Santa Ana High School

Santa Ana High School
Location
520 W. Walnut St. Santa Ana , California United States
Coordinates	33°44′38″N117°52′24″W / 33.74389°N 117.87333°W / 33.74389; -117.87333
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Once a Saint, Always A Saint!
Established	1889
School district	Santa Ana Unified School District
Principal	Dr. Elizabeth Enloe
Teaching staff	135.18 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	3,135 (2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	23.19 [1]
Colors	Red, white, and Columbia blue
Mascot	Sammy & Sally Saint
Website	www.SantaAnaHigh.SaUSD.us

Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States. ^[2] The school was established in 1889. ^[3]

Notable alumni

• Daniel Antúnez, soccer player
• Barry Asher, professional bowler
• Tony Baxter former senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, the Indiana Jones Adventure, Splash Mountain, and Journey Into Imagination.
• Billy Bean (1964–2024), played major league baseball from 1987 through 1995. He tied a major league record with 4 hits in his first major league game. ^[4]
• Tony Bellamy, Guitarist, member of first Native American rock band Redbone, had number one hit in the 1970s "Come and Get Your Love"
• Beverly Bivens, singer with the 1960s band We Five
• Eddie Bravo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete
• John Brinkerhoff, USMA '50, Associate Director for National Preparedness FEMA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs DoD
• Gerald P. Carr, astronaut
• The Chantays, surf band, its original members: Bob Spickard, Brian Carman (co-writers of "Pipeline"), Bob Welch, Warren Waters and Rob Marshall
• Placida Gardner Chesley, bacteriologist
• Clifford "Gavvy" Cravath, six time National League baseball home run champion in the 1910s
• Jeff Cravath, college football coach
• Josephine Cruickshank, tennis player
• Isaac Curtis, football player, Cal Berkeley and NFL Cincinnati Bengals
• Don Davis, NFL player
• Clancy Edwards, sprinter
• Derek Fleming, featured Soul Train Dancer 1980–1993
• Delfín Jaranilla, Filipino magistrate
• James Kanno, first mayor of Fountain Valley, California
• Diane Keaton, actress
• Dana and Ginger Lamb, American travel writers
• Greg Louganis, Olympic gold medal diver, LGBT activist, called "the greatest American diver in Olympic history" ^[5]
• Larry Lutz, NFL player
• Patrick McMorris, NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins ^[6]
• Bill Medley, singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo
• Gilbert Melendez, two-time California State All-American wrestler; ^[7] professional Mixed Martial Artist; former WEC and Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, current UFC Lightweight contender ^[8]
• Evylena Nunn Miller, painter
• Donn Moomaw, football player, minister ^[9]
• Jim Musick, NFL player, Orange County Sheriff from 1947 to 1975
• Ken Paff, co-founder and National Organizer of Teamsters for a Democratic Union
• Hal Pangle (1912–1968), NFL running back ^[10]
• Frostee Rucker, NFL player
• Robert A. Schuller, televangelist
• Chuck Smith, class of 1945, founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa ^[11]
• Milt Smith (1919–2010), football player, UCLA Bruins and Philadelphia Eagles ^[12]
• William Cameron Townsend, prominent twentieth-century American Christian missionary and founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL International)
• Jose Vasquez, soccer player
• Marvalee Hendricks Wake, evolutionary biologist
• John Ward, football player

References

1. "Santa Ana High". National Center for Education Statistics. Archived from the original on December 28, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
2. "Overview". Santa Ana High School. Archived from the original on May 27, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
3. "About us / Overview".
4. "All Teams History - April 25th - National Pastime - Baseball History".
5. Daniel, Heath (July 14, 2014). "Greg Louganis Tells How He Went From Heartthrob To Activist With Candid New Film". Queerty. Archived from the original on October 16, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
6. Albano, Dan (August 8, 2018). "Standout football player Patrick McMorris transfers to Santa Ana from Godinez" . Orange County Register . Archived from the original on May 7, 2024. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
7. "Gilbert Melendez Santa Ana High School wrestler". Facebook. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
8. "Gilbert Melendez UFC Bio". Archived from the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
9. College Football Hall of Fame profile
10. Eddie West, "West Winds: Sports Whirligig," Archived May 23, 2024, at the Wayback Machine Santa Ana Register, January 5, 1968, p. 35.
11. "Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa". www.calvarychapelcostamesa.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
12. "Football Tabs: Smith to Back Up Woody Strode". Klamath Falls Evening Herald. September 14, 1940. p. 10. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2016– via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Official website