Steele Canyon High School
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Steele Canyon Charter High School is a public charter
high school
located in the San Diego East County
community of Spring Valley, California. Opened in 2000, the school serves students in grades nine
through grade twelve and was part of the Grossmont Union High School District
until July 1, 2007.
2001-2002 School Year
2002-2003 School Year
2003-2004 School Year
causes Steele Canyon High School to close for a week and their first-ever planned Homecoming was postponed two weeks. The Class of 2004 is the first graduating class of Steele Canyon. First Prom at the San Diego Convention Center.
2004-2005 School Year
2005-2006 School Year
2006-2007 School Year
2007-2008 School Year
. The fire later threatens the school itself. Firefighters, with helicopter support, defend the school by using a back burning
technique on the hills nearby. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
visits Steele Canyon High School and gives a press conference addressing the fires. Prom held at The House of Blues2008-2009 School Year
Steele Canyon gets a new football field and track.
Graduating Class of 2009 is the sixth graduating class. "Can't Outshine the Class of '09"
Prom held at The Wave House
2009-2010 School Yearhttp://www.steelecanyonalumni.org held at SCHS August 8, 2009 hosted by Class of '04-'05 and former Cross country and Track and Field Runners
Steele Canyon High School has 130 employees. All employees hold the proper credentials and certificates to be more than qualified for the positions they hold.
(CIF).
The school has teams that compete in CIF in the following sports: baseball
(boys), basketball
, cheerleading
, cross country
, football
(boys), golf
, gymnastics
, soccer, softball
(girls), swimming
and diving
, tennis
, track
, volleyball
, water polo
, and wrestling
(boys).
Since the Fall of 2002 (the first year of varsity-level competition), SCHS has won 26 league titles and nine CIF championships "The Legacy":
Grossmont South League titles
CIF-San Diego Section championships
Steele Regiment is Steele Canyon's Competitive Marching band that competes in the 1A category. In 2010 they won 1st place in Poway Regionals as well as 2nd and 3rd in other Marching Band competitions.
Shows that have been presented by the Steele Canyon Players
Charter school
Charter schools are primary or secondary schools that receive public money but are not subject to some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter...
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 the San Diego East County
San Diego County, California
San Diego County is a large county located in the southwestern corner of the US state of California. Hence, San Diego County is also located in the southwestern corner of the 48 contiguous United States. Its county seat and largest city is San Diego. Its population was about 2,813,835 in the 2000...
community of Spring Valley, California. Opened in 2000, the school serves students in grades nine
Ninth grade
Ninth grade is the ninth post-kindergarten year of school education in some school systems. The students are 13 to 15 years of age, depending on when their birthday occurs. Depending on the school district, ninth grade is usually the first year of high school....
through grade twelve and was part of the Grossmont Union High School District
Grossmont Union High School District
The Grossmont Union High School District is a public school district located in eastern San Diego County, California, and serves high school, adult school, and Regional Occupational Program students in the cities of El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, and Santee; and the unincorporated communities of...
until July 1, 2007.
History
2000-2001 School Year- Steele Canyon High School opens. 9th Grade is the only grade level.
2001-2002 School Year
- Steele Canyon High School 9th and 10th grade levels.
2002-2003 School Year
- Steele Canyon High School 9th -11th grade levels. Steele Canyon High School begins to compete in varsity level sports. SCHS went on to win two league titles that year - boy's golf and girl's tennis.
2003-2004 School Year
- Steele Canyon High School a 9th-12th grade. Making Steele Canyon a four year comprehensive high school.
Cedar Fire
The Cedar Fire was a human-caused wildfire that burned out of control through a large area of San Diego County, in Southern California, in October 2003...
causes Steele Canyon High School to close for a week and their first-ever planned Homecoming was postponed two weeks.
2004-2005 School Year
- Class of 2005 is the second graduating class.
2005-2006 School Year
- Class of 2006 is the third graduating class.
2006-2007 School Year
- Steele Canyon High School votes to become a charter schoolCharter schoolCharter schools are primary or secondary schools that receive public money but are not subject to some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter...
. - Class of 2007 is the fourth graduating class.
2007-2008 School Year
- Class of 2008 is the fifth graduating class.
October 2007 California wildfires
The October 2007 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that began burning across Southern California on October 20. At least 1,500 homes were destroyed and over 500,000 acres of land burned from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico border...
