did. We ended up becoming very involved with a whole lot of things, not knowing that colleges would like that, but because teacher after teacher made it feel good to be involved. And now, long after high school I have remained involved wherever I go, because I learned the value of being involved. This school was full of very caring teachers and office staff, who went out of their way to engage and teach students. The only staff members I did not like were one Spanish teacher who could not control her class (Mrs. Swanson?) and the college counselor (Mrs. Stanzberry). She stuck out, because she was not friendly and was intimidating. The rest of the teachers I had were fantastic, especially the ones in the social science department (especially Mr. Kaz and Dr. Shaffer) and the ESL department. Now, years later, I have tracked some of these teachers down via facebook and we have become facebook friends. I was shocked that they even remembered me 18 years later. They tell me that they remember most of their students. And they do! They remember distinct things about personalities of my classmates and cousins who went to the same school. (Meanwhile, for the few months that I attended Taft High school, 2 teachers didn't even take the time to properly learn my name then, and I couldn't tell you any of their names either cause they did not connect with me in any way.) The campus was beautiful, complete with its own little forest at one end, and clean. The kids were nice, and inclusive. My lunch group looked like a mini united nations, complete with two white guys and a white girl who hung out with us Persians, Rumanians, Armenian, El Salvadorians, Mexicans, and Russian! And others came and went, hanging out with different groups on different days as they pleased. Because of this, I got plenty of opportunity to practice my conversational English, and people marveled at how well I spoke English for the amount of time I had been in the US. This could be because in some schools the culture is such that different races self-segregate and recent immigrants end up together with others who are not fluent in English and fluent in a different language so they speak to each other in that language. Me? I don't speak Rumanian or Armenian or Russian or Spanish. The only way to communicate for my lunch group was English. And now the there is a magnet program on campus too, and I hear that it is wonderful. My cousins went through the magnet program and loved it. Interestingly, most of their teachers were the same as I had. And for the relatively low socioeconomic neighborhood full of recent immigrants, Reseda high and its magnet have unusually high test scores, college admissions, and scholarship recipients. I attribute it to the school culture and the attentive teachers and staff who go above and beyond to pull kids up and encourage them to explore different avenues and apply for all sorts of different opportunities.

A 12 year old girl died on Feb 25, 2026 because the school did not take bullying seriously. Her…read morename was Khimberly and she was trying to help her older sister because she was also being bullied. I wonder who the teachers and principal are at this school. .... as caregivers they need to do better.

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