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Merced High School

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Type
  
High School

Superintendent
  
Alan Peterson

Phone
  
+1 209-325-1000

Mascot
  
Bears

Opened
  
1895

Principal
  
Jon Schaefer

Founded
  
14 March 1922

Motto
  
Home of Champions and Scholars

Established
  
March 14, 1922 (1922-03-14)

Address
  
205 W Olive Ave, Merced, CA 95348, USA

District
  
Merced Union High School District

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Merced High School is located in Merced, California, United States. It is a part of the Merced Union High School District.

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The current enrollment is over 1,800 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is currently under Principal Jon Schaefer and Associate Principals Jannette McAuley, Greg McKinstry, Amy Pellissier, and Shane Smith.

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Academics

The Merced High School Advanced Placement program is open for any student who wishes to be challenged in the fields of chemistry, English, physics, government, Spanish, biology, calculus, statistics and studio art. The teachers at Merced High School try to ensure that their students work their hardest, which explains the high percentage of students who pass the Advanced Placement examinations with a score of 3, 4, or 5. Merced High School's Advanced Placement exam and test scores have earned it a place among the Top 1300 schools in the United States by Newsweek magazine. The school has also earned a Bronze Award from U.S. News & World Report, having been cited as one of the top 1,800 schools in the United States.

The Merced High Academic Decathlon team took the title of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Merced County Champions and competed in Sacramento in March 2015, coming in 51st place in the state of California.

Special programs

The school has the Newcomer Program for newly arrived immigrants. As of February 2006, 80 students from Southeast Asia were a part of the program. Many of them were refugees from the Thamkabok refugee camp in Thailand. Many had never had formal education before, did not know how to use writing utensils, and did not know how to write their own names.

Student life

As of 2006 the school has an Asian Club, which has over 100 members. It is one of the largest groups at Merced High School. The Asian Club takes end of the year school trips and holds fundraising and social events.

Athletics

Merced High School produced the 2015-2016 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year. Madilyn Nickles received this award as the top high school softball player in America.

As of 2016, the Merced High boys' swimming team has won eight straight Central California Conference championships.

Merced High School has won the Central California Conference for three straight seasons in football (2014, 2015, and 2016).

Demographics

By January 1983, Merced High School North Campus had suddenly received over 200 Hmong refugee students, with almost all of them in English as a second language (ESL) programs. Between the northern hemisphere spring of 1982 and January 1983 the school doubled the size of its ESL program. A former assistant principal at Merced High North said that many of the Hmong students valued education and had almost perfect school attendance.

Notable students

  • Margaret Dingeldein – member of the US Women's Olympic Waterpolo team during the 2004 Summer Olympics
  • Marvin Eastman – mixed martial arts fighter
  • Duke Fergerson – former NFL football player for the Seattle Seahawks and the Buffalo Bills
  • Brian Fuentes – MLB baseball player
  • Salar Kamangar - CEO of YouTube, and founding member of Google's product team
  • Janet Leigh - actress
  • Eric A. McAfee - entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist
  • Tony Slaton – former NFL football player for the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys
  • References

    Merced High School Wikipedia