. The fire later threatens the school itself. Firefighters, with helicopter support, defend the school by using a back burning
Controlled burn
Controlled or prescribed burning, also known as hazard reduction burning or Swailing is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire can be a tool for...
technique on the hills nearby. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
visits Steele Canyon High School and gives a press conference addressing the fires.
2009-2010 School Year
- Graduating Class of 2010 is the seventh graduating class.
- Prom held at U.S. Grant Hotel
- The song "You Can't Bend Steele" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE4RLWNI4vA) was sung by Mike Eddie.
Facilities and faculty
Athletics
Steele Canyon Cougars compete in the Grossmont South League Conference and the San Diego Section of the California Interscholastic FederationCalifornia Interscholastic Federation
The California Interscholastic Federation is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. It mirrors similar governing bodies in other states; however, it differs from some of the others in that it covers most high schools in the state of California, both public and...
(CIF).
The school has teams that compete in CIF in the following sports: 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...
(boys), 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...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, 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...
(boys), 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....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, soccer, 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...
(girls), 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...
and diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, 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...
, track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, 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...
, water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
, and wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
(boys).
Since the Fall of 2002 (the first year of varsity-level competition), SCHS has won 26 league titles and nine CIF championships "The Legacy":
Grossmont South League titles
- Boys
- Basketball: 2004, 2005, 2009
- Baseball: 2008, 2009
- Cross Country: 2007, 2009
- Football: 2006
- Golf: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Tennis: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Track and Field: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Wrestling: 2008, 2009, 2010
- Girls
- Cross Country: 2006
- Gymnastics: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Soft ball: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Tennis: 2002
- Track and Field: 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Soccer: 2010
- Golf: 2009, 2010
- Water Polo: 2010
CIF-San Diego Section championships
- Boys
- Basketball: 2004, 2005
- Cross Country: 2007
- Track & Field: 2008, 2009
- Wrestling: 2009
- Girls
- Softball: 2006, 2007
- Track & Field: 2009
- Soccer:2010 CIF Champion Runner Up
Steele Regiment is Steele Canyon's Competitive Marching band that competes in the 1A category. In 2010 they won 1st place in Poway Regionals as well as 2nd and 3rd in other Marching Band competitions.
Arts
Art and drama performances are occasionally held after school hours. Steele Canyon Players put on two main plays each year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The advance theatre class puts on One Acts in the spring.Shows that have been presented by the Steele Canyon Players
- The Boy FriendThe Boy FriendThe Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days...
, Fall 2004 - Our TownOur TownOur Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...
, Fall 2006 - PippinPippinPippin, Peppin, and Pepin are variants of a single Frankish given name. It was the name of several important figures in the Carolingian family that ruled the Frankish Empire in what is now France and the western parts of Germany in the Middle Ages:* Pepin of Landen, nicknamed the Elder, sometimes...
, Spring 2007 - A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, Fall 2007 - Outside InOutside InOutside In is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon that helps homeless youth and other marginalized people move towards improved health and self-sufficiency by providing social and medical services. Founded in 1968 in Downtown Portland, Outside In has continually revised their services to...
, Spring 2008 - The Madwoman of ChaillotThe Madwoman of ChaillotThe Madwoman of Chaillot is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities...
, Fall 2008 - The Island of Doctor MoreauThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. It is told from the point of view of a man named Edward Prendick who is shipwrecked, rescued by a passing boat, and then left at the ship's destination by the crew along with the ship's cargo of exotic animals...
, Spring 2009 - The Love for Three Oranges, Fall 2009
- Guys and DollsGuys and DollsGuys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably...
, Spring 2010 - Metamorphoses (play)Metamorphoses (play)Metamorphoses is a play by American playwright Mary Zimmerman adapted from the classic Ovid poem, Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago...
, Fall 2010 - The WizThe WizThe Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
, Spring 2011
Notable alumni
- Andrew Bellatti, Class of 2009, Drafted in the 2009 MLB Draft in the 12th round to the Tampa Bay RaysTampa Bay RaysThe Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of MLB's American League. Since their inception in , the club has played at Tropicana Field...
. - Michael Cederoth, Class of 2011, Drafted in the 2011 MLB Draft in the 41st round to the Arizona DiamondbacksArizona DiamondbacksThe Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
- Alexis Swanstrom, Class of 2011, crowned Miss California Teen USAMiss California Teen USAThe Miss California Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss Teen USA pageant. This pageant is part of the Miss Universe Organization, owned by Donald Trump....
in 2010 - Alberto Bernal, Class of 2005, Creates 1st Alumni Reunion Event http://www.steelecanyonalumni.org