Mission High School (San Francisco, California)

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Established	1897
School type	Public
Campus	Urban

Principal	Kevin Truitt
Location	3750 18th Street San Francisco, California, United States 94114
Faculty	64
Enrollment	881
Sports teams	Bears

Website	http://www.missionhs.org

Mission High School is an American public high school located in San Francisco, California. It serves grades 9-12 as part of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).

Mission is the oldest high school on its original site in San Francisco; it has been on 18th Street, between Dolores and Church, since 1896. The original campus burned in 1922, and the replacement was completed in two stages, the West Wing in 1925 and the Main Building in 1927 (it was dedicated by Mayor James Rolph on June 12, 1927.). Originally, girls and boys had separate courtyard. The boys' is overlooked by the "baby tower," about 100- feet, and the girls' (right) topped by a 127-foot baroque dome. Mission Creek runs beneath the school

The school is two blocks from Mission Dolores, from which it gets its name.

The lobby leads to a theater that has 1,750 folding wooden seats on two levels and a gold leaf ceiling. Grand as any movie palace, it was outfitted with twin 35mm projectors. Funding never came through for the elaborate pipe organ system it was promised, but the chandeliers have been relamped.

1 Demographics
- 1.1 2005-2006
2 Notable people
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Demographics

The current student body is extraordinarily diverse, with Latino and African American students constituting the two largest ethnic groups, although neither group makes up a majority of the student body.

[edit] 2005-2006

881 students:

Hispanic	African American	Asian	Filipino	White	no response	Pacific Islander	American Indian
39.4%	21.7%	21.7%	7.5%	6.7%	1.5%	1.4%	0.2%

64 certified staff; M/F (45.3/54.7):

White	Asian	no response	Hispanic	African American	Filipino	American Indian	Pacific Islander
53.1%	14.1%	14.1%	10.9%	6.2%	1.6%	0%	0%

(source: California Department of Education)

[edit] Notable people

Alumni
- Maya Angelou, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and actress.
- Guy Mitchell, 1950s pop singer.
- Melissa Ng, 1990, Hong Kong TV actress.
- James Rolph, governor of California (1931–1934) and mayor of San Francisco (1912–1931)
- Carlos Santana, musician and guitarist.