Elsie Allen High School (EAHS) is a High School

High school

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 located in Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

 at 599 Bellevue Ave. It is part of the Santa Rosa High School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools

Santa Rosa City Schools

Santa Rosa City Schools are the combination of two school districts in Santa Rosa, California: the Santa Rosa Elementary School District and the Santa Rosa High School District...

. The primary feeder school is Cook Middle School.

The school is named after Elsie Allen

Elsie Allen

Elsie Allen was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California, significant as for historically categorizing and teaching Californian Indian basket patterns and techniques and sustaining traditional Pomo basketry as an art...

, a master Pomo basketry weaver, author, sage, and member of Sonoma County's indigenous Pomo tribe. Allen authored the book Pomo Basketmaking: A Supreme Art For The Weaver (Naturegraph Publishers, Happy Camp, CA; 87961-016-6.) The school namesake was suggested by long-time Santa Rosa resident, Dan Shay, at the behest of the Santa Rosa City School District.

The school yearbook is called Phoenix and has been published annually in the spring since 1995. The school newspaper goes by the name The Tracker and has been published continuously since fall 1994. The school graduated its first class in 1997

Mascot:
Lobo (Spanish for "wolf")

Administration

Elsie Allen High School's first Principal was Carnell Edwards.
Current Principal Mary Gail Stablein will be starting her 9th year at the school. The Vice Principal is Martin Cassity who was previously an Assistant Principal here and the two assistant principals are Gabriel Albavera and Harriet Gray, former principal of Lawrence Cook Middle School.

Clubs

• CSF
  CSF
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• Chocoholics
• Black Student Union (BSU)
• Christan Club
• Clean Team
• Drama Club
• FFA
• French Club
• Interact
• Key Club
  Key Club
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• Rowdy Rooters
• Rugby Club
• Gay-Straight Alliance
  Gay-straight alliance
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Sports

• Fall
  • Cheerleading
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Women's Golf
  • Women's Tennis
  • Soccer
  • Volleyball
• Winter
  • Basketball
  • Rugby
  • Wrestling
• Spring
  • Baseball
  • Badminton
  • Men's Golf
  • Men's Tennis
  • Swimming
  • Track&Field

Mascot: Lobo

Mexican Wolf

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University Center Program

The University Center is a program designed to provide an intensive preparatory and college education. The program offers a curriculum with many honours and AP classes as well as enrollment in university courses while still in high school.

The University Center (UC) is a joint endeavor of Santa Rosa City Schools

Santa Rosa City Schools

Santa Rosa City Schools are the combination of two school districts in Santa Rosa, California: the Santa Rosa Elementary School District and the Santa Rosa High School District...

 and Sonoma State University

Sonoma State University

Sonoma State University is a public, coeducational business and liberal arts college affiliated with the California State University system. The main campus is located in Rohnert Park, California, United States and lies approximately south of Santa Rosa and north of San Francisco...

. This talent development program supports students through the college preparation process with a series of seminars that provide participants with the skills they will need to be successful at the university level. Topics include academic and personal success skills, essay and composition writing, researching colleges for the best fit, and writing successful college and scholarship applications.

Unlike a dual enrollment

Dual enrollment

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program, any credits earned at Sonoma State University are not applied to a student's high school transcript. Students in the UC program will accelerate the completion of core requirements in their freshman and sophomore years by taking six college preparatory courses each year. This will permit time in the junior and senior years to take courses at Sonoma State University and receive transferable university credits.

2010-2011

• 1,083 students:

  Hispanic	African American	Asian	Pacific Islander	White, non-Hispanic	Multiracial	American Indian
  70.9%	2.4%	7.9%	0.0%	15.8%	1.5%	0.9%

(source: California Department of Education)

External links

• Elsie Allen High School's Website