Temecula Valley High

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Temecula Valley High School is a public high school for grades 9-12 in Temecula, California. The school opened in 1983 as the community's first high school, along with Margarita Middle School and Temecula Elementary School. When it was built, it was a part of the Elsinore Union High School District (now the Lake Elsinore Unified School District) until the Temecula Valley Unified School District was founded. It is a California Distinguished School.

In 2007 Temecula Valley had some 3200 students and 150 teachers and staff members. Bryan Kalicki is the current principal. The school's mascot is the Golden Bears, a take on the tradition handed down by the University of California, Berkeley. In August 2007, Temecula Valley High opened a new multi-million dollar gym. The school is currently building a new theater. Newsweek ranks Temecula as number 984 in its top 1000 schools in America.[citation needed] The school is one of the three high schools in the Temecula Valley Unified School District along with Chaparral and Great Oak High School.

Notable alumni who had attended this school: Christy Hemme (Former WWE Diva), now working on the TNA Knockouts! roster.