Type Public Secondary Principal Lilia Bozigian Enrollment 1,456 Number of students 1,456 | Established 1959 Grades 9–12 Phone +1 562-698-8121 Colors Black, White, Green | |
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Faculty 80 (4 Administrators, 1 Director, 4.5 Counselors, 1 Psychologist, 1 LASD SRO, 69 Teachers) Address 10800 Benavon St, Whittier, CA 90606, USA District Whittier Union High School District | ||
Pioneer High School is a public school in Whittier, California.
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Academics
Pioneer High School encourages the taking of AP courses in order to challenge and prepare for college.
Pioneer High School offers a wide variety of AP courses, which include:
New stadium
Whittier Union High School District plans to demolish existing football stadiums at California and Pioneer high schools and replace them with new ones. Each will have an elevator providing service to all levels, team rooms, more and better storage, press boxes and four classrooms.The entire project is expected to take about 500 days but has been delayed due to bidding problems, students from the class of 2013 and perhaps students of the class of 2014 may not graduate in the new stadium and must walk down the aisle at an alternate location which has not yet been announced.
General information
Pioneer High School, home of the Titans, is located in unincorporated community of West Whittier-Los Nietos, California, neighboring the city of Pico Rivera. The school serves students from the Los Nietos, South Whittier, and Whittier City school districts. PHS is one of the 5 comprehensive high schools in the Whittier Union High School District. Titans celebrated the school's 50th anniversary on October 22–23, 2010.
Ethnic breakdown
The student body at pioneer is 94% Hispanic, with an additional 3% of Asian and Caucasian and less than one percent of Black, Native American and Pacific Islander.
Clubs/Organizations
Clubs at pioneer include: All Male, ASB Cabinet, AVID, Band, CSF, Chess Club, Club Literario, Co-Ed Dance, Class Councils, Drill Team ('10x Consecutive National Champions), Eco Challenged, Environmental Society, Film Club,Art Club, Latin Dance, Leo's Club, PACE, Pepsters, Pink Ribbon, Physics Club, PREP, Puente Club, S Club, Sign Language Club, Spanish Club (AP), Titans 4 Christ,and Titan Tones (Gold 1st place advanced vocal ensemble and 1st place gold in an advanced music competition 2011). Winner of many superior ratings above a 90%, two solo maestros awards, honor choir participants,state choir, and many many awards throughout the years and ranked the highest in the bay area tour in 2012.
Titan Sports
Athletic Director: Joseph Cordova
Fall sports
Winter sports
Spring sports
Summer sports
Boys Soccer
The most successful sport of late is Boys soccer, making the CIF playoffs the past two years. During that span they beat top teams in the state including Salesian High School; back-to-back CIF and State Champions. The team has also won back to back St. Paul tournament championships, knocking off Gladstone 3-2 in 2008, and Roosevelt 1-0 in 2009. During the 2009-10 season, the team won their first playoff game in over 13 years defeating Lynwood 3-2 in overtime during wild-card round, before losing to Santa Ana Valley, ranked #8 in the nation, in the last 5 minutes 2-0 in the 1st round.