Ramona High School (Riverside, California)

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Ramona High School
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Address
Ramona High School (Riverside, California)
7675 Magnolia Avenue

Riverside
,
California
92504

United States
Coordinates 33°56′28″N117°24′50″W / 33.94111°N 117.41389°W / 33.94111; -117.41389
Information
Type Public
Opened1956
School district Riverside Unified School District
SuperintendentDavid Hansen
PrincipalVictor Cisneros
Staff94.99 (FTE) [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment2,190 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio23.06 [1]
Campus size55 arces (22 ha) [2]
Color(s) Columbia blue Navy   White  
Athletics conference CIF River Valley League
MascotRam
Nickname Rams
Rival Arlington High School, Riverside Poly [3]
Newspaper The Rampage
Feeder schoolsChemawa Middle School, Sierra Middle School
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Ramona High School is a high school in Riverside, California, United States, part of the Riverside Unified School District, and the home of the Ramona Rams. Ramona graduated its first class of students in 1958. Ramona has been designated as a "National Demonstration School" for the AVID Program.

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Institution

Ramona's feeder middle schools are Chemawa Middle School and Sierra Middle School. Riverside Polytechnic High School(1887), Ramona, and John W. North High School (1965) are the three oldest high schools in the Riverside Unified School District.

Ramona Creative and Performing Arts (RCAPA)

Ramona's Creative and Performing Arts magnet program [4] provides visual, creative and performing arts classes to more than 1,200 students on their campus and comprises the largest elective department at Ramona.

Dynasty Band and Color Guard

Ramona's Dynasty Band and Color Guard participated in the 2004 Thanksgiving Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois, and the 2006 New Year's Day Parade in Paris, France. [5] In December 2014, Dynasty performed in the Hollywood Christmas Parade. [6]

RCAPA, as of the 2013-2014 school year, offers the following courses: [7]

AVID Program

Ramona High School implemented Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) in 1987 becoming the first site outside of San Diego County to use the program. When Ramona High School started their AVID system, only three percent of the 325 graduating students went to college. Today, ninety-nine percent of the AVID students at Ramona enroll in college. [8]

More than 1,200 students have graduated from Ramona's AVID program, receiving more Dell and Gates scholarships than any other high school in the nation. [9]

Sports

The Boys' football team won CIF Titles in 1983 and 1989. The Ramona High school stadium underwent extensive remodeling and was re-opened in 2010. The Girls´ soccer won CIF in 2022-2023 school year

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ramona High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  2. ↑ "About Us".
  3. ↑ Diamond, Dick (1980). "Where Eagles Soar". Inland Empire Magazine. Retrieved May 16, 2012. If the SBHS-Pacific rivalry was hard fought, the rivalry between (Riverside) Poly and Ramona after 1957 was no less fierce.
  4. ↑ "Magnet Programs". California Department of Education. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ "About the Band". Ramona Dynasty. Archived from the original on November 22, 2012. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ "2014 Hollywood Christmas Parade". Hollywood Christmas Parade. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  7. ↑ "RCAPA Home / Home". Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Ramona High School Celebrates 25 Years of AVID" (PDF). Advancement Via Individual Determination (Press release). January 16, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Dell Scholars for 2013". Dellscholars.org. Retrieved January 6, 2015.[ failed verification ]
  10. ↑ "After 50 years, Zodiac hunters, police still seeking Cheri Jo Bates' killer". Press Enterprise. November 6, 2016. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  11. ↑ Coats, Michael. "Astronaut Bio: Michael L Coats". Astronaut Biographies (NASA). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
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