BURBANK HIGH 2ND AT MEET.Byline: Steve Carney Daily News Staff Writer Burbank High School Burbank High School may refer to:
The ``Super Quiz'' competition at Morningside High School Morningside High is a high school in Inglewood, California. In popular culture In 1993, Wesley Snipes narrated the documentary, Hardwood Dreams, following five MHS seniors during their last high school basketball season as they dream of the NBA. featured student teams from Los Angeles County schools not within the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . El Rancho High in Pico Rivera took first place with 48 out of a possible 60 points, said Rick de la Torre, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Burbank and Palos Verdes Peninsula high schools tied for second with 46 points each, while West High School of Torrance finished next with 45. The overall Academic Decathlon will be announced Thursday at a luncheon in the Quiet Canyon Country Club in Montebello. In a parallel competition at Los Angeles Southwest College  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Los Angeles High School Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are blue and white and the teams are called the Romans. won the Super Quiz among LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) schools. The top teams from the LAUSD and Los Angeles County competitions will travel to Stockton for the state finals March 14-16 at University of the Pacific. The winner of that competition will represent California at the U.S. Academic Decathlon, scheduled for April 15-18 at California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as CSUF, CSU Fullerton, or Cal State Fullerton, is a part of the California State University system. The University is located in the city of Fullerton, California, in northern Orange County. . In 17 years, the LAUSD winner has gone on to win 10 state titles, five national championships, four second-place trophies and one fourth-place ranking. The Super Quiz, the last in a grueling series of 10 Academic Decathlon contests, consisted of a 40-question written test and a fast-moving team response to oral questions. The teams answered multiple-choice questions on this year's topic, ``The Brain: Looking Inward.'' The Academic Decathlon, inspired by the ancient Greek athletic games, is designed to recognize students for their academic achievements. City News Service and Daily News Staff Writer Lisa Weiss contributed to this story. |
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