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Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California)

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Type
  
Public secondary

Principal
  
Brad Coscarelli

Phone
  
+1 707-528-5292

Colors
  
Black, Orange

Established
  
1874

Total enrollment
  
1,998 (2010)

Mascot
  
Black panther, Panther

Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California)

Address
  
1235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401, USA

Santa Rosa High School (SRHS) is a secondary school located in Santa Rosa, California. It is part of the Santa Rosa City High School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools. The main administration is formed by the Principal (Brad Coscarelli), a Vice Principal (Monica Baldenegro) and Assistant Principals (Forrest Harper, Karolina Gage & James Madden). According to Santa Rosa City Schools, SRHS has 1,986 students, which is the largest school in the North Bay region.

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History

SRHS was the only public high school for Santa Rosa from 1874 to 1958. Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), located on the adjacent property, was actually a part of Santa Rosa High School from 1918 to 1927.

The school had several locations. The previous location on Humboldt Street burned to the ground in 1921. The school was moved to its current location and opened in 1924. The current school's design Brick Gothic, with soaring white columns towering over the triple entryway and the addition of gargoyles in niches near the roof, was created by W. H. Weeks in 1922. There are many more recent additions to the school, some copying the original design and others with more modern design and flavor.

Academics

Santa Rosa High School is an academic leader in Santa Rosa, having had for nine consecutive years the district's highest SAT scores, the streak ending in 1973. Santa Rosa High School has an API rating of 751. On-campus tutoring is available through an arrangement with Sonoma State University.

In 2011 Santa Rosa High School received the California Distinguished School and the California Career Technical Awards.

In 2015 Santa Rosa High School received the California Gold Ribbon Award, which replaced the California Distinguished Schools Award as the highest award a school can receive from the state of California. Only two other high schools in the county received this award in its inaugural year.

There is also a branch of SRHS called ArtQuest (see section below), a specialized academic program focused on Visual Fine Arts, Drama, Dance, Music (vocal and instrumental), and Multimedia/Video.

Athletics: The Santa Rosa Panthers

Santa Rosa High School offers a wide variety of athletic programs and competes in the 5-A North Bay League of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.

  • Badminton
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cheerleading
  • Cross Country
  • Cross Country varsity boys were undefeated league champions, a record of 7-0, in the 2008-2009 season.
  • Dance
  • Football
  • Golf (Men's and Women's)
  • Lacrosse
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming
  • In the 2016 swim season, both men's and women's varsity teams were undefeated with 7 - 0 records.
  • Tennis (Men's and Women's)
  • Track and Field
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling
  • The Santa Rosa High Fight Song

    Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, fight on for your fame!
    Pass the ball right down the center,
    Touch down sure this time,
    Rah, rah, rah!
    Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, fight on for your fame!
    Fight, fellas, fight, fight, fight!
    We'll win this game!

    Nevers Field

    Ernie Nevers attended Santa Rosa High School, where he excelled in football. In 1920, as a senior, he led the team to the NCS Championships. He went on to attend Stanford University, and play for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. In 1925 the football field at Santa Rosa High School was renamed Nevers Field in his honor. In 2004, just in time for the homecoming game, a $2 million refurbishment of Nevers Field was completed. The improvements included an artificial turf, an all-weather 8-lane track, new bleachers, a snack bar and ticket booth, restrooms, and lights for night games.

    ArtQuest Program

    Santa Rosa High School is well known for its award winning ArtQuest program. This district-supported program allows students to take classes with specialty course work in the arts, including Visual Fine Arts, Dance, Theatre Arts, Photography, Instrumental and Vocal Music, Multimedia, and the Video program. It was recently awarded the prestigious Jack London Award for Educational Excellence.

    School Newspaper

    Santa Rosa High School has a successful journalism class that produces newspapers about once a month. Entitled The Santa Rosan, it has consistently won awards at the annual Press Democrat competition, among others, and in 2012 won second overall. The program is run by Casey Elsa, who also teaches English at the high school.

    Clubs

    Santa Rosa High School has several student-organized and teacher-supervised clubs, ranging from many different subjects:

  • Anime
  • Art
  • Asian
  • California Scholarship Federation
  • Chess
  • Dance
  • Debate Team (Coach: Miranda Olzman)
  • Drama
  • Climate Protection
  • French
  • Future Farmers of America
  • Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
  • Harry Potter
  • History Club
  • InterKey
  • Invisible Children Club
  • Math Club
  • Outdoor Club
  • Photography
  • Safe Schools Alliance
  • Science Symposium
  • Spanish
  • Ska
  • Swing
  • Ultimate Frisbee Club
  • Writer's Club
  • Brony's Club
  • Elsa's Club
  • In the Movies

    Santa Rosa High School was used for several Hollywood movies, including Peggy Sue Got Married and Inventing the Abbotts. For the filming of Peggy Sue Got Married, the production company paid for a complete restoration of the school's aging gothic facade, including repair and replacement of the many gargoyle figures.

    Director Wes Craven applied for the use of Santa Rosa High School and reached a verbal agreement with the principal of the school for the filming of his 1996 horror film Scream. Just days before filming was to begin, the school board denied permission for the use of the school. In response, the city, previously popular as a film setting, was blacklisted in Hollywood and in the closing credits of Scream, following the listing of organizations and individuals whom the filmmakers wished to thank, Craven included the note, "No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board".

    Foundation

    The Santa Rosa High School Foundation is a special group of alumni who take an active interest in SRHS. The Foundation helps raise money for school programs and other services.

    Notable alumni

  • Gabe Cramer (born 1994), baseball pitcher
  • Daniel Farrands, class of 1987, film producer and screenwriter of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and The Haunting in Connecticut
  • Chuck Girard, class of 1961, rock and roll recording artist, Love Song
  • Randall Jaynes, class of 1987, stage actor & performing director of The Blue Man Group
  • Kevin Kwan Loucks, class of 2000, international concert pianist, founder and artistic director of Chamber Music OC, member of classical music ensemble Trio CĂ©leste
  • Hector Andres Negroni, Air Force fighter oilot, aerospace defense executive, historian
  • Ernie Nevers, football fullback who played for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League.
  • Robert Ripley, star of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
  • Rolando Toyos, ophthalmologist who developed intense pulsed light treatment for eye conditions
  • References

    Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California) Wikipedia