Clovis High School (Clovis, California)
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| Clovis High School | Established | 1899 |
| School type | Public |
| Principal | Pam Winter |
| Location | 1055 Fowler Ave., Clovis Clovis, California Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States, northeast of Fresno. The population is estimated to be 97,218 as of September, 2011. Clovis is located northeast of downtown Fresno, at an elevation of 361 feet .-History:... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... |
| Accreditation | WASC Western Association of Schools and Colleges The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. The Western Association of... |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| School Newspaper | The Cougar's Growl |
| Homepage | http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/chs/ |
Clovis High School, or simply “Clovis High” as it is known to the locals, was founded in 1899. It is a four-year high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Clovis, California
Clovis, California
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States, northeast of Fresno. The population is estimated to be 97,218 as of September, 2011. Clovis is located northeast of downtown Fresno, at an elevation of 361 feet .-History:...
. The school is located at 1055 Fowler Avenue.
Campus and Facilities
There are several buildings on the Clovis High campus, built in the early 1970s. Clovis High has a library media center, choir and lecture halls, and a drama room built like a small black-box theater.Clovis High School has two gymnasiums, tennis courts (resurfaced in 2007), an aquatics center, baseball field (Merriman Field), and Lamonica Stadium, which is shared with Clovis East High School.
Clovis High School's facilities are 38 years old, and, like most other high schools, troubled by graffiti, burglary, and vandalism occasionally. However, when asked to grade how well the buildings and grounds are maintained at their child’s school, 78% of parents rated the grounds as “good” to “excellent”.
Clovis High's Aquatics Center was dedicated to former coach and teacher Jim Coiner on Nov. 5, 2008.
The campus is relatively technologically advanced, with a total of 349 computers, not all of which are available to students (most student-used computers are housed in the library and the computer lab), and 121 classrooms with internet.
Recently, CHS was awarded a Career Technical Grant to create a construction careers pathway and new facilities.
Staff
The current principal at Clovis High School is Pam Winter. The vice-principal is Dr. Pa Vue.Academics
Clovis High School offers 13 Advanced Placement courses, as well as a variety of core and elective classes.Athletics
The Clovis High pep squad won back-to-back national championships in 1997 and 1998Clovis High School is part of TRAC, the Tri-River Athletic Conference.
Clovis High baseball was voted #1 in the country by USA Today in 1997 and 1998.
As of 2008, the Cougars still enjoy a moderate level of success in the field of athletics, including 10 straight years of league championships won in girls' gymnastics. The CHS boys' water polo team defeated Buchanan High School
Buchanan High School
Dr. Floyd B. Buchanan High School, known as Buchanan High School, is a four-year public high school in Clovis, California, United States. The school is part the Buchanan Educational Center, which houses approximately 5,000 students at Garfield Elementary School , Alta Sierra Intermediate School ,...
Nov. 15, 2008 to win its second CIF Championship title.
CHS teams have also won League or Valley Championships in girl’s soccer and baseball, and TRAC, Valley, Masters and State championships in wrestling. Boy's tennis won a valley championship in 1983. Baseball coach James Patrick celebrated his 500th career coaching win in 2008.
Clovis High's football coach Rich Hammond of Gilroy High was hired in March, 2009. Excluding the two disappointing years under former Coach Jerry Campbell, Clovis High has enjoyed a very high level of success. Arguably the premier program in the CIF Central Section during the 80's, 90's, and early 00's with Clovis West and Bakersfield High before the current slump. League championship or co-championship years include 80, 84, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 96, 97, 99, and 2001. Central Section championship years include 84, 91, 96, 97, 99, 02, with Clovis High being valley runner-up in 1996 and 2001. The recent slump is attributed to redistricting which has slashed enrollment, along with the firing of Coach Larry Kellom and his long-time staff.
Alumni who play or did play in the NFL include Daryle Lamonica
Daryle Lamonica
Daryle Pat Lamonica is a former American collegiate and professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League, and later in the NFL....
(for whom the Lamonica Stadium is named) Keith Poole, Stephen Spach
Stephen Spach
Stephen Spach is an American football tight end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
, and 2009 Detroit Lions draft pick from Cal, Zach Follett.
CHS wrestling is all well known with its astonishing 3 NCAA individual champions, 9 NCAA All-Americans, 9 team state titles, 21 individual state champions, 18 Valley Championships, and 79 Valley Champions.
Extracurricular and Co-curricular Activities
Clovis High students participate in a number of cocurricular activities, such as Science Fair, Science Olympiad, History Day, Forensics, Academic Decathlon, and Mock Trial.CHS also has a number of clubs. The majority of Clovis High's clubs meet rarely; however, among those extracurricularly active are the Interact Club, the Ecology club, and a number of others.
Clovis High also has an award-winning drama department, a dance repertory, and an active student leadership program.
Clovis High has an orchestra, several choirs, and a marching band. In 1983, the marching band traveled to Whitewater, Wisconsin and won second place in the Bands of America Grand National Championship, missing first place in the nation by only one-tenth of a point. The band also traveled to Washington, DC to march in the US President's Inaugural Parade in January 1977 (Jimmy Carter) and also January 1981 (Ronald Reagan). The marching band also performed in the 1986 Tournament of Roses Parade
Tournament of Roses Parade
The Tournament of Roses Parade, better known as the Rose Parade, is "America's New Year Celebration", a festival of flower-covered floats, marching bands, equestrians and a college football game on New Year's Day , produced by the non-profit Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.The annual...
