Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California)

Coordinates: 38°27′07″N 122°43′06″W / 38.45194°N 122.71833°W / 38.45194; -122.71833[1]

Santa Rosa High School
Location
Santa Rosa, California
United States
Information
Type Public secondary
Established 1874
Principal Brad Coscarelli
Enrollment 1986
Color(s) Orange and black
Mascot Panther
Website http://www.santarosahighschool.net/

Santa Rosa High School (SRHS) is a secondary school located in Santa Rosa, California. It is part of the Santa Rosa City High School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools. The main administration is formed by the Principal (Brad Coscarelli), a Vice Principal (Monica Baldenegro) and Assistant Principals (Forrest Harper, Karolina Gage & James Madden). According to Santa Rosa City Schools, SRHS has 1,986 students, which is the largest school in the North Bay region.

History

SRHS was the only public high school for Santa Rosa from 1874 to 1958. Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), located on the adjacent property, was actually a part of Santa Rosa High School from 1918 to 1927.[2]

The school had several locations. The previous location on Humboldt Street burned to the ground in 1921. The school was moved to its current location and opened in 1924. The current school's design Brick Gothic, with soaring white columns towering over the triple entryway and the addition of gargoyles in niches near the roof, was created by W. H. Weeks in 1922. There are many more recent additions to the school, some copying the original design and others with more modern design and flavor.

Academics

Santa Rosa High School is an academic leader in Santa Rosa, having had for nine consecutive years the district's highest SAT scores, the streak ending in 1973. Santa Rosa High School has an API rating of 751. On-campus tutoring is available through an arrangement with Sonoma State University.[3]

In 2011 Santa Rosa High School received the California Distinguished School and the California Career Technical Awards.

In 2015 Santa Rosa High School received the California Gold Ribbon Award, which replaced the California Distinguished Schools Award as the highest award a school can receive from the state of California. Only two other high schools in the county received this award in its inaugural year.

There is also a branch of SRHS called ArtQuest (see section below), a specialized academic program focused on Visual Fine Arts, Drama, Dance, Music (vocal and instrumental), and Multimedia/Video.

Athletics: The Santa Rosa Panthers

Santa Rosa High School offers a wide variety of athletic programs and competes in the 5-A North Bay League of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.

The Santa Rosa High Fight Song

Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, fight on for your fame!
Pass the ball right down the center,
Touch down sure this time,
Rah, rah, rah!
Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, fight on for your fame!
Fight, fellas, fight, fight, fight!
We'll win this game!

Nevers Field

Ernie Nevers attended Santa Rosa High School, where he excelled in football. In 1920, as a senior, he led the team to the NCS Championships. He went on to attend Stanford University, and play for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. In 1925 the football field at Santa Rosa High School was renamed Nevers Field in his honor. In 2004, just in time for the homecoming game, a $2 million refurbishment of Nevers Field was completed. The improvements included an artificial turf, an all-weather 8-lane track, new bleachers, a snack bar and ticket booth, restrooms, and lights for night games.

ArtQuest Program

Santa Rosa High School is well known for its award-winning ArtQuest program. This district-supported program allows students to take classes with specialty course work in the arts, including Visual Fine Arts, Dance, Theatre Arts, Photography, Instrumental and Vocal Music, Digital Arts, and the Video program. It was recently awarded the prestigious Jack London Award for Educational Excellence.

School Newspaper

Santa Rosa High School has a successful journalism class that produces newspapers about once a month. Entitled The Santa Rosan, it has consistently won awards at the annual Press Democrat competition, among others, and in 2012 won second overall. The program is run by Casey Elsa, who also teaches English at the high school.

Clubs

Santa Rosa High School has several student-organized and teacher-supervised clubs, ranging from many different subjects:[4]

In the Movies

Santa Rosa High School was used for several Hollywood movies, including Peggy Sue Got Married and Inventing the Abbotts. For the filming of Peggy Sue Got Married, the production company paid for a complete restoration of the school's aging gothic facade, including repair and replacement of the many gargoyle figures.

Director Wes Craven applied for the use of Santa Rosa High School and reached a verbal agreement with the principal of the school for the filming of his 1996 horror film Scream. Just days before filming was to begin, the school board denied permission for the use of the school. In response, the city, previously popular as a film setting, was blacklisted in Hollywood and in the closing credits of Scream, following the listing of organizations and individuals whom the filmmakers wished to thank, Craven included the note, "No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board".

Foundation

The Santa Rosa High School Foundation is a special group of alumni who take an active interest in SRHS.[5] The Foundation helps raise money for school programs and other services.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California)
  2. ↑ SRHSF.org
  3. ↑ Santarosahigh.org
  4. ↑ Santarosahigh.org
  5. ↑ SRHSF.org
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