… Day, September 4, 1945 Opening day found 117 students enrolled on Campus, which was comprised of one building of the James A. Garfield High School plant on East Sixth Street, and another 267 nursing students enrolled to take classes at the General … Arts; the Cultural Heritage; and Agriculture. Enrollments increased steadily, and thus the Board of Education purchased a thirty-seven acre (which grew to 82 acres) site at the base of Repetto Hills, on Brooklyn Avenue just west of Atlantic … of fully equipped theaters, including the Ingalls Auditorium, which is one of the largest in Southern California, and the Vincent Price Art Museum. I n 1997, the South Gate Educational Center was established to extend ELAC’s reach to the growing …