Colony High School

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Colony High School
Address
Colony High School
3850 East Riverside Drive

Ontario
,
California
91761

United States
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Type Public secondary
Motto"Everything we do at Colony, we do with pride!"
Established2002
School district Chaffey Joint Union High School District.
PrincipalTommy Mitchell
Teaching staff87.29 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment2,085 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio23.89 [1]
Color(s)  Red
  Blue
  White
Slogan"Everything we do at Colony, we do with Pride!"
Athletics conference Palomares League
MascotTommy the Titan, Torro
Team nameTitans
NewspaperTitan Tribune
YearbookThe Odyssey
Website

Colony High School is a high school located in Ontario, California, and is part of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. [2] The school serves the communities of southern Ontario, including the new Ontario Ranch community and portions of eastern Rancho Cucamonga and southeast Fontana. [3] The school earned the 2018 Civic Learning Award for the State of California [4] and was a 2018 Silver Medal winner for the U.S. News & World Report ranking of Best High Schools. [5] Over 60 percent of the Colony High School Class of 2017 met the University of California A-G requirement rate, nearly 14 percent above the state average. [6]

Contents

History

When Colony High School opened in 2002, its first students and faculty were transfers from around the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. [7]

Jim Brodie was the school's first principal. [8] As of 2020, Thomas Mitchell serves as the school's principal.

Campus

The Lewis Family Branch of the Ontario City Library is a shared facility found on campus. [9]

Academics

Colony High School follows a standard California high school curriculum as defined by the California Department of Education's High School Graduation Requirements and tests students with the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program and the California High School Exit Exam.[ citation needed ]

Colony High School offers students opportunities to earn college credit through College Board Advanced Placement (AP) and dual-credit courses. Dual-credit courses, are taken at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga during the summer session and, if passed, qualify as credit for both high school graduation and college classes. In addition, Colony High School has the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program, honors classes, and participates in the nationwide Renaissance program.[ citation needed ]

The Class of 2006 recorded the highest pass rate for any AP test, receiving a 95% pass rate for the AP Calculus test under the instruction of Christopher W. Chang.[ citation needed ]

Arts

Colony High School has a wide array of classes and clubs revolving around the arts: Art, Ceramics, Music Appreciation, Digital Media, Drama & Theatre, Choir, Dance, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Percussion, and Color Guard classes.

Band, percussion, and color guard

The Colony High School Titan Regiment consists of a band, percussion, and color guard. They compete in the California State Band Championships (CSBC) and the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) circuits and host annual field tournaments. [10]

Championship titles

  • 2011: 1st place (2A) [11]
  • 2022: 1st place (3A CSBC); 1st place (Open Class State Finals for 1A/2A/3A) State Champions [12]

Theatre

The Colony Theatre Arts Department performs at the 1,263 seat Colony High School Performing Arts Theatre. Among their past productions are Dracula, Grease, Black Comedy, Metamorphoses, Noises Off, West Side Story, You Can't Take It with You, Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol, Lend Me A Tenor, Once on this Island, Leading Ladies, The Diviners, Tartuffe, The Elephant Man (play), Blithe Spirit (play) and a variety show titled 30/60 (which features a cast of seven performing thirty original skits in sixty minutes, hence the name 30/60). They have also performed other theatrical shows, such as Hairspray, A Dinner With Zombies (which made its theatrical debut at Colony High School) and Sophocles' Antigone . The department has competed in the Drama Teacher Association of Southern California's (DTASC) acting and tech competition, and the California Educational Theatre Association's CETA event.

Athletics

Colony High School's sports program includes baseball, basketball, cheer, cross country, football, golf, swimming, soccer, tennis, track, volleyball, water polo, softball, and wrestling, and cross country running.

Soccer

In the graduating class of 2007 there were several D-1 soccer players, including Omar Bolden (Arizona State University),

Notable faculty and alumni

NFL players Bobby Wagner, Josh Andrews, Omar Bolden, and Khalil Dorsey are Colony High School Alumni. [13] [14] [15] [16]

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  2. ↑ Chaffey Joint Union High School District. "Our Schools". Archived from the original on February 16, 2007. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
  3. ↑ Ontario Ranch http://ontarioranch.com/
  4. ↑ California State Civic Learning Award https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr18/yr18rel17.asp
  5. ↑ U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools
  6. ↑ California Department of Education Dataquest https://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/SchGrad.asp?cSelect=Colony%5EHigh--Chaffey%5EJoint%5EU--3667652-3631157&cChoice=SchGrad&cYear=2016-17&cLevel=School&cTopic=Graduates&myTimeFrame=S&submit1=Submit
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