Ten LAUSD teams qualified for the California Academic Decathlon, which will be held March 17 - 20 in Sacramento. The schools who qualified include:
- Granada Hills
- Marshall
- Franklin
- El Camino Real Charter
- Garfield
- Bell
- Van Nuys
- Grant
- Narbonne
- Hamilton
- North Hollywood
- Cleveland Charter
- Lincoln
Kevin Murchie of Garfield and Larry Welch of Marshall shared the Coach of the Year award.
The Academic Decathlon began Jan. 30 at the Roybal Learning Center near downtown Los Angeles, with teams competing in the speech, interview and essay portions.
The competition concluded Saturday with tests in art, economics, language and literature, mathematics, music and social science and the Super Quiz, also at the Roybal Learning Center.
The study topic was India.
OUR BULLDOG TEAM
| HONORS DIVISION | SCHOLASTIC DIVISION | VARSITY DIVISION |
| OMAR IBARRA | ROSALYN AVILA | ALFONSO CABALLERO |
| JANETH MARA-MARTINEZ | ALBERTO CORDOVA | JOSEPH NABOR |
| MIGUEL MORALES | MARIA MORA | EDUARDO RUIZ |
TEAM RESULTS
| Conference 4: |
1st
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| Overall LAUSD Competition: | 5th |
| Overall in the State: | 7th |
| Overall in the Country: | 10th |
| Qualified for State Competition: | 15th time in 19 years |
For more detailed information please see attached document