Fresno High School
Location
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1839 N. Echo Ave.
Fresno, California 93704

United States
Coordinates36°46′02″N 119°48′19″W / 36.7672°N 119.80536°W / 36.7672; -119.80536
Information
School typePublic
Established1889; 135 years ago (1889)[2]
School districtFresno Unified School District
PrincipalAmy Smith
Teaching staff82.95 (FTE)[3]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,214[3] (2020-2021)
Student to teacher ratio26.69[3]
Color(s)   
MascotWarrior
RivalRoosevelt High School
AccreditationWASC[1]
NewspaperThe Owlet
Additional AccreditationInternational Baccalaureate[4]
WebsiteFHS

Fresno High School is a four-year secondary school located in Fresno, California. It is part of the Fresno Unified School District. Fresno High is the oldest high school in the Fresno metropolitan area and one of the few International Baccalaureate schools. As of 2023, Amy Smith is the 30th and current principal of Fresno High.

Fresno High was founded in 1889 as the first secondary school in Fresno county.

History

Fresno High School was founded in 1889.[5] The new school quickly outgrew the available space and had to be moved to the White School, where the Memorial Auditorium is located today. Plans for a new high school building were developed.

Colored Postcard of Fresno High School in 1896

In September 1896, the school year began in the new building on 0 Street between Stanislaus and Tuolumne streets. The new back structure, with its clock tower, had the latest and most modern facilities, including a chemistry laboratory, gymnasium, library, and lecture hall.

In 1922, the school moved to its present site at 1839 North Echo Avenue, near Palm and McKinley Avenues. Fresno High School is surrounded by large homes (originally one of Fresno's affluent areas) and large Fresno ash and pine trees. On October 15, 2002, the historic Royce Hall building caught fire and suffered minimal damage.[6]

The campus is divided into several components. The two main components are "South Side" and "North Side", named so from their campus location.[7] South Side campus houses Title I offices, the business, foreign language, science, and mathematics divisions. The North Side houses English, social sciences, art, and history divisions. Physical education, leadership and JROTC are housed on the westernmost portion of the campus. The drama and music divisions, in addition to various miscellaneous classrooms, are attached to Fresno High's historic Royce Hall. There is a little known fallout shelter entrance at the rear of the handball courts, (in the middle where the metal grate is on the ground), that goes down stairs to a door that leads under "goat hill" and then under Royce Hall.

Renovations to Royce Hall were completed for the 2018–2019 school year. They were worked on throughout the 2017–2018 school year. The goal was to give the historic hall a modernization which included new carpeting, acoustic sound paneling, a sound booth located near the auditorium entrance and the removal and relocation of a handicap elevator to make more room for stair access to the stage.

Academics

Fresno High School offers its students the full International Baccalaureate diplomas.[4] The school has been offering its graduate students full IB diplomas since June 2007. The campus offers several advanced placement courses and requires the study of foreign language in order to receive a diploma, along with the completion of a 4,000 word essay and 150 hours of community service. The campus has received poor academic achievement scores in the past, but has shown improvement.[8] The campus employs 133 full- and part-time instructors, in addition to several guidance counselors, classified staff, administrative employees, one full-time psychologist and one full-time family therapist.[9] The curriculum has been broadened to meet the needs of the world's professions. However the opportunity to pursue a classical education, including the study of Latin, is still available to the students of Fresno High School. The campus offers Spanish, Latin and Hmong language courses.

Extracurricular activities

Performing arts

Fresno High is home to numerous Performing Arts which are offered to students as elective courses. Performing arts courses that are offered currently consist of: Theater, which includes IB Level options, Piano 1&2, Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Intermediate Symphonic Orchestra, Advanced Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Choir and Chamber Choir.

Sports

Fresno High is an active athletic school, maintaining several teams for both boys and girls in addition to several co-ed teams. The Fresno High football team continues its rivalry game against Roosevelt High School, known as the Little Big Game. The Little Big Game is also known as the Pig Game. It is an annual game in which Fresno High plays against its rival Roosevelt High School for a pig statue to hold for that year. The pig was at one time stolen from Fresno High's attendance office and a replacement was made.[10] The campus offers Prep and Cheer, football, cross country, soccer (valley champion 2010–2011 season), baseball, golf, tennis, water polo, softball teams, basketball, track and field, swim, badminton, and a lacrosse team.

Notable alumni

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (October 2021)

References

  1. ^ "Directory of Schools 2005–2006" (PDF). Western Association of Schools and Colleges. June 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  2. ^ "FHS History". Fresno High School. Archived from the original on 2007-11-24. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  3. ^ a b c "Fresno High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Fresno High School". International Baccalaureate. Retrieved 2008-01-07. IB school code: 001469; Fresno High School has been an IB World School since July 2003.
  5. ^ "History of Fresno High". www.fresnohighalumni.com. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  6. ^ "ABC 30 Fresno October 15, 2002". YouTube.
  7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2007-12-31.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2007-12-31.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "Teaching Staff". Archived from the original on 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  10. ^ Anthony Witrado (2004-04-21). "Celebrated Pig Trophy stolen from Fresno High". The Fresno Bee.
  11. ^ Read, Colin (2015). The Corporate Financiers: Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen and Meckling. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-137-34128-0.
  12. ^ a b c "FRESNO FIRST PULITZER PURSUIT". The Fresno Bee. 1988-02-28.
  13. ^ "Dick Contino's Home Page". Archived from the original on 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  14. ^ "Dick Ellsworth Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  15. ^ "Fresno State Gets $1 Million Bequest." Central Valley Business Times. October 16, 2010. Accessed 2013-08-10.
  16. ^ a b Dave Anderson (1987-06-01). "Irabu? Mets Prefer Jones, Thank You All the Same". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  17. ^ Skip Kenney, Iconic Stanford and Olympic Swimming Coach, Dies at 79
  18. ^ King, Robert B. (1995). "ARTHUR S. KING". Biographical Memoirs V. 68. National Academy of Sciences. p. 181. ISBN 0-309-05239-4.
  19. ^ Kinter, Earl Wilson (1958). Organized professional team sports : hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly... Washington: U.S. G.P.O. p. 340. OCLC 13041594.
  20. ^ Lee, Lawrence; Barry Gifford (2005). Saroyan: A Biography. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 317. ISBN 1-56025-761-X.
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