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Class of 2023 graduations happening in Arcadia include: June 1-Arroyo Pacific Academy graduation at Arroyo Pacific Academy, 325 North Santa Anita Avenue. June 8-Arcadia High School graduation at Santa Anita Park Racetrack, 285 West Huntington Drive. Also, June 6-Gabrielino High School (located in San Gabriel) graduation will be held at Santa Anita Park Racetrack.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36484
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 17, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 17, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arroyo Pacific Academy
Graduations
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2004 Graduation ceremony will be held on June 11 at 4:30 pm at Santa Anita Park Park race track. An estimated 850 students will graduate. The article also lists graduation ceremony information for other local schools.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28305
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 16, 2004
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 16, 2004
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Arcadia High School
2004 graduation ceremonies
Item ID
28503AN
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Arcadia High School's 2019 Valedictorian Kevin Tan (photo), is headed to Harvard University in the fall on a full scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Article has photos of other Arcadia High School graduates at the 2019 commencement at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35522
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Tan, Kevin
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The City Council approved a 5% water rate increase that will raise the average bimonthly bill from $39 to $42.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper191
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1993
Pages
p. A-5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1993
Pages
p. A-5
Subjects
Water
Item ID
191AN
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A survey gives City of Hope in Duarte and Huntington Hospital in Pasadena the highest rank in patient care. Methodist Hospital of Souther California in Arcadia received average to above-average ratings.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25650
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2003
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2003
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Methodist Hospital
Item ID
25850AN
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Student dropout numbers are mixed in the area schools. Arcadia had a higher percentage of graduating seniors than the county and state as a whole.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25432
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School Dropout rate
Item ID
25631AN
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All freshmen entering Arcadia High School are required to swim 50 yards and tread water for three minutes. Senior Justin Briggs was in danger of not graduating because he had not passed the swimming competency test. A doctor's excuse enabled him to graduate.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14218
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 1998
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 1998
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
14794AN
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Area school districts did better than average on the 2004 California English Language Development Test of English learning students. Sixty-six percent of students tested in Arcadia Unified School District scored in the advanced categories.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29398
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
English language tests
Arcadia Unified School District
Proficiency, skills and fluency
San Gabriel Valley schools
California English Language Development Test
Item ID
29582AN
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Californian Assemblywoman Carol Liu visited Arcadia High School to discuss a bill banning the use of Native American mascots.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23500
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School mascot
Item ID
23708AN
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A recent audit of fire department response times in 12 cities shows San Marino and Pasadena firefighters were the quickest in responding to emergency calls. The report covered April, May and June. San Marino's and Pasadena's average response times were 4:03 and 4:02, respectively. Arcadia's average, in comparison, was 4:21.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32122
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 2, 2010
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 2, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fire departments
Verdugo Fire Communications Center
Item ID
32319AN
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Police seek San Marino High School student Mira Hu, who is believed to have run away after being dropped off at 7:30 AM at Arcadia High School for the SAT exam on Saturday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34192
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Hu, Mira
Missing children
Runaways
San Marino High School students
Item ID
34386AN
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A video created by three Arcadia High School graduates went viral and brought people to a school board meeting alst week, in support of fired cross country coach James O'Brien. The creators of the video are Esmond Wei, Ben Hsueh, and Sergio Rodriguez. The video was posted on YouTube.com and had more than 10,000 views in three days. A week later, it had more than 16,000 views.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33556
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--coaches
Arcadia High School teachers
Cross-country
Hsueh, Ben
O'Brien, James
Rodriguez, Sergio
Wei, Esmond
Item ID
33751AN
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Fewer than half of the high school students statewide scheduled to graduate in 2004 have passed both the English language arts and mathematics portions of the California High School Exit Exam. Arcadia High School sophomores who took the test last year had the strongest showing in the local area with 89% of the 738 students tested passing math and 88% passing English.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24596
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
California High School Exit Exam
Item ID
24787AN
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High school baseball. Early offense gets Arcadia big win over Burroughs in a Pacific League game.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36675
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2024
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2024
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports
Baseball
Vogel, Jordan
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Los Angeles County coronavirus (COVID-19) cases by community. Also includes deaths, hospitalizations and vaccinations. Los Angeles County total cases: 1,471,645. Arcadia city has had 3341 cases and unincorporated Arcadia has had 729 cases.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36072
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2021
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2021
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Los Angeles County Public Health
Pandemics
Viruses
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Sound cards were missing from four computers in an Arcadia High School classroom. School officials suspect they were stolen by students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6071
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 1996
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 1996
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
5904AN
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Arcadia High School graduate Mike Taylor, along with 2 others, started Cronies, a Chatsworth based company that is making a big splash in the area of licensed apparel.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper5656
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1995
Pages
p. B3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1995
Pages
p. B3 photo
Subjects
Taylor, Mike
Item ID
5507AN
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More than 800 Arcadia High School students graduated at Santa Anita Park on Friday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper19263
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2000
Pages
p. A1 w/photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2000
Pages
p. A1 w/photos
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Item ID
19505AN
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Arcadia High School graduates some 800 students at the commencement held at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25640
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
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25840AN
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Honorary degrees were awarded to Japanese-American former Pasadena City College students who had their educations cut short by internment during World War II. Japanese-American "nisei" students at what was then Pasadena Junior College never got the chance to graduate with the Class of 1942. One honorary graduate, Fusae Hamane (died in 1997), born and raised in Pasadena, was told to report to Santa Anita Park race track before being sent to a camp in Gila Bend, AZ. The graduation came 68 years later.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32090
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 2010
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 2010
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
California Nisei College Diploma Project
Hamane, Fusae
Kuromiya, Yoshito
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Utsunomiya, Wade
Yoshihashi, Tokuji
Item ID
32287AN
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