Quartz Hill High School

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Quartz Hill High School

Name

Quartz Hill High School
Address

6040 West Avenue L
Location

Quartz Hill, California
Established

1964
Community

Suburban
Type

Public
Principal

Mark Bryant
Grades

9 to 12
Accreditation

Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Mascot

The Rebel
Colors

Blue and Gold
Newspaper

The Ubiquity
Yearbook

The Cavalier
Website

http://www.qhhs.org

Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Quartz Hill, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD).

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[edit] Campus

The basic layout of Quartz Hill High School's eighty-acre campus is a courtyard surrounded by several quads and athletic buildings, a design that is typical of high schools in Southern California. The school's campus was originally designed for 1,800 students, but over two times that number are currently enrolled.

From the summer of 2003 to the fall of 2004, Quartz Hill High School's campus underwent a $15 million modernization that updated the majority of the school's classrooms.

[edit] Student Body

Quartz Hill High School consists of approximately 3,900 students, and the school's population is growing. Most of the school's students live in Quartz Hill, Palmdale and Lancaster, cities in the Antelope Valley of northern Los Angeles County.

  • American Indian: 0.8%
  • Pacific Islander: 0.03%
  • Filipino: 1.8%
  • Asian: 3.2%
  • African American: 8.4%
  • Hispanic: 15.3%
  • White: 70.2%

[edit] Academics

Quartz Hill High School is one of 65 high schools in California to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme, which began at the school in 1998. Advanced Placement (AP) classes are also available in nearly all academic departments.

Quartz Hill High School is consistently ranked as the top school in its district and one of the top schools in the state according to the Academic Performance Index.

Quartz Hill High School is the only school in the district to have a student receive a perfect score on the SATs.

[edit] Activities

Activities at Quartz Hill High School include

[edit] Sports

The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, cross country, track and field, tennis, swimming, wrestling, volleyball and golf.

The mascot of Quartz Hill High School is the Rebel, a confederate soldier.

The 2002 Men's Varsity soccer team won the Lancaster Classic Tournament, Royal Invitational Tournament, and Golden League Titles while remaining undefeated throughout the season. Once CIF-SS playoffs began, Quartz Hill (#3 overall seed) defeated several teams before defeating nationally ranked and defending CIF-SS champion Long Beach Milikan on their way to a CIF-SS Championship. Quartz Hill finished with a 28-0-2 record and national Top 5 ranking (StudentSports.com and Adidas Rankings). Several players received post season accolades, including junior Kiel McClung was Golden League MVP and CIF Offensive Player of the Year.

The 2004 Men's Varsity soccer team lost in the Semifinals of CIF-SS play, marking only the second time at that point that a Golden League team had reached the Semifinals. Quartz Hill also defeated the overall top seed Damien, in the quarterfinals and Mater Dei in an overtime and penalty kick shootout thriller one game before. At the season's conclusion Quartz Hill finished with a national Top 50 ranking, the third straight year in which Quartz Hill was nationally recognized. Several players received post season accolades, including Randall Davis, El-Shaadai Bent, and Michael Davis who were All CIF selections. Coach Michael Lewis led the Rebels to a finish to the season well beyond early expectations.

2006 Highlights: The baseball team started the season ranked #13 in all of Southern California and #2 in Division II of California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section. The boys team won the CIF championship on June 3. One wrestler placed 4th at CIF and subsequently made it to the Masters Division.

[edit] Mission statements

Mission Statement: The mission of Quartz Hill High School is to produce responsible citizens who are able to communicate effectively, set and achieve realistic goals, and who become life long learners.

Vision Statement: Quartz Hill High School desires to provide the staff with training, instruction and modeling to improve the instructional strategies, curriculum offerings, and learning for all students. It is the school’s vision that all students will reinforce their fundamental academic skills through the use of appropriate instruction, current technology, and an environment most conducive to learning. The school desires to equip staff with the skills which will assist in providing all students opportunities for post-high school success.

[edit] Planned school attack

On December 15, 2005, two former Quartz Hill students were arrested for planning a Columbine style massacre at the school. The two youths allegedly intended to attack the school on St. Valentine's Day of 2006. News reports described them as goths and indicated that they had accumulated knives, ammunition, a gas mask and bomb-making instructions. They were charged on December 19, 2005 with conspiracy to commit murder. [1]

Tensions flared again on January 13, 2006, when a rumor that the former students who had been arrested would again attempt to attack the school using pipe-bombs. According to Principal Mark Bryant, the planned attacks were merely "rumor, upon rumor, upon rumor", as the two youths are still being held in custody. This "Friday the 13th" rumor was passed between students via internet messages and cell-phone text messages. In response to the threat, nearly 50% of the student body was absent from the campus by the time the school day had finished. In the end, the only disruption to the day was a firecracker explosion within a trash can during the school's lunch break. [2]

[edit] Notable alumni

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