San Clemente High School (San Clemente, California)

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San Clemente High School
School type	Public
Established	1964
District	Capistrano Unified School District
Grades	9 through 12
Principal	George Duarte
Students	3,150
Colors	Black and Red
Mascot	Tritons
Location	San Clemente, California
Website	www.sctritons.com

San Clemente High School is a high school located in southern Orange County, California in the town of San Clemente.

Located in a historic beach community famous for its climate and surf, San Clemente High’s current attendance boundaries include the City of San Clemente and portions of Capistrano Beach and San Juan Capistrano. The school has an enrollment of approximately 3,150 students.

The school was opened in 1964, making it the oldest High School in South Orange County. The first graduating class was the class of 1965. In 1996, San Clemente High was noted as one of the few remaining “small town” high schools in Southern California. In 1999, the school was nominated as a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

In 2004 Newsweek Magazine ranked San Clemente High school number 533 out of the 1,000 best high schools in the United States.^[1]

The school participates in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, Model United Nations, National Honor Society, California Scholarship Federation (CSF), National Merit Scholars, Early Childhood Education Academy, Business Pathway, Automotive Technology Academy, Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program.

The school offers the following Advanced Placement (AP) Courses: AP Economics (Macro and Micro), AP Psychology, AP Environmental Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP European History, AP Art History, AP Spanish Language IV and V, AP French Language IV, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics

The school offers the following IB Courses: IB literature, IB Math Studies, IB Math Analysis, Theory of Knowledge (TOK), IB Latin American 20th Century, IB Music, IB Music Appreciation

1 Departments
2 Notable alumni
3 Trivia
4 Gallery
5 Notes
6 External links

[edit] Departments

The school has a national champion dance team, national champion surf team, and nationally-ranked athletic teams, which include wrestling, football, boy's/girl's waterpolo and swimteam, girl's soccer, girl's basketball, girl's volleyball, and girl's golf. It's home to anAcademic Decathlonteam, a MACYs Award-Winning Drama Department, and a top-ranked music department, which includes Concert Band, Concert Orchestra, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Pete Jackson. It is ranked in the top 1.3% of High Schools nationwide.^{[citation needed]}

Also Recently the San Clemente JV cheer sqaud has won first place at a National Competition.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable alumni

Rian Johnson, screenwriter, Brick
Jorge Garcia, actor, LOST
MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County Star Tessa Keller currently attends SCHS.
Masafumi Kawaguchi

[edit] Trivia

The 2006 independent film Brick was filmed on the school grounds.

Graduates from San Clemente High school have been accepted to Universities such as: Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, USC, UCLA, UC Irvine, Stanford, Duke, Tufts, UC Berkeley, Boston College, Pomona College, Pitzer College, Northwestern, Notre Dame, United Air Force Academy, Georgetown, Vassar, University of Pennsylvania, Colgate University, Colby University, Cornell University, and Princeton.