Merced High School
| Merced High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Merced, California United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | High School |
| Established | March 14, 1922 |
| Opened | 1923 |
| School district | Merced Union High School District |
| Principal | John Olson |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,800 |
| Color(s) | Black, Orange |
| Mascot | Bears |
| Newspaper | The Scholar |
| Website | [1] |
Merced High School is located in Merced, California is a part of the Merced Union High School District. The high school district added a second high school in 1960 which was built and named El Capitan High School.
The current enrollment is over 1,800 students in grades 9 through 12 and is currently under Principal John Olson.
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Academics
The Merced High School Advanced Placement program is open for any student that wishes to be challenged in the fields of Chemistry, English, Physics, Government, Spanish, Biology, Calculus, Statistics and Studio Art. The teachers at Merced High School work very hard to ensure that their students work their hardest, which explains the high percentage of students that pass the Advanced Placement examinations with a score of 3, 4, or 5. Merced High School's Advanced Placement exam and test scores have earned it a place among the Top 1300 schools in the United States by Newsweek Magazine[1] as well as a Bronze Award from U.S. News & World Report, making it one of the top 1,800 schools in the United States.[2]
The Merced High Academic Decathlon team took the title of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Merced County Champions and competed in Sacramento in March 2015 coming in 51st place in the state of California.[3]
Special programs
The school has the Newcomer Program for newly arrived immigrants. As of February 2006, 80 students from Southeast Asia were a part of the program. Many of them were refugees from the Thamkabok refugee camp, Thailand. Many had never had formal education before, did not know how to use writing utensils, and did not know how to write their own names.[4]
Student life
As of 2006 the school has an Asian Club, which has over 100 members. It is one of the largest groups at Merced High School. The Asian Club takes end of the year school trips and holds fundraising and social events.[4]
Demographics
By January 1983, Merced High School North Campus had suddenly received over 200 Hmong refugee students, with almost all of them in English as a second language (ESL) programs. Between the northern hemisphere spring of 1982 and January 1983 the school doubled the size of its ESL program. A former assistant principal at Merced High North, said that many of the Hmong students valued education and had almost perfect school attendance.[5]
Notable Students
- Margaret Dingeldein – Member of the US Women's Olympic Waterpolo team during the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Marvin Eastman – Mixed martial arts fighter
- Duke Fergerson – Former NFL football player for the Seattle Seahawks and the Buffalo Bills
- Brian Fuentes – MLB baseball player
- Salar Kamangar - CEO of YouTube, and founding member of Google's product team[citation needed]
- Janet Leigh - Actress
- Eric A. McAfee - An entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
- Tony Slaton – Former NFL football player for the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys
References
- ↑ Newsweek Magazine's Top 1300 Schools in the United States
- ↑ US News 7 World Report: Top 1800 Schools in the United States.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Yawger, Doane. "Learning Life in U.S. - Recent Laotian Immigrant Students Getting to Know Language, Food." Merced Sun-Star. Wednesday February 22, 2006. Local A1. Retrieved on March 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Refugee students jam the schools." Merced Sun-Star. Friday January 21, 1983. Page 6. Retrieved from Google News (26 of 35) on March 11, 2012.
Further reading
- Vangay, Jonas. Hmong Parents' Cultural Attitudes and the Sex-Ratio Imbalance of Hmong Merced High School Graduates. Mong Pheng Community Inc., 1989.
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