Granite Hills High School (Porterville, California)

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Granite Hills High School
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Granite Hills High School (Porterville, California)
1701 E Putnam Ave., Porterville, CA 93257
Coordinates 36°04′06″N118°58′43″W / 36.0684°N 118.9786°W / 36.0684; -118.9786
Information
School district Porterville Unified School District
PrincipalJacob Bowker
Staff55.22 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment1,168 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio21.15 [1]
Color(s)Cardinal and silver    [2]
Nickname Grizzlies [3]

Granite Hills High School, established in 1999, is one of the eleven high schools in Porterville, Tulare County, California. Jacob Bowker is the principal. A previous principal was Apolinar Marroquin.

Its online newspaper, the Grizzly Gazette, was a top million finalist in the National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Competition in the 2005–06 school year and were winners the following two years.----

The Granite Hills Academic Decathlon team won the Tulare County Academic Decathlon Regional Championship for the 6th consecutive year.

he school's girls soccer team forfeited a game in 2022 because of the other team included a transgender athlete. [4] [5]

The school offers an "Academy of Law Justice and Ethics" program. [6] In 2022, students from the school's Academy of Law Justice and Ethics investigated a simulated murder scene [7]

In 2018, a student stabbed himself. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Granite Hills High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Granite Hills (Porterville, CA) High School Sports - Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, and more" . Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Welcome! – Boys Basketball – Granite Hills High School" . Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  4. ↑ Romo, Vanessa (November 21, 2022). "Team forfeits girls' soccer game over transgender athlete". KMPH. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  5. ↑ Greenstein, Henry (November 18, 2022). "Porterville-Granite Hills forfeits girls soccer game over eligibility of Mira Monte transgender athlete". The Bakersfield Californian. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ Johnson II, Jermaine (November 18, 2020). "Bedrock of future criminal justice jobs built on Granite Hills campus". The Sun-Gazette Newspaper. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  7. ↑ Avila, Esther (May 13, 2022). "CSI Granite: Students investigate mock murder scene". Porterville Recorder. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  8. ↑ Cederlof, Calley (August 16, 2018). "Porterville student stabs himself, high school placed on lockdown". Visalia Times-Delta. Retrieved April 17, 2023.


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