65% of all students are Non-Hispanic Whites (mostly being Armenians), 22% are Hispanics/Latinos, 5% are Asians, with the remaining 8% includes Filipinos, African Americans, American Indians, or Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders. Glendale, California has the largest population of Armenians not in Armenia or Russia. Academics In fall 2015, the school's automotive program was re-established with support from car dealerships on Brand Boulevard of Cars. Student discipline and culture In 2010, outgoing principal Kevin Welsh stated that there were frequent racial tensions between Armenian and Hispanic/Latino students. In 2000 Jefferey Gettleman and Lee Condon of the Los Angeles Times reported that in the event of disputes between Armenians and Latinos, people take racial lines, and that the groups do not often socially mingle. According to Gettleman and Condon, recent graduates and current students of the school characterized it as "polarized" between Latinos and Armenians. Tensions between Armenians and Latinos had occurred in other parts of the Los Angeles area. At least three violent incidents involving Hoover students have occurred, including the 1995 stabbing death of Tony Petrossian, who had intervened in a fight between two teens over a broken car stereo; the 1998 shooting of Avetis “Avo” Demirchyan, involving in a dispute between Armenians; and the 2000 stabbing of 12th grade student Raul Aguirre, who attempted to intervene between Armenian and Hispanic gangs but who was not a gang member himself. The three incidents did not occur on campus directly, but Welsh stated that they damaged the school's reputation. The Aguirre incident was the first death related to Latino-Armenian tensions. On October 3, 2018, a brawl broke out in the school's upper quad during lunch break, believed to have been caused by racial tensions between the two groups. Due to the scale of the fight, police was called to break it up and the school was put under lockdown. Athletics Hoover High School provides a wide variety of sports to students including boys' water polo (3rd place, 2008-2009 season and again 2009-2010 season and reached CIF division VI quarterfinals) and girls' water polo, boys' and girls' volleyball, boys' and girls' soccer (2006-2007 league champions), boys' and girls' basketball, boys' American football (girls are also welcome), baseball, softball, track, cross country, golf, pep squad, swimming and wrestling. The 1975 baseball team won the CIF 4A Championship defeating Lakewood High 2-1 at Dodger Stadium. A significant aspect of the school's history is