William Howard Taft Charter High School, Public charter high school in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
William Howard Taft Charter High School is a public charter high school in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles that enrolls more than 2,000 students. The campus sits at the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Winnetka Avenue and operates with roughly 100 teachers on staff.
The school opened in 1960 as part of the Los Angeles City High School District and became part of the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1961. It converted to an affiliated charter school in 2013.
The school is named after William Howard Taft, the 27th U.S. president and later Chief Justice, who never visited the campus. Its alumni span hip hop and screen acting: Ice Cube, a member of the rap group N.W.A, and actresses Lisa Kudrow and Robin Wright all graduated from Taft.
The campus occupies the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Winnetka Avenue in Woodland Hills, within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Visitors arriving by car use the Winnetka Avenue side, where the entrance has a concrete ramp with gray metal railings beside the steps. The yellow double doors under the long tan "Welcome to TAFT HIGH SCHOOL" sign are the main entry point.
Taft's campus appears in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), Mask (1985), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and The Prom (2020), plus the series Never Have I Ever (2020).
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