Millikan High School
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. Millikan High School has around 3,500 students. Millikan is an AP school and does not offer IB courses. Name
Millikan High School is named after the Nobel Prize winner Robert Andrews Millikan. 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, Marching 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, Beach 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.

Notable alumni

 Susie Atwood, double Olympic medalist, 1972 Olympics, backstroke
 Ryan Bailey, Olympic water polo player
 Jason Bell, NFL player
 Jennifer Bermingham, professional golfer
 Nick Bierbrodt, baseball player
 Alden Darby, NFL player
 Marcus Dove, basketball player
 Audie England, Actor
 Dave Frost, professional baseball player
 Mike Gallo, professional baseball player 
 Gary Garrison, professional football player with San Diego Chargers
 Bud Gaugh, Sublime Drummer. Jack Grisham, TSOL vocalist, author An American Demon: A Memoir 
 Gene Hoglan, metal musician
 Soben Huon, Miss Utah USA 2006
 Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress on ABC's The Goldbergs, actress on Comedy Central's Reno 911!, and the film Bridesmaids
 Charles McShane, NFL player
 Mike Montgomery, Golden State Warriors and University of California basketball coach
 Tino Nuñez, professional soccer player
 Syd O'Brien, professional baseball player 
 Dante Powell, professional baseball player 
 Greg Sampson, football player, sixth pick of 1972 NFL draft
 Chris Saunders, UFC, The Ultimate Fighter: Live - Season 15
 Jonathan Singleton, professional baseball player 
 Spencer Steer, professional baseball player
 Craig Swan, professional baseball player
 Mike Tully, pole vaulter, 1984 Summer Olympics silver medalist

References

High schools in Long Beach, California
Long Beach Unified School District
 
Public high schools in California
1956 establishments in California
Educational institutions established in 1956