Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California)

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Santa Rosa High School
Established 1874
Type Public secondary
Principal Mr. James Goddard
Students 1,550
Grades 9–12
Location Santa Rosa, California, USA
District Santa Rosa City Schools
Colors Orange and black
Mascot Panther
Website http://www.santarosahigh.org/

Santa Rosa High School (SRHS) is a secondary school located in Santa Rosa, California. It is part of the Santa Rosa City School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools. The principal is Mr. James Goddard, formerly Vice Principal at Maria Carrillo High School. The Vice Principal at SRHS is Mr. Brad Coscarelli, the two Assistant Principals are Ms. Monica Baldenegro and Mr. Alan W. Nealley, Jr. According to the Santa Rosa City Schools District, SRHS has 1550 students.

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Dr. Anton Negri served as principal for several years before retiring in June of 2007. He was known for having a lot of school spirit, including painting his black sedan with an orange flame decal in honor of the two school colors, and owning a wardrobe composed almost entirely of orange clothing. He was also known as the go-to-guy for peanut M&M's.

Santa Rosa High School is one of the oldest high schools in all of California, having been the ninth high school chartered in the state's 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. [1]

The school had several locations. The last location on Humbolt Street burned to the ground in 1921. The school was moved to its current location and opened in 1924. The current school's Brick Gothic design 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.

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 a high API rating of 696. On campus tutoring is available through an arrangement with Sonoma State University. [2]

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.

Recently, Santa Rosa High has been noted for an unprecedented winning streak in Panther history, having a record of 5-1. A school who's reputation was noted for it's overwhelming spirit and average team finally defeated as the underdog and become a valiant force in the 07 fall sports season in Sonoma County.

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 dollar 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.

Santa Rosa High School is well known for its ArtQuest program. This district-supported program, with specialty course work in Visual Fine Arts, Dance, Drama, Photography Instrumental and Vocal Music, Multimedia, and the multi-award winning Video program. It was recently awarded the prestigious Jack London Award for Educational Excellence.

Santa Rosa High School has several student-organized and teacher-supervised clubs, ranging from many different subjects. The following is a list of clubs at Santa Rosa High as of September, 2006 [3]:

  • Amnesty International
  • Academic Decathlon
  • Art
  • Asian
  • Astronomy
  • Bicycle Club
  • Black Student Union
  • California Scholarship Federation
  • Celtic Nations
  • Dance
  • Dodgeball
  • Drama
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Environmental
  • Folk Dance
  • French
  • Future Farmers of America
  • Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
  • Gifted and Talented Education Program (GATE)
  • Harry Potter
  • InterKey
  • Invisible Children Club
  • Junior Statesmen of America (JSA)
  • Martial Arts
  • Math
  • Outdoor Club
  • Bike
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Rugby
  • Safe Schools Alliance
  • SAT (Headed by David Dinh)
  • Science Symposium
  • Spanish
  • Speech & Debate
  • Swing

Santa Rosa High School was used for several Hollywood movies, including Peggy Sue got Married and Inventing the Abbots. 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 made a verbal contract with the principal of the school for the filming of Scream. Just days before filming was to begin the school board denied permission for the use of the school, citing concern for the younger, more sensitive students' reactions to images of horror and death in their school's hallways. In response, the city, previously popular as a film setting, was blacklisted in Hollywood and Craven included in the closing credits of Scream the note "And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa School Board."

The Santa Rosa High School Foundation is a special group of alumni who take an active interest in SRHS. [4] The Foundation helps raise money for school programs and other services.

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