Bear Creek High School (California)

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Bear Creek High School
Established	1991
Type	Public high school
Principal	Daryl Camp
Asst. Principal	Richard Thomas, Pete Corsun, Donna Thayer
Students	Roughly 3000
Grades	Grade 9 - Grade 12
Location	10555 Thornton Road, Stockton, California, United States
District	Lodi Unified School District
Website	[1]

Bear Creek High School is a high school located in north Stockton, California. It is part of Lodi Unified School District (LUSD). Current enrollment is roughly 3,000. Before Ronald E. McNair High School opened in 2006, Bear Creek was the newest high school in LUSD. It first opened for the 1991-92 school year as the first high school from LUSD to be built in Stockton, about 10 miles from the closest LUSD high school (Tokay High School). Daryl Camp is the principal of Bear Creek High School after replacing William Toledo in 2005.

1 Demographics
2 Historical problems and recent change
3 Athletics
4 Academic teams
5 Class colors
6 Links

[edit] Demographics

Demographically, the school has an Asian majority with 38.4%, followed by Caucasian with 25.3%, Latino with 20.1%, African-American with 15.6% and other with 0.7%.

Because of the very diverse backgrounds of the students, there are a number of clubs that represent the various cultures. These cultures are displayed during the school's International Rally. Some notable clubs include: Poly, Four Elements, Punjabi Junction, Kababayan, BC Latino, BETA, Vietnamese, JCKC, Swing, BSU, French, Dance and Drill.

[edit] Historical problems and recent change

The school's diversity has led to many racial conflicts involving students. During the 2004-05 school year, a string of attacks on white students by black students led to an extreme crackdown on campus violence. Dubbed "White Wednesday", attacks would happen outside of the gymnasium and restrooms, where cameras where not focused. In all, a dozen attacks occurred with varying degrees of severity. Also in 2004, there was a riot involving close to 500 students where faculty and School Resource Officers got involved. 30 people were suspended and two students were arrested following the lunch-time brawl.

Students in the Orthopedically Handicapped program (OH) have also reported abuse from faculity both publicly and privately. In the 1995-96 school year, quadripeledgic student, Chris Brevik, was reportedly starved as punishment for disobeying OH faculity. He was suffering from the disease Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, and at the time, weighed a mere sixty-eight pounds. - Chris Brevik graduated from Bear Creek High School in 1996, but later died from duchenne muscular dystrophy in 1999. A biography for Chris that was completed by his friend, Kimberly Froberg, also a Bear Creek student (graduated in 1999) can be found at: www.mandysnmore.com/chrisbio.html

[edit] Athletics

Bear Creek High School is best known for their National Champion Cheerleading squads from 1997 - 2001. They were coached by John Hebert, Lisa Deeter (Science teacher at The Creek) and Gigi Mandujan. Once the coaches left the cheerleading program was no longer the same.

Unfortunately, Bear Creek High School is infamous for its Varsity Football team's poor performance throughout the last 5 years. Although the football team has struggled, the badminton teams are competing in the top ranks in the state. In 2007, both teams were undefeated and managed to place 1st in the SJAA league. In the 2008, BC badminton maintained that 1st place title.

The swimming and water polo teams practice each day at McNair High School, a half-hour bus ride away, because of Bear Creek's lack of a pool. However, in May 2007, groundbreaking began for several new additions to the school, including a pool, a second gym and a theater arts center. Also in 2007, the girls varsity track team ranked 2nd in the state for their 400 x 400.

Another notable achievement in the 2007-2008 would be the boys Cross-Country team taking second in league.

Men's Varisty Tennis also achieved being #1 in their league in both 05-06 and 06-07 season. Of this year, they lost many great players that graduated in 2007.

Other sports offered at Bear Creek include badminton cross country, track and field, basketball, tennis, golf, girls volleyball, soccer, wrestling, and girls softball.

[edit] Academic teams

Bear Creek traditionally has strong academic teams competing in Academic Decathlon, Science Olympiad, and SkillsUSA. The Academic Decathlon team reached the state tournament three out of the last five years from San Joaquin County. The Science Olympiad has reached the state tournament for the last three years, after being founded four years ago. The SkillsUSA Team has been to the state conference the past nine years and to the national conference three times out of the past four years.

The school's newspaper, The Bruin Voice, has consistently earned national recognition at newspaper conventions over the past decade, including a National Pacemaker Award. The current adviser of The Bruin Voice is Kathi Duffel.

The Speech and Debate team has done well during the past year. At each regional competition, the team placed third overall, behind Lodi and Beyer High. The team sent nine individuals to the last State tournament.