Fresno High School
Fresno High School | |
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Location | |
United States | |
Coordinates | 36°46′02″N119°48′19″W/ 36.7672°N 119.80536°W |
Information | |
School type | Public |
Established | 1889[2] |
School district | Fresno Unified School District |
Principal | Amy Smith |
Teaching staff | 82.95 (FTE)[3] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 2,214[3](2020-2021) |
Student to teacher ratio | 26.69[3] |
Color(s) | |
Mascot | Warrior |
Rival | Roosevelt High School |
Accreditation | WASC[1] |
Newspaper | The Owlet |
Additional Accreditation | International Baccalaureate[4] |
Website | FHS |
Fresno High Schoolis a four-yearsecondary schoollocated inFresno, California.It is part of theFresno Unified School District.Fresno High is the oldest high school in the Fresno metropolitan area and one of the fewInternational Baccalaureateschools. As of 2023, Amy Smith is the 30th and current principal of Fresno High.
Fresno High was founded in 1889 as the first secondary school in Fresno county.
History
[edit]Fresno High School was founded in 1889.[5]The new school quickly outgrew the available space and had to be moved to the White School, where the Memorial Auditorium is located today. Plans for a new high school building were developed.
In September 1896, the school year began in the new building on O Street between Stanislaus and Tuolumne streets. The new back structure, with its clock tower, had the latest and most modern facilities, including a chemistry laboratory, gymnasium, library, and lecture hall.
In 1922, the school moved to its present site at 1839 North Echo Avenue, near Palm and McKinley Avenues. Fresno High School is surrounded by large homes (originally one of Fresno's affluent areas) and large Fresno ash and pine trees. On October 15, 2002, the historic Royce Hall building caught fire and suffered minimal damage.[6]
The campus is divided into several components. The two main components are "South Side" and "North Side", named so from their campus location.[7]South Side campus housesTitle Ioffices, the business, foreign language, science, and mathematics divisions. The North Side houses English, social sciences, art, and history divisions. Physical education, leadership andJROTCare housed on the westernmost portion of the campus. The drama and music divisions, in addition to various miscellaneous classrooms, are attached to Fresno High's historic Royce Hall. There is a little known fallout shelter entrance at the rear of the handball courts, (in the middle where the metal grate is on the ground), that goes down stairs to a door that leads under "goat hill" and then under Royce Hall.
Renovations to Royce Hall were completed for the 2018–2019 school year. They were worked on throughout the 2017–2018 school year. The goal was to give the historic hall a modernization which included new carpeting, acoustic sound paneling, a sound booth located near the auditorium entrance and the removal and relocation of a handicap elevator to make more room for stair access to the stage.
Academics
[edit]Fresno High School offers its students the fullInternational Baccalaureatediplomas.[4]The school has been offering its graduate students full IB diplomas since June 2007. The campus offers several advanced placement courses and requires the study of foreign language in order to receive a diploma, along with the completion of a 4,000 word essay and 150 hours of community service. The campus has received poor academic achievement scores in the past, but has shown improvement.[8]The campus employs 133 full- and part-time instructors, in addition to several guidance counselors, classified staff, administrative employees, one full-time psychologist and one full-time family therapist.[9]The curriculum has been broadened to meet the needs of the world's professions. However the opportunity to pursue a classical education, including the study of Latin, is still available to the students of Fresno High School. The campus offers Spanish, Latin and Hmong language courses.
Extracurricular activities
[edit]Performing arts
[edit]Fresno High is home to numerous Performing Arts which are offered to students as elective courses. Performing arts courses that are offered currently consist of: Theater, which includes IB Level options, Piano 1&2, Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Intermediate Symphonic Orchestra, Advanced Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Choir and Chamber Choir.
Sports
[edit]Fresno High is an active athletic school, maintaining several teams for both boys and girls in addition to several co-ed teams. The Fresno High football team continues its rivalry game against Roosevelt High School, known as the Little Big Game. The Little Big Game is also known as the Pig Game. It is an annual game in which Fresno High plays against its rival Roosevelt High School for a pig statue to hold for that year. The pig was at one time stolen from Fresno High's attendance office and a replacement was made.[10]The campus offers Prep and Cheer, football, cross country, soccer (valley champion 2010–2011 season), baseball, golf, tennis, water polo, softball teams, basketball, track and field, swim, badminton, and a lacrosse team.
