Type Public high school Principal Paul Robinson Grades 9-12 Mascot Freddie Falcon Number of students 1,419 | Established 1959 Staff 72 (2012-2013) Enrollment 1,419 (2011-2012) Phone +1 408-867-3411 | |
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District Mineral Springs School District, Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District | ||
Saratoga High School is a public high school in Saratoga, California, United States. It is part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. The school is jointly accredited by the California Department of Education and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Student enrollment averages around 1350. U.S. News & World Report ranked Saratoga as the 152nd best public high school in America.
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Academics
As of 2015, Saratoga High offers around 60 clubs on campus.
Harvard MIT Math Competition
Saratoga High won the Harvard–MIT Mathematics Tournament in 2011, becoming the first bay area school in the recent 20 years in HMMT history.
National History Bowl
In 2015, Saratoga High School won the National History Bowl academic quiz competition.
Athletics
The Saratoga Falcons compete in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) of the CIF Central Coast Section (CCS).
Saratoga Football has won five CIF Central Coast Section championships: 1973, 1976, 1980, 1987, 1996. Because of complaints from residents, lights for the football field were not installed until 2006. In the past, the team has had to play at Los Gatos High School. In April 2006, the Trustees of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District approved permanent lights for the football field. Nearby West Valley College has been blocked from both lights and even stadium seating since the campus was constructed in 1974.
SHS Baseball won a Division II CCS championship in 1999.
In 2009, the girls' varsity tennis team defeated rival Monta Vista High School 5-2 for their first CCS championship in the history of the program and went on to win the title again in 2010.
Chess Team
At the 2005 National Grade Level Chess Championships in Houston, the 9th graders were national champions.( The team won the NorCal State Championship for a record 6 consecutive years (2004–2010).
Drama department
Saratoga High School is also home of International Thespian Society Troupe #6354. Every year, the members of Troupe #6354 travel down to Ontario and participate in multiple events at the Southern California Thespian Conference. The department produces a musical every spring, and a straight play in the fall.
Campus
The school has 8 tennis courts, an all weather track, an artificial turf football field, an artificial turf soccer field, a quad, and an Olympic-size swimming pool.
McAfee Performing Arts and Lecture Center
The McAfee Performing Arts and Lecture Center, a community facility, was completed on the campus around 2005. It was originally planned for the early 1960s but construction was postponed and the funds used for seismic upgrades to the Los Gatos campus. Public and private funds were raised 40 years later and it was scheduled to open in early-2004, but budget and construction delays pushed the completion date back to August, 2005. The center is named after Saratoga residents Eric McAfee and Marguerite McAfee, who donated $1 million toward its construction. The lecture center is now being operated by Adrian Stapleton, a stage tech director.