Beverly Hills High School

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Beverly Hills High School (often abbreviated as BHHS) is the only public high school in Beverly Hills, California, just outside Los Angeles. BHHS is part of the Beverly Hills Unified School District.

Beverly Hills High School was founded in 1927. Over 2,000 students currently attend the school. Perhaps surprisingly to some people, who might hold particular images of Beverly Hills (possibly inspired by such sources as Beverly Hills Teens the TV show Beverly Hills 90210 and its fictional West Beverly High School), about 35% of the current student body of BHHS was not born in the United States and over half of BHHS students speak a first language other than English. Many of these students are from Iran, or are of Iranian descent. There are also many students from South Korea, Israel, and Russia, as well as from many other countries and language backgrounds. [1] Beverly Hills High School is also featured in the movies Clueless and Real Women Have Curves.

BHHS has an excellent academic reputation, by both national standards and the standards of other public high schools in Southern California. Beverly Hills on numerous occasions has won the Blue Ribbon award for its excellence. Furthermore, BHHS has two award winning news services: KBEV, which is the longest running student TV news broadcast in the nation, and Highlights the school's newspaper, which has also won various awards for its reporting and writing.

BHHS has a number of famous alumni, many of whom are well-known entertainers or the children of entertainers or of other celebrities. In addition, many famous people have taught at the school; soap opera actor John Ingle taught the drama and acting program at the school for twenty years.

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