Cupertino High School

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Cupertino High School
Location
Cupertino, California, USA
Information
Principal Kami Samaniego
Enrollment

1610
Faculty 129
Type Public 4-year
Mascot Dusty the Prospector
Color(s) Maroon, Gold, and Gray
Established 1958
Location 10100 Finch Avenue
Homepage http://www.chs.fuhsd.org/

Cupertino High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the Rancho Rinconada neighborhood of Cupertino, California, USA. It is part of the Fremont Union High School District. The school serves mostly suburban residential and IT-enriched areas in eastern Cupertino, southern Santa Clara, and west San Jose. It has been named a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education in 1990, 1994, and 2007.

Cupertino High School opened in 1958 with 700 9th and 10th graders with George Fernandez as principal. Cupertino has a student body of 1610. It offers a wide range of academic subjects and extracurricular activities, such as FBLA and Key Club.

Its main rival is Monta Vista High School, and sometimes, Lynbrook High School.

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[edit] Academics

Like most other American high schools, Cupertino is a four-year high school that consists of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes.

Cupertino offers many AP and Honors classes including AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP French, AP Chinese, AP Japanese, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science, AP English Literature, and AP Economics. Many students finish Calculus by their junior year, and a handful finish an advanced placement foreign language class in their third year as well.

The student run school newspaper is "The Prospector", and the yearbook is the "Nugget". Cupertino High School boasts an award winning drama program, Cupertino Actors' Theatre, that produces plays and musicals, provides educational theatre workshops for English classes, and many opportunities for performance and design for students considering a career in the performing arts.

As of 1999, Cupertino High school began providing a program to help students with special needs, especially Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. This class, Academic Communications, provided them with an opportunity to learn basic life skills and how to apply for jobs. It is run by Kaaren Miller.

In 2007 Cupertino High School was ranked 566, in Newsweek Best High Schools.

[edit] Clubs

HONOR:
California Scholarship Federation
Chinese Honor Society
Japanese Honor Society
National Honor Society
Societe Honoraire Francais
Spanish Honor Society

SERVICE:
Interact Club (Rotary)
Key Club (Kiwanis)
Leo (Lions)
STARS
YATA (Youth Activists Take Action)

INTERESTS:
Anime Club
Best Buddies
Calculus D
Cancer Awareness Among Teens
Chess Club
Chinese Club
Christian Club
CHS Artists
CHS Mathematics
Cooking Club
Desi Club
Electronics Club
Future Business Leaders of America
Gay-Straight Alliance
Students for Self Advocacy
Innovation of Art
Japanese Club
JETS
Junior States of America
Korean Club
Latino Student Union
Mural Club
Music Appreciation
Muslim Student Association
Quad A
Red Cross
Speech and Debate
Students Education Enthusiasm Kids (SEEK)
Students Working Against Tobacco
Thespian Society
Tino-Net
Vietnamese Student Association
Writer's Guild
Yourquad

[edit] Schedule

Cupertino High has a unique schedule. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays are regular days, starting at 7:35 and ending at 2:55. However, Wednesdays and Thursdays are special "block days." On Wednesdays, school starts at 9:00 and students only attend periods 2,4, and 6 (each 80 minutes in length). On Thursdays, school starts at normal time and students attend periods 1, 3, 5, and 7. On both block days, there are also tutorial periods, which students may either spend studying in their designated classrooms or traveling to another classroom through the use of a tutorial pass. Currently, the tutorial pass system has been abandoned and a new system called "open tutorial" has been instituted.[citation needed] This just means that tutorial passes are no longer needed to travel from class to class. In past years, the schedule had been set up with the odd period block day on Tuesdays to correspond with that of Lynbrook High School. This was to allow students to take classes at Lynbrook if they so chose. However, there was very little demand for this, so the schedule was changed to its current format.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Athletes

[edit] Entertainment, News Media, and Music

[edit] Politics

  • John Doolittle - Congressman from California's 4th district since 1991
  • Fred Keeley - Assemblyman, California's 27th District from 1996-2002

[edit] External links


Fremont Union High School District

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