Norma Coombs Alternative School is located at 2600 Paloma St., Pasadena, California 91107 and is located in Pasadena Unified School District.
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History
The Norma Coombs Alternative School began as the Pasadena Alternative School (PAS), which is a collaborative effort by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the school district, established to address community wishes for schools that offer a more unstructured approach to education. The original PAS was established in 1972. Teaching began in a single classroom on the Washington Elementary website with about 50 students organized as K-12 schools.
PAS moved several times as the numbers swelled. In September 1975, it was kept at the Washington Junior High School, which was renamed the Washington Center for Alternative Studies. High School Evening is also located on site, although the program remains separate.
In 1982, Pasadena Alternative moved to a temporary spot at its current location on Paloma Street, adjacent to the former Hale Elementary School. The Hale Elementary is named after astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), who, in addition to founding the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, also established and directed some of the world's largest observatories, including the Mount Wilson Observatory.
In 1996, the school was reconfigured from K-12 to K-8 and renamed the Norma Coombs Alternative School in honor of Norma S. Coombs, who died earlier that year. He has served three years as principal of PAS and together with Pasadena Unified School District for 36 years, first as a teacher and then a language arts specialist.
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Class Configuration
In the 2010-2011 school year, Norma Coombs Alternative School (NCAS) serves students as K-5. In the 2009-2010 school year, NCAS is K-8 with registration 575.
External links
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References
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