Golden Valley High School (abbr. GVHS) is a public American senior high school set in Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....

. The school is part of the Kern High School District

Kern High School District

The Kern High School District is headquartered in Bakersfield, California and serves the county of Kern located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The Kern High School District is California's largest 9-12 high school district with more than 35,000 students and 3,500 employees.The KHSD...

. Its campus is located on Hosking Avenue.

Academics

220 credits are necessary for a student at GVHS to graduate. Also, every student who graduates must pass the CAHSEE and an approved Algebra

Algebra

Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning the study of the rules of operations and relations, and the constructions and concepts arising from them, including terms, polynomials, equations and algebraic structures...

 course.
Furthermore, GVHS offers the following AP and Honors courses, which students can take to earn college credit, pass an SAT

SAT

The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...

 exam, or be academically challenge

• AP English Literature and Composition
• Honors French
• AP Spanish Language
• Honors Chemistry
• AP Spanish Liteature
• AP United States History
• Honors Physics
• We the People (Honors government)
• AP Environmental Science
• Honors Spanish
• AP Calculus
• AP Statistics
• Honors Math Analysis

Athletics

The athletic director

Athletic director

An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...

 for GVHS is Tom Haskell, there are Varsity, JV, and Frosh/Soph teams. Below are all the sports that GVHS participates in and their respective season

Fall

• Cross Country
  Cross country running
  Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
  
  
• Football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
  
• Women's Golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
  
• Women's Tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
  
• Women's Volleyball
  Volleyball
  Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
  
  

Winter

• Men's Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
  
• Men's Soccer
• Women's Basketball
• Women's Soccer
• Wrestling
  Wrestling
  Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
  
  

Spring

• Baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
  
• Men's Golf
• Men's Tennis
• Softball
  Softball
  Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
  
  
• Swimming
  Swimming (sport)
  Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
  
  
• Track and Field

Clubs & Organizations

GVHS has the following clubs and organizations that students can participate in

• Academic Decathlon
• ASB
• AP Financial
• AVID Club
• Band
• Black Student Union
• Blue and Gold Club
• Breast Friends Club
• Cheerleading
• Choir
• Colorguard
• Class Representatives (President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer for each class)
• Cross Club
• Drama Club
• Drum Line
• FFA
• French Club
• Friday Night Live!
• Friendship Club
• Honors Society
• Interact Club
• Mock Trial
• Science and Medicine Club
• Spanish Club
• Winterguard
• Yearbook

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