Esperanza High School | |
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Address | |
1830 North Kellogg Drive [1] , , 92807-1298 [1] | |
Coordinates | 33°52′10″N117°48′10″W / 33.8694300°N 117.8028300°W [1] |
Information | |
School type | Public High School |
Motto | “Where Excellence is a Tradition” [2] |
Established | 1973[3] |
Status | Continuing |
School district | Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District |
NCES District ID | 0630660 [4] [5] |
Superintendent | Doug Domene [2] |
Area trustee | Carol Downey, Karin Freeman [2] |
CEEB code | 050093 |
NCES School ID | 063066004758 [6] |
President | Carrie Buck [2] |
Principal | Jeff Giles [2] [7] |
Grades | 9 to 12 [2] |
Gender | coed [2] |
Number of students | 1,493 (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 |
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.
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.
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]
The Esperanza Entertainment Unit consists of a marching band, concerts bands, color guard, and jazz bands. [19]
Esperanza is one of nine schools selected by the SME Education Foundation's PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education). [20]
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