In 1982, eighteen students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles passed the Advanced Placement calculus exam. The testing service found the scores suspicious. Fourteen students were asked to retake the exam. Twelve agreed.
All twelve did well enough to have their scores reinstated. Their teacher was Jaime Escalante, who had begun teaching at Garfield in 1974. He called the later film about the class “90% truth, 10% drama.”
The 1988 film Stand and Deliver told the story. Edward James Olmos played Escalante.