Merced High School

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Merced High School
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Merced High School
205 W. Olive Ave

Merced, California

United States
Coordinates 37°19′14″N120°28′24″W / 37.3205°N 120.4734°W / 37.3205; -120.4734
Information
Type High School
MottoHome of Champions and Scholars
EstablishedMarch 14, 1922 (1922-03-14)
School districtMerced Union High School District
SuperintendentAlan Peterson
PrincipalMarcus Knott
Staff84.92 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,894 (2022-2023) [1]
Student to teacher ratio22.30 [1]
Color(s)  
Athletics conference Central California Conference
MascotGrizzly Bear
RivalsGolden Valley High School
AccreditationWASC
NewspaperThe Scholar
Website http://mhs.muhsd.org/

Merced High School is located in Merced, California, United States. It is a part of the Merced Union High School District.

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The current enrollment is over 1,800 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is currently under Principal Marcus Knott and Associate Principals Ashley Silveria, Joel Sebastian, Phaedra Hofmann and Lea Smith.

Academics

The original Spanish Colonial Revival style campus, built in 1922 and demolished in 1974. Merced Union High (original Spanish Colonial Revival campus) (cropped).jpg
The original Spanish Colonial Revival style campus, built in 1922 and demolished in 1974.

The Merced High School Advanced Placement program is open for any student who wishes to be challenged in the fields of chemistry, English, physics, government, Spanish, biology, calculus, statistics and studio art. The teachers at Merced High School try to ensure that their students work their hardest, which explains the high percentage of students who pass the Advanced Placement examinations with a score of 3, 4, or 5. Merced High School's Advanced Placement exam and test scores have earned it a place among the Top 1300 schools in the United States by Newsweek magazine. The school has also earned a Bronze Award from U.S. News & World Report, having been cited as one of the top 1,800 schools in the United States.

The Merced High Academic Decathlon team took the title of Merced County Champions (10 years in a row 2009-2018) and competed in Sacramento in March 2015, coming in 51st place in the state of California. [2]

Special programs

The school has the Newcomer Program for newly arrived immigrants. As of February 2006, 80 students from Southeast Asia were a part of the program. Many of them were refugees from the Thamkabok refugee camp in Thailand. Many had never had formal education before, did not know how to use writing utensils, and did not know how to write their own names. [3]

Student life

As of 2006 the school has an Asian Club, which has over 100 members. It is one of the largest groups at Merced High School. The Asian Club takes end of the year school trips and holds fundraising and social events. [3]

Athletics

Merced High School produced the 2015-2016 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year. Madilyn Nickles received this award as the top high school softball player in America. [4]

As of 2017, the Merced High boys' swimming team has won nine straight Central California Conference championships. [5]

Merced High School has won the Central California Conference for three straight seasons in football (2014, 2015, and 2016). [6]

Demographics

By January 1983, Merced High School North Campus had suddenly received over 200 Hmong refugee students, with almost all of them in English as a second language (ESL) programs. Between the northern hemisphere spring of 1982 and January 1983 the school doubled the size of its ESL program. A former assistant principal at Merced High North said that many of the Hmong students valued education and had almost perfect school attendance. [7]

Notable alumni

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  2. ↑ academicdecathlon.org http://academicdecathlon.org/scores/state2015.pdf . Retrieved 2015-06-26.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 1 2 Yawger, Doane. "Learning Life in U.S. - Recent Laotian Immigrant Students Getting to Know Language, Food." Merced Sun-Star . Wednesday February 22, 2006. Local A1. Retrieved on March 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Gatorade POY (2016-06-09), Madilyn Nickles 2015-2016 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2016-07-22
  5. ↑ "Merced boys win eighth straight CCC swimming title" . Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  6. ↑ "Merced High football still team to beat in CCC" . Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  7. ↑ "Refugee students jam the schools." Merced Sun-Star . Friday January 21, 1983. Page 6. Retrieved from Google News (26 of 35) on March 11, 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Garvin Loses". Merced Sun-Star . 21 August 1978. p. 16. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  9. ↑ Recht, Mike (6 June 1967). "Yanks' Tillotson Beats Nats For Third Win". The Fresno Bee . p. 9-B. Retrieved 17 October 2022.

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