Whittier High School only started with 47 students in 1900. As more school were opening around the area, the school became to be known as Whittier High School. Only five years after there was another building added which is not the center for WHS. The rapid influx of students led to the construction of a girls' gym, an administration building and an auditorium in 1923. The Long Beach earthquake in 1933 made most of the buildings unsafe to teach. Therefore classes where held in the basement or storage rooms in school. Following the years construction began to expand, there was now a boys gym. science building, dressing room, and cafeteria. The auditorium stood there, but was only recently reconstructed to put the library there. In 1952, the student enrollment was over 3,500. It was at this time that the District opened a new high school called El Rancho. Growth continued and in 1953, California High School opened, followed by Santa Fe in 1955, Sierra in 1957, Pioneer in 1959, La Serna in 1961, and Monte Vista in 1964.  |
| WHS in its early days |
Richard Nixon in 1933 was a student of Whittier High School. Many of the buildings that are in school are named after alumna's or members of the Cardinal community. Several moves where recorded here like the blockbuster 1985 Back to the Future, and the 1989 Back to the Future II. The cardinal is the school mascot since 1930. I am proud to say that I am a Red and White Cardinal.
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