'''HUNTINGTON PARK'''

is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 58,114, down from 61,348 at the 2000 census.

HISTORY

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Named for prominent industrialist Henry Huntington, Huntington Park was incorporated in 1906 as a streetcar suburb for workers in the rapidly expanding industries to the southeast of downtown Los Angeles. (To this day, about 30% of its residents work at factories in nearby Vernon and Commerce.) The stretch of Pacific Boulevard in downtown Huntington Park was a major commercial district serving the city's largely working-class residents, as well as those of neighboring cities such as Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, and Downey. As with most of the other cities along the corridor stretching along the Los Angeles River to the south and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park was an almost exclusively white community during most of its history; Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue, which were fiercely defended segregation lines in the 1950s, separated it from black areas.
The changes that shaped Los Angeles from the late 1970s onward—the decline of American manufacturing that began in the 1970s; the rapid growth of newer suburbs in Orange County, the eastern San Gabriel, western San Fernando and Conejo valleys; the collapse of the aerospace and defense industry at the end of the Cold War; and the implosion of the Southern California real estate boom in the early 1990s—resulted in the wholesale departure of virtually all of the white population of Huntington Park by the mid-1990s. The vacuum was filled almost entirely by two groups of Latinos: upwardly mobile families eager to leave the barrios of East Los Angeles, and recent Mexican immigrants. Today, Pacific Boulevard is once again a thriving commercial strip, serving once again as a major retail center for working-class residents of southeastern Los Angeles County—but unlike its previous heyday of the 1930s, the signs along the avenue's storefronts are now primarily in Spanish.

GEOGRAPHY

Huntington Park is located at Interwiki: Coord » 33|58|57|N|118|13|3|W|type:city (33.982364, -118.217381).Interwiki: GR » 1
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of Interwiki: convert » 3.0|sqmi|km2, all land.
Cities surrounding Huntington Park include Bell, Cudahy, Los Angeles, Maywood, South Gate, and Vernon. In addition unincorporated areas, including Florence-GrahamWalnut Park, are adjacent to Huntington Park.

DEMOGRAPHICS

Category: Image - :Huntingtonparkdowntown.jpg|thumb|right|Pedestrians on the Pacific Boulevard shopping district

EDUCATION

Huntington Park is zoned to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Public elementary schools that serve the city include:

• Hope Street Elementary School (Huntington Park) (Opened 2005
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• Huntington Park New Elementary School 7 (Opened 2006
  http://www.laschools.org/project-status/one-project?project_number=47.03101 Laschools.org
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• Middleton Elementary School (Huntington Park) and Middleton New Primary Center (K)
• Miles Elementary School (Huntington Park)
• Pacific Boulevard School (Huntington Park, Opened 2005
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• San Antonio Elementary School (Huntington Park)
• Walnut Park Elementary School (Huntington Park)
• Huntington Park New Elementary #3 (Huntington Park, opening soon)
• Huntington Park College-Ready Academy High School
• Aspire: Antonio Maria Lugo Academy
• Aspire: Titan Academy
• Aspire: Junior Collegiate Academy

Aspire Public Schools
Public middle schools include:

• Gage Middle School (Huntington Park)
• Nimitz Middle School (Huntington Park)
• Centennial College Preparatory Academy

Most residents are zoned to Huntington Park High School. Some residents of Huntington Park are zoned to Bell High School in Bell, and some areas are jointly zoned to both schools. Any student who lives in the Bell or Huntington Park zones may apply to Maywood Academy High School in Maywood; Maywood Academy, which opened in 2005 and moved into its permanent campus in 2006, does not have its own attendance boundary because it lacks American football, track and field, and tennis facilities.
San Antonio Continuation School and Huntington Park College Ready Academy (a public charter school) also serve the high school population. Some parts of Huntington Park are zoned to both Huntington Park and Bell High School.
The groundbreaking for South Region High School 7 in Huntington Park occurred in 2010. The school will open in 2012.
In addition Pacific Boulevard Special Education Center (ungraded) is in the city.
Private schools include:

• Church of the Nazarene School (K-6)
• St. Matthias Elementary School (K-8)
• California InterAmerican High School (Ungraded)

TRANSPORTATION

Bus services are provided by both the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), and Huntington Park's own COMBI [http://www.huntingtonpark.org/index.aspx?NID=232] bus service.


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