Torrance High School
2200 West Carson Street
Phone: 533-4396
March 10, 2007
Opened in September, 1917. (39.8 acres: 17 acres obtained from Los Angels School District in 1947, plus 3.8 acres formerly used by Torrance Elementary School, plus approximately 19 acres of former Naval property now used for stadium. Opened under Los Angeles School District in 1917. Built on Dominguez Corporation land originally planned for Torrance City Hall. Administration building now recognized as a National Historic Building. Construction cost: $34,300. First building, designed by architect Richard Cullen Farell, had 7 classrooms and office. North and south wing additions added to the main building, 1923. Auditorium, built in 1923, damaged by Long Beach earthquake of 1933. Many classes in tents while reconstruction underway. Science wing (now home economics) 1929. Library addition behind main building, built in 1934. New auditorium added in 1938. Additions in 1951, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1965, 1974, 1995. (Los Angeles area high schools of the same general era include Redondo Beach, 1905; Jewel (now Gardena), 1907; San Pedro, 1909; Manual Arts and Hollywood, 1910; Leuzinger, 1913; Van Nuys, 1915; Lomita (now Narbonne), 1916, and Banning,
1925.)
After separation from Los Angeles, handled administratively by Redondo High School District in 1947-48, pending unification of Torrance District. New football stadium built, 1948. In 1962, expanded to take over next-door Torrance Elementary School campus; football stadium moved to nearby Naval Land. Frame stucco and reinforced concrete construction, 240,942 sq. ft., 17 buildings, 98 classrooms. Nickname: Tartars.
The attached detail map depicts the southern boundary of the school attendance area. Only students within the Torrance City boundaries attend Torrance schools.
