| Name |
Quartz Hill High School |
| Address |
6040 West Avenue L |
| Location |
Quartz Hill, California |
| Established |
1964 |
| Community |
Suburban |
| Type |
Public |
| Principal |
Kreitz |
| 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 | |
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 Union High School District.
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The basic layout of Quartz Hill High School's 80-acre (320,000 m2) 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. In the school year 2008-2009, there is a reported number of over 3000 students now attending the school, some even foreign exchange students.
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.
Quartz Hill High School consists of approximately 3,200 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.
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.
Activities at Quartz Hill High School include
The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes Marching band, football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, cross country, track and field, tennis, swimming, wrestling, volleyball, golf and dance.
The mascot of Quartz Hill High School is the Rebel, a Confederate soldier. Rebel teams began interscholastic competition in the mid-1960s.
In the 2008 season, the cross country team placed 1st in Golden League for the first time in 25 years, repeating in 2009.
In the 2008 season, the volleyball team placed 1st in CIF division 3.
In 1990 the Quartz Hill High School Football team led by Jon Albee and Ken Hettinger won 8 straight games and made it to the Division One Southern Section finals in Anaheim Stadium ranked in the top 25. This was in the Golden League's first season in division one CIF football.
The 2006 Rebel baseball team was the first, and still only, baseball program from the Antelope Valley to win a C.I.F. Southern Section Championship
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.
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 February 14, 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][2]
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." 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.[3][4]