Murrieta Valley High School

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Location
Murrieta Valley High School
Murrieta, California, USA
Information
Principal	Renate Jefferson
Students	3,583
Type	Public
Established	1990
Colors	Black and Red
Homepage	[1]

1 Mission
2 Campus
3 Instructional Goals
4 Feeder Schools
5 Clubs and Activities
6 Famous alumni
7 External links

[edit] Mission

The mission at Murrieta Valley High School is to always do things the "R.I.T.E. way the Nighthawk way" – RITE is an acronym which stands for Respect, Integrety, Teamwork, and Exellence. Students are always encouraged to serve others and to strive to become better students through Hardwork, Analytical thinking, being Worthy citizens and Knowledgable communicators, or "H.A.W.K."

[edit] Campus

The MVHS campus is housed on 52 acres and has 152 classrooms including mrs.watsons with a blue wall fasho, computer labs, technology labs, photo labs, a video production studio, automotive shop, classrooms for ceramics, food and clothing classes, science labs, and a small performing arts center. Athletic facilities include a swimming pool, gymnasium, football stadium, soccer fields, a running track, softball fields and basketball courts. In addition, the school has a library, cafeteria, administrative offices, and a staff lounge.

[edit] Instructional Goals

Our commitment is to meet the needs of every student and to create an atmosphere where learning and excellence are the norm. Our focus is to motivate, educate and prepare students for college. If a student is prepared for the highest academic level, all post-high school options are available. The district support center staff, teachers, lead teachers, mentors, school support staff, administrators and parents are all actively involved in providing focus, resources, research data and instructional training for the continuous improvement of the instructional program at MVHS.

[edit] Feeder Schools

Elementary: Murrieta Elementary, Cole Canyon, Tovashal, E. Hale Curran, and Avaxat
Middle: Thompson Middle School^{[Thompson Home]}, Shivela Middle School^{[Shivela Home]}

[edit] Clubs and Activities

Murrieta Valley High School offers a wide array of clubs and activities[2].

ASB: ASB stands for the Associate Student Body. Through this class MVHS runs most of its student activities and business. ASB is headed by Geniel Moon, the Activities Director, and is run by elected and appointed student positions. These include but are not limited to: ASB President, Katherine Nguyen; V. President, Grace Koval; Secretary, Megan Griffin; Finance, Katie Teets; Commissioners of Publicity, Dallas Moon; Clubs/Funds, Kellie Ditch; Activities, Jon Conde-Haley Hemrich; and Pep, Danny Stuppy-Joelle James-Aubree Harbison
Football: MVHS offers Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Varsity Football. The Varsity team is headed by Coach Lance Neal, who took over in the 2006 season after former coach Wally Clark retired. Notable performances include one semi-final, and six quarter final playoff appearances. Also, professional football player Jorge Cordova hails from MVHS. Neal was terminated as head coach at the end of the 2008 school year and was replaced by Coach Ireland.
Mock Trial: The Murrieta Valley Mock Trial team has been around since 1999 under teacher-coach Mary Byun-Kallevig. Originally starting strong, they made the Riverside County "Elite 8" round in both 1999 and 2000. The program then diminished and did not make the quarterfinals again until 2005, where they lost. After a poor finish in 2006, the team came under new leadership. Thom Scher, a senior, became captain and the team made it all the way to Round 7 (Finals) where they lost to King High School[3]. The 2008 team is under the leadership of Kim Sokolich, Heather White, and Sara Connors, all juniors. As of March 1st, 2008, the team had qualified for its second straight final round, this time against Temecula Valley High School.

Murrieta Valley Mock Trial also has the following alumni in AMTA, The Intercollegiate Mock Trial Circuit [4]: Vanessa Ovalle (Cornell University); Thom Scher (Stanford University); Paul Vollmer (UCLA).