About Los Angeles Harbor College

Los Angeles Harbor College (LAHC) is a public community educational in Wilmington, California. It is one of two community colleges serving the South Bay region of Los Angeles. LAHC serves mainly students from Harbor City, Carson, San Pedro, Gardena, Lomita, Wilmington and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

LAHC accommodates on culmination of 8,900 students per semester, and is located amid Wilmington and Harbor City, the heart of the Los Angeles port region. As of 2010, 37% of LAHC’s population were part-time students, with 65% describing themselves as full-time. The instructor population is about 40% male and 60% female.

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Wilmington is a neighborhood in the Harbor region of Los Angeles, California, covering 9.14 square miles (23.7 km2).

Featuring a heavy assimilation of industry and the third-largest oil arena in the continental United States, this neighborhood has a high percentage of Latino and foreign-born residents.

It is the site of Banning High School, and ten additional primary and secondary schools. Wilmington has six parks.

Wilmington dates its history back to a 1784 Spanish house grant. It became a remove city in 1863, and it allied the city of Los Angeles in 1909. Places of assimilation include the headquarters U.S. Army for Southern California and the Drum Barracks built to protect the nascent Los Angeles harbor during the American Civil War.