Esperanza High School

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Esperanza High School
Address
Esperanza High School
1830 North Kellogg Drive [1]

Anaheim
,
Orange County
,
CA
92807-1298 [1]

United States
Coordinates 33°52′10″N117°48′10″W / 33.8694300°N 117.8028300°W / 33.8694300; -117.8028300 [1]
Information
School type Public High School
Motto“Where Excellence is a Tradition” [2]
Established1973 (1973) [3]
StatusContinuing
School district Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District
NCES District ID 0630660 [4] [5]
SuperintendentDoug Domene [2]
Area trusteeCarol Downey,
Karin Freeman [2]
CEEB code 050093
NCES School ID 063066004758 [6]
PresidentCarrie Buck [2]
PrincipalJeff Giles [2] [7]
Grades 9 to 12 [2]
Gender coed [2]
Number of students1,493 (2020–21) [8]
Language American English
Schedule type Bell [2]
Campus type Urban
Colour(s)   Cardinal and Gold [2]
Athletics Football, Cross Country, Water polo, Volleyball, Golf, Tennis, Basketball, Wrestling, Soccer, Track and Field, Baseball, Swimming, Lacrosse, Softball [2]
Mascot Aztec [2]
Website www.esperanzahs.net
Last updated: September 17, 2014

Esperanza High School (EHS) is a public high school located in Anaheim, California and is part of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.

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It is a California Distinguished School and is home to various California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) championship athletic programs; it is also home to numerous academic clubs, such as Speech and Debate, Mock Trial, and Academic Decathlon. It is a member of the Century League. The school's colors are cardinal and gold, and its mascot is the Aztec.

The school has two campuses: a main campus and a west campus connected by a pedestrian bridge over Kellogg Drive. Since 2010, west campus became known as the Freshmen Focus Campus; however, the mathematics and foreign language buildings on this campus are not reserved solely for freshmen. The west campus is the former Orchard Drive Elementary school, which the high school absorbed in 1986.

Current enrollment exceeds 1,700. Most pupils come from nearby Yorba Linda, California, Anaheim and east Placentia.

Accolades

Esperanza is ranked in the top 25% of Orange County high schools. In 2019, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school #330 within California and #2,154 in the United States. [9] The state ranking is up from #404 in 2017.

Previously, Esperanza was ranked 860 of the "Top 1,300 U.S. High Schools" in MSNBC/Newsweek's 2008 list. [10]

In 2002, EHS was recognized as a California Distinguished School. [11] Later in 2015, it was awarded The California Gold Ribbon Award. [12]

Athletic teams

Esperanza Entertainment Unit

The Esperanza Entertainment Unit consists of a marching band, concerts bands, color guard, and jazz bands. [19]

Engineering

Esperanza is one of nine schools selected by the SME Education Foundation's PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education). [20]

Notable alumni

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