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The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes [[American football|football]], [[baseball]], [[softball]], [[basketball]], [[soccer]], [[cross country running|cross country]], [[athletics (track and field)|track and field]], [[tennis]], [[swimming]], [[wrestling]], [[volleyball]] and [[golf]]. |
The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes [[American football|football]], [[baseball]], [[softball]], [[basketball]], [[soccer]], [[cross country running|cross country]], [[athletics (track and field)|track and field]], [[tennis]], [[swimming]], [[wrestling]], [[volleyball]] and [[golf]]. |
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The Quartz Hill High Swim team, won the Golden League Championship once again (the 10th year in a row) and went undefeated for their 6th season in 2006. Coaches Jennifer James and Mark Thibault retired at the end of the season. The Quartz Hill High tennis team, both boys and girls, has gone undefeated in their Golden League for many years. In 2006, the baseball team started the season ranked #13 in all of Southern California #2 in Division II of [[California Interscholastic Federation]]-Southern Section. The boys team ended up winning the CIF title of first place June 3rd. The same year one wrestler place 4th place at CIF and subsequently made it to the CIF Masters Division. In that same year Junior Dillon Bennewitz was the only track team |
The Quartz Hill High Swim team, won the Golden League Championship once again (the 10th year in a row) and went undefeated for their 6th season in 2006. Coaches Jennifer James and Mark Thibault retired at the end of the season. The Quartz Hill High tennis team, both boys and girls, has gone undefeated in their Golden League for many years. In 2006, the baseball team started the season ranked #13 in all of Southern California #2 in Division II of [[California Interscholastic Federation]]-Southern Section. The boys team ended up winning the CIF title of first place June 3rd. The same year one wrestler place 4th place at CIF and subsequently made it to the CIF Masters Division. In that same year Junior Dillon Bennewitz was the only track team thrower in the last 4 years to qualify for CIF, however and elbow injury prevented him from performing to his full potential and moving on to Masters. Senior Alexandra Erdman also went on to CIF in Womens Golf, Pole Vaulting, and High Jumping receiving scholarships for all three and accepting only the Golf scholarship. |
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Revision as of 07:04, 20 September 2006
| Name |
Quartz Hill High School |
| Address |
6040 West Avenue L |
| Location |
Quartz Hill, California |
| Established |
1964 |
| Community |
Suburban |
| Type |
Public |
| Principal |
Mark Bryant |
| Grades |
9 to 12 |
| Accreditation |
Western Association of Schools and Colleges |
| Mascot |
The Rebel |
| Colors |
Blue and Gold |
| Newspaper |
The Ubiquity |
| Yearbook |
The Cavalier |
| Website | |
Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Quartz Hill, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD).
Campus
The basic layout of Quartz Hill High School's eighty-acre campus is a courtyard surrounded by several quads and athletic buildings, a design that is typical of high schools in Southern California. The school's campus was originally designed for 1,800 students, but over two times that number are currently enrolled.
From the summer of 2003 to the fall of 2004, Quartz Hill High School's campus underwent a $15 million modernization that updated the majority of the school's classrooms.
Student Body
Quartz Hill High School consists of appoximately 3,900 students, and the school's population is growing. Most of the school's students live in Quartz Hill, Palmdale and Lancaster, cities in the Antelope Valley of northern Los Angeles County.
- American Indian: 0.8%
- Pacific Islander: 0.03%
- Filipino: 1.8%
- Asian: 3.2%
- African American: 8.4%
- Hispanic: 15.3%
- White: 70.2%
Academics
Quartz Hill High School is one of 65 high schools in California to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme, which began at the school in 1998. Advanced Placement (AP) classes are also available in nearly all academic departments.
Quartz Hill High School is consistently ranked as the top school in its district and one of the top schools in the state according to the Academic Performance Index.
Quartz Hill High School is the only school in the district to have a student receive a perfect score on the SATs.
Activities
Activities at Quartz Hill High School include
- Associated Student Body (ASB), which organizes dances, assemblies and other events that promote school spirit
- American Cancer Society (ACS)
- National Honor Society (NHS)
- Model United Nations
- Animal Rights Club
- Drama Club
- Amnesty International Club
- Key Club
- Hiking Club
- Young Democrats Club
- Young Republicans Club
- Anime Club
- Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
- Go Club
- Future Farmers of America (FFA)
- Multicultural Club
- The Ubiquity, a student-run newspaper
- Cavalier, the class that produces the school's yearbook
- California Scholarship Federation (CSF)
- Spanish Club
- French Club
- German Club
- Asian Pacific Club
- Game Club
- Four Square Club
Sports
The mascot of Quartz Hill High School is the Rebel, a confederate soldier.
The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, cross country, track and field, tennis, swimming, wrestling, volleyball and golf.
The Quartz Hill High Swim team, won the Golden League Championship once again (the 10th year in a row) and went undefeated for their 6th season in 2006. Coaches Jennifer James and Mark Thibault retired at the end of the season. The Quartz Hill High tennis team, both boys and girls, has gone undefeated in their Golden League for many years. In 2006, the baseball team started the season ranked #13 in all of Southern California #2 in Division II of California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section. The boys team ended up winning the CIF title of first place June 3rd. The same year one wrestler place 4th place at CIF and subsequently made it to the CIF Masters Division. In that same year Junior Dillon Bennewitz was the only track team thrower in the last 4 years to qualify for CIF, however and elbow injury prevented him from performing to his full potential and moving on to Masters. Senior Alexandra Erdman also went on to CIF in Womens Golf, Pole Vaulting, and High Jumping receiving scholarships for all three and accepting only the Golf scholarship.
Mission statements
Mission Statement: The mission of Quartz Hill High School is to produce responsible citizens who are able to communicate effectively, set and achieve realistic goals, and who become life long learners.
Vision Statement: Quartz Hill High School desires to provide the staff with training, instruction and modeling to improve the instructional strategies, curriculum offerings, and learning for all students. It is the school’s vision that all students will reinforce their fundamental academic skills through the use of appropriate instruction, current technology, and an environment most conducive to learning. The school desires to equip staff with the skills which will assist in providing all students opportunities for post-high school success.
Planned school attack
On December 15, 2005, two former Quartz Hill students were arrested for planning a Columbine style massacre at the school. The two youths allegedly intended to attack the school on St. Valentine's Day of 2006. News reports described them as goths and indicated that they had accumulated knives, ammunition, a gas mask and bomb-making instructions. They were charged on December 19, 2005 with conspiracy to commit murder. [1]
Tensions flared again on January 13, 2006, when a rumor that the former students who had been arrested would again attempt to attack the school using pipe-bombs. According to Principal Mark Bryant, the planned attacks were merely "rumor, upon rumor, upon rumor", as the two youths are still being held in custody. This "Friday the 13th" rumor was passed between students via internet messages and cell-phone text messages. In response to the threat, nearly 50% of the student body was absent from the campus by the time the school day had finished. In the end, the only disruption to the day was a firecracker explosion within a trash can during the school's lunch break. [2]
Notable alumni
- Michelle Perry - Silver medalist in heptathlon, at NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2001 [3], competitor in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Rick Garcia, nightly news anchor for KCOP 13 (UPN) Los Angeles
- Nancy Spencer - Also known as Tyla Wynn, an adult film star who has appeared in over 165 adult films.
- Dr. Shane Crotty - Noted author and cancer researcher.