Robert A. Millikan Senior High School is a high school in Long Beach, California, United States, administered by the Long Beach Unified School District. It is located near the intersection of Spring Street and Palo Verde Avenue in the Los Altos neighborhood of East Long Beach on a 36-acre campus. As of the 20072008 school year, Millikan High School had 4,500 students. Millikan is an AP school and does not offer IB courses.
Millikan is separated into five small learning communities each specializing in different fields. They all have different paths for success and different requirements to enter.
COMPASS
The COMPASS Academy is a smaller learning community designed to prepare students for college by engaging them in a program that integrates core curriculum with the social sciences and the arts. This program places great emphasis on standards-based instruction while helping students to connect learning with real-world situations. COMPASS is also in charge of the school's literary arts magazine, Visions. COMPASS is known throughout the Long Beach area as a leading arts program in public high schools.
MBA
promotes life skills and college-preparedness with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, marketing, enterprise, and financial independence.
PEACE
is an academy that engages such programs as stimulations, hands-on learning, community service, and field experience.
QUEST
, is a GATE magnet for gifted honors students. QUEST students commit to a four-year, college preparatory program that encourages diversity of thought and scholarly endeavor. The academic independence of QUEST Scholars culminates in a self-directed Senior Project. The curriculum includes accelerated, honors, and a minimum of five Advanced Placement classes and exams. QUEST students are supported in post-secondary planning through counseling and an academic portfolio. In addition to academic studies, QUEST students are participants in campus extra- and co-curricular activities.
SEGA
Millikan's newly designed Software Engineering and Gaming Academy is a four-year college preparatory program emphasizing computer applications, programming and game design. The academy offers a college preparatory education, including AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A, which provides the foundation for students to enter college and/or become certified to be competitive in the world of work. Formerly known as MIT, and previous to that, Global Technology.
AVID
The school uses the program AVID to prepare students for attendance at a college or university.
Choral music
The choral program consists of six courses: Choraleers Singers 1–2 which is a freshman girls class; Varsity Chorale 1–8, a freshman boys class; Cecillian Singers 3–8, an intermediate girls class; Concert Choir 1–8, a large, advanced, Co-Ed group of vocalists consisting of 100 singers; Vocal Point, a jazz and a cappella female group, sung on microphone; and Vocal Ensemble, the Co-Ed equivalent of Vocal Point.
Instrumental Music
The instrumental music program consists of Gold Jazz Band, Blue Jazz Band, Symphonic Winds, Concert Band, , Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphonic Orchestra. Each year the music ensembles compete in festivals throughout the United States. In recent years Millikan musicians have traveled to compete in festivals in San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Reno. In the spring of 2006, the Symphonic Orchestra performed in a national festival at the Historic Boston Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.
Athletics
Millikan teams include Cross Country, Tennis, Badminton, Water Polo, Dance, Football, Colorguard, Golf, Surf, Marching Band, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, Wrestling, Baseball, Gymnastics, Swim, Softball, Track, Water polo, Lacrosse, and Cheer Some sports are co-ed while others are not. 2018 marked the first year for a female to score a point for the Millikan Rams varsity football.
Newspaper
Millikan's newspaper is the Corydon. It has been running since 1957.