Notable alumni
[edit]This article's list of alumnimay not follow Wikipedia'sverifiabilitypolicy.(October 2021) |
- Armen Alchian,economist[11]
- Charles Amirkhanian,composer and broadcaster
- Phil Austin,writer and comedian ofThe Firesign Theatre
- Ross Bagdasarian,creator ofAlvin and the Chipmunks
- Bonnie Bannon,actress, model, dancer
- Frank Chance,Major League Baseball First Baseman and Manager in theHall of Fame
- Mike Connors,actor in films and star of TV seriesMannix[12]
- Pat Corrales,Major League Baseball catcher and manager
- Sean Halton,Major League Baseball first baseman
- Cher,singer andAcademy Award-winning actress
- Dick Contino,accordionistand actor[12][13]
- Lee Cronbach,educational psychologist
- Gordon Dunn,Silver Medalist - Discus Throw (1936 Summer Olympics), Mayor of Fresno (1949-1957)
- Dick Ellsworth,Major League Baseball pitcher[14]
- Geoffrey Gamble,former president,Montana State University[15]
- Jon Hall,actor[12]
- David Harris,anti-war activist and journalist
- Bobby Jones,New York MetsandSan Diego Padrespitcher[16]
- Skip Kenney,swimming coach[17]
- Arthur Scott King,physicist and astrophysicist[18]
- Jim Maloney,Major League Baseball pitcher
- Monte Pearson,Major League Baseball pitcher, 4-time World Series champion
- Sam Peckinpah,Film Director, Screenwriter notable forThe Wild Bunch
- Madeline Pendleton,Fashion designer
- Les Richter,Los Angeles Ramsfootball player[19]
- William Saroyan,playwright[20]
- Tom Seaver,Major League Baseball pitcher inHall of Fame[16]
- Dick Selma,Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ginny Simms,singer and film actress
- Frederick C. Weyand– formerU.S. Army Chief of Staff(1974-1976) and member of theJoint Chiefs of Staff
References
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- ^"FHS History".Fresno High School. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-11-24.Retrieved2008-01-07.
- ^abc"Fresno High".National Center for Education Statistics.RetrievedSeptember 17,2022.
- ^ab"Fresno High School".International Baccalaureate.Retrieved2008-01-07.
IB school code: 001469; Fresno High School has been an IB World School since July 2003.
- ^"History of Fresno High".www.fresnohighalumni.com.Retrieved2019-10-16.
- ^"ABC 30 Fresno October 15, 2002".YouTube.
- ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2008-04-11.Retrieved2007-12-31.
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- ^Anthony Witrado (2004-04-21). "Celebrated Pig Trophy stolen from Fresno High".The Fresno Bee.
- ^Read, Colin (2015).The Corporate Financiers: Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen and Meckling.Palgrave Macmillan.p. 138.ISBN978-1-137-34128-0.
- ^abc"FRESNO FIRST PULITZER PURSUIT".The Fresno Bee.1988-02-28.
- ^"Dick Contino's Home Page".Archived fromthe originalon 2015-02-13.Retrieved2008-01-07.
- ^"Dick Ellsworth Stats".Baseball Almanac.RetrievedNovember 15,2012.
- ^"Fresno State Gets $1 Million Bequest."Central Valley Business Times.October 16, 2010.ArchivedJuly 14, 2015, at theWayback MachineAccessed 2013-08-10.
- ^abDave Anderson (1987-06-01)."Irabu? Mets Prefer Jones, Thank You All the Same".The New York Times.Retrieved2008-01-07.
- ^Skip Kenney, Iconic Stanford and Olympic Swimming Coach, Dies at 79
- ^King, Robert B. (1995). "ARTHUR S. KING".Biographical Memoirs V. 68.National Academy of Sciences.p. 181.ISBN0-309-05239-4.
- ^Kinter, Earl Wilson (1958).Organized professional team sports: hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly...Washington:U.S. G.P.O.p. 340.OCLC13041594.
- ^Lee, Lawrence; Barry Gifford (2005).Saroyan: A Biography.New York:Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 317.ISBN1-56025-761-X.