Granada Hills Charter High School

Granada Hills Charter High School is an independent charter school consisting of over 4,200 students in grades 9–12, located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Granada Hills. It currently holds the record as the top comprehensive public senior high school in Los Angeles and the largest charter school in the nation. Granada also has a high Academic Performance Index score of 878, which greatly exceeds the target API score of 800 for all schools in California. On April 12, 2011, Granada was named a 2011 California Distinguished School. On December 22, 2011, Granada became an International Baccalaureate World School. Since 2011, the school has won five National Academic Decathlon Championships.HistoryGranada Hills High School is a comprehensive public high school, founded in 1960 as part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).In the 1970-1971 and 1971-72 school years, Granada Hills High had the largest student body of any high school in the United States. The school was relieved by the 1971 opening of Kennedy High School.In 1994, the school opened a LAUSD magnet school with emphasis in math, science and technology in conjunction with the California State University at Northridge. In 2003, the school was awarded charter status which granted it fiscal and instructional autonomy.In 2003 the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to allow the school to become a charter, making it the largest charter school in the United States. The school administration asked for a charter status since being directly operated the district limited its fundraising opportunities, and it also was against LAUSD funding cuts.