Type Public high school NCES School ID 063386005307 Faculty 110.0 (on FTE basis) Phone +1 949-837-7722 Colors Scarlet, Gold | Established 1966 (1966) Principal Ray Gatfield Grades 9–12 Number of students 2,704 | |
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Mission Viejo High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Mission Viejo, California, United States, as part of the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. The school has served the area since 1966. Students within its attendance boundaries live in western Mission Viejo, southwest Lake Forest, Trabuco Canyon, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Laguna Hills. Its mascot is Pablo the Diablo and its colors are scarlet and gold. 230 credits are required to graduate from Mission Viejo High School. Mission Viejo High School is also the home to one of the only agricultural farms on a high school campus in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. As of the 2005–06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,997 students and 110 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 27.2.
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- Every 15 minutes mission viejo high school
- International Baccalaureate
- Accreditation
- Awards and recognition
- Marching band
- Indoor percussion
- References
International Baccalaureate
Mission Viejo has been an International Baccalaureate (IB) school since July 1985. This program, taught to 80 students, is for academically talented and highly motivated students sponsored and administered by the IB Organization. The students who meet the IB requirements are eligible for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. This school received approximately 80 diplomas in the 2015–2016 school year.
Accreditation
Mission Viejo High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The school received its most recent 6-year renewal of its full accreditation in the 2004–05 school year.
Awards and recognition
Mission Viejo High School has been awarded the Blue Ribbon School and Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education on three separate occasions, in 1988–89, 1994–96 and 2001–02, the highest award an American school can receive.
Mission Viejo High School has been recognized four times as a California Distinguished School, in 1988, 1994, 2001, and 2009.
Marching band
The school's marching band is part of the Western Band Association.
Indoor percussion
The Mission Viejo HS Percussion Ensemble has won multiple awards throughout the years of SCPA and WGI competitions. They won the gold medal and 1st place in 1999, 2001, 2007, and 2014 in various classes and circuits.