La Serna High School is a public high school in Whittier, California that was founded in 1961 and is part of the Whittier Union High School District. The school's colors are crimson, gold and white.HistoryLa Serna High School was founded in 1961. The school has been a California Distinguished School four times, in 1990, 1996, 2003, and 2009.AcademicslAsterisks denote classes that only earn elective credits.Students and student lifeAt La Serna High School, every senior is required to complete the Senior Project in order to graduate high school.Link CrewLink Crew was a system implemented in 2005 that was aimed at helping incoming freshman students acclimate to the high school environment by having junior and senior peer mentors help them through their first year at La Serna.Model United NationsModel United Nations was founded in the 2015-2016 school year. The Model United Nation's team attends an annual average of six conferences and one travel conference. In 2016, La Serna's MUN team competed at the UC Berkeley MUN conference.The FreelancerThe Freelancer is the name of La Serna High School's newspaper, which releases one issue each month during the regular school year. The Freelancer is created and written by the students, who also allow feedback mail to which they respond. One teacher oversees the production of each newspaper per year.In 2006, English teacher Holly Vance was demoted from her position as the adviser of the newspaper's production, due to the controversial penultimate issue on May 10, 2006, entitled "The 'S' Word", which discussed sex amongst teenagers. Also due to this, the final edition of the year, for the month of June, was banned. The student body was unsuccessful in overturning this decision.
