Great Oak High School
| Great Oak High School | |
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32555 Deer Hollow Way Temecula, California, 92592 United States | |
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| Established | 2004 |
| School district | Temecula Valley Unified School District |
| Principal | Keith Moore and Marc Horton |
| Grades | 9th - 12th |
| Enrollment | 3,600+ |
| Color(s) | True Red, Navy Blue, White |
| Mascot | Wolfpack |
| Rival | Temecula Valley High School[1] |
| Website | Great Oak High School |
Great Oak High School, opened in 2004, lies at the base of Wolf Valley in Temecula, California, USA, in Riverside County in the Temecula Valley Unified School District. In 2009 and 2010, Great Oak High School was listed in Newsweek's annual top 1000 high schools in America. GOHS was ranked #700 in 2010.
Great Oak also offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Currently, the High School is a Nationally Recognized IB World School.
Athletics
Great Oak High School's athletic teams are known as the Wolfpack and compete in California's CIF Southern Section. The school has boy's football, girl's and boy's basketball, girl's volleyball, girl's and boy's tennis, girl's and boy's water polo, girl's and boy's swimming, girls and boy's golf, girl's and boy's soccer, track and field, cross country, boy's wrestling, baseball and softball, and girl's and boy's lacrosse.
State titles
- Girls Cross Country: Ranked #1 in the nation at some point during the season in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014. 2nd at Nike Cross Nationals in 2014.
- Boys Cross Country: Ranked #3 in the nation for the boys
Activities
Since 2006, the school offers the International Baccalaureate Programme. It is an IB World School.
Great Oak High School offers a Speech & Debate Club that regularly competes within the Citrus Belt Speech Region. They are currently ranked 19th in the National Forensics League Southern California District. In Debate they compete in Congressional Debate, Parliamentary Debate, and Public Forum Debate. For Speech the events they compete in are Original Oratory, Original Advocacy, Oratorical Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Thematic Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, and Impromptu. In 2010-2011 they've sent 2 Students to the California High School Speech Association's State Tournament while in 2011-2012 they've sent 1.
At the California High School Speech Association's 54th State Tournament Great Oak had its first finalist win. Christian Abueg placed 7th in the Speech Tournament against over 1,000 praiseworthy speakers from all over the state.[2]
Campus construction/accommodations
The school has 124 classrooms of which several are specialized to meet the requirements of the curriculum including 6 open-use computer labs; 2 business computer labs; 14 science labs; a library; a foods and nutrition kitchen; ROTC with office and wardrobe rooms; 3 art rooms (1 ceramics); a computer repair classroom; TV Video production studio; a print shop; drafting room; construction technology; gymnasium (includes dance room, wrestling room, and weight room); and the performing arts complex (includes band room, choir room, and drama). The campus also includes athletic fields for baseball, softball, and soccer, outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, sand volleyball courts, 8 outdoor tennis courts and a stadium with a synthetic turf football/soccer field and rubberized track. A swim complex was completed in 2005.
Notable People
Xenia Martinez - Singer
Matthew Mabee - Comedian/TV Personality
References
- ↑ Shultz, Craig. "Sugar Bowl Not Always Sweet". Californian. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ↑ FISCHETTI, PETER. "TEMECULA: Student wows speech judges". Press Enterprise. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
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