.
In 1989 Clovis High's Odyssey of the Mind
Odyssey of the Mind
Odyssey of the Mind, often called OM , is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college. Team members work together at length to solve a predefined problem ; and present their solution to the problem at a competition...
team won 6th place in the world competition.
Honors
- In 2008, Clovis High's API rating increased to 803, and has set a goal of gaining 10 more points to reach an API of 813.
- Recipient of the Sudler Shield, awarded by the John Philip Sousa FoundationJohn Philip Sousa FoundationThe John Philip Sousa Foundation is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of band music internationally. The foundation administers a number of projects and awards supporting high quality band performance, conducting, and composition....
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- National Exemplary School, 1986–1987
Publications
The Cougar's Growl, Clovis High's student-produced newspaper, comes out eight times a year, and has won the International First Place Award in the Quill and Scroll News Media Evaluation, 2007–2008.The Cavalcade is Clovis High School's student-produced yearbook, and has existed for almost 100 years.
Statistics
In the 2006–07 school year, Clovis High School had an enrollment of 2,518, which has probably increased, and an average class size between 22 and 33 people.The graduation rate in 2005–06 was 94.4%.
History
From the book, Images of an Age "Community members tried unsuccessfully to form a high school district as early as 1889. At the time, families sent their sons to Santa Clara or Stockton to schools beyond eighth grade. Daughters went to San Jose, if they went at all. Then, on June 6, 1899, Lee Beal, a Jefferson Colony Farmer, and John Rutledge, a Clovis millman, led seven school districts to join in formation of one high school district. Each of the seven elected one trustee to the board. The school was named Clovis High School, although it was the union of Red Banks, Jefferson Colony, Garfield Colony, Mississippi Settlement, Wolters Colony, Temperance Colony, and Clovis.Continuing: "Seventeen high school students enrolled in classes at the Clovis school. Louis K. Webb, principal and teacher, received $120 per month. Estelle Kellogg joined the staff in September. Two students, Emory Reyburn and R.E.L. Browne, graduated in the first class of 1902. A separate Clovis High School was financed by bonds in 1903, east of the railroad track between Fourth and Fifth Streets. It was replaced in 1918."
In 1920, Clovis High School moved into new facilities on Fifth Street built by William Weeks. The High School remained in that building until 1969, when it moved to its current facilities on Fowler Avenue. The building on Fifth Street gradually fell into a state of disrepair, despite its historical significance for the Clovis Community. This unique building had churrigueresque arches which were patterned after the detailed baroque architecture of Spain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. These arches were taken down by State mandate after the 1952 Bakersfield earthquake for safety reasons. In 1995, San Joaquin College of Law
San Joaquin College of Law
San Joaquin College of Law is a private, non-profit law school in Clovis, California, US. It was founded in Fresno in 1969 by Fresno County Municipal Court Judge Dan Eyman, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger, and attorney John Loomis...
met with city leaders and negotiated a deal to bring the Law School, which was founded in 1969, to Clovis from its Fresno site. This resulted in a multi-million-dollar renovation which not only preserved the historic exterior of the building, but also preserved and reclaimed many of its unique and historic interior features.
Alumni
- Daryle LamonicaDaryle LamonicaDaryle Pat Lamonica is a former American collegiate and professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League, and later in the NFL....
, NFL Raiders Quarterback (lived in Fresno while attending Clovis High) - Johnny EstradaJohnny EstradaJohnny Pulado Estrada III is a former American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers and the Washington Nationals.Estrada was selected in the 17th round of the 1997 Major...
, All-star, pro-baseball player - Chad McCartyChad McCartyChad McCarty is a former U.S. soccer midfielder who spent six seasons in Major League Soccer. He also earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1999.-Youth and college:...
, pro-soccer player, Olympian - Mark Gardner, pro-baseball player
- Stephen SpachStephen SpachStephen Spach is an American football tight end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
, pro-football player - Keith PooleKeith PooleKeith Robert Strohmaier Poole is a former professional American football wide receiver in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints and Denver Broncos from 1997 to 2001. Poole was a stand out receiver at Clovis High School in Clovis, California and played collegiately at Arizona State alongside...
, pro-football player - Zack Follet, pro-football player
- Dr. John Taylor, (Class of 1967) British archaeologist and ancient historian. Fellow of the Royal Numismatic SocietyRoyal Numismatic SocietyThe Royal Numismatic Society is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics...
. Librarian of the Griffith InstituteGriffith InstituteThe Griffith Institute is an institution based in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford for the advancement of Egyptology as a discipline. The Griffith Institute is named after the eminent Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith, who bequeathed funds within his will for the foundation of...
. Oriental Faculty, University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, England.
Faculty, Staff, or Administrators
- Jim CrinerJim CrinerJim Criner is a former American football player and coach in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Boise State University from 1976 to 1982 and at Iowa State University from 1983 to 1986, compiling a career college football record of 76–46–3...
, college football coach - Steve WapnickSteve WapnickSteven Lee "Steve" Wapnick is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox. He held batters to a .222 batting average, holding righties to a .115 batting average.Wapnick attended Monroe High School in Sepulveda, California...
, pro-baseball player - Dick SelmaDick SelmaRichard Jay Selma was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1965-1974...
, pro-baseball player