Mt. Whitney High School

Public school in the United States

Mt. Whitney High School

Location

900 South Conyer Street
Visalia, California 93277

United States

Coordinates| 36°19′22″N 119°17′57″W﻿ / ﻿36.3229°N 119.2992°W﻿ / 36.3229; -119.2992
Information
Type| Public
Established| 1952
School district| Visalia Unified School District
Principal| Robert Aguilar
Staff| 78.71 (FTE)[1]
Grades| 9–12
Enrollment| 1,639 (2022-23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio| 20.82[1]
Color(s)| Maroon and white
Mascot| Pioneer
Website| [1]

Mt. Whitney High School is a public high school in Visalia, California, United States, founded in 1952.

## Academics

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In 2009 Mount Whitney was declared a California Distinguished School.[2]

## Athletics

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Mt. Whitney competes in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), Central Section Division II, East Yosemite League.

## History

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Mt. Whitney High School opened in 1951[citation needed] as Visalia High School on Conyer Street, a few blocks away from the site of Visalia Union High School. The new Visalia High School was built to provide room for the rapid growth of the "Baby Boom" that followed World War II. The new site, Visalia High School, provided students in the Visalia Union High School District modern facilities and space for the playing field needed by the growing number of students.

Visalia High School was painted two shades of light blue/aqua, the same colors as the College of the Sequoias on Mooney Boulevard. Both Visalia Union High School and Visalia Junior College, which would become College of the Sequoias, had been located on the old Visalia Union High School campus on Main street.

The need for high school classrooms grew faster than was expected when the Visalia High School campus was opened. In 1955, the old Visalia Union High School campus was reopened as a second high school and named Redwood High School. From 1952 to 1954, the old VUHS campus had served as a junior high school feeding into Visalia High School. At the same time Redwood High was renamed, Visalia High School was renamed Mt. Whitney High School.

Mt. Whitney High retained VUHS's original school colors of maroon and white, the Oak as the yearbook, and their Pioneer mascot.[3][4]

## Notable alumni

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This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (July 2022)

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* Kevin Costner
* Avi Kaplan
* Cody Gibson
* Tom Johnston, musician
* Ken Khachigian, advisor to Richard Nixon and speech writer to Ronald Reagan
* Nelms brothers[5]
* Scott Allen Shaver
* Mike Young, American professional football player

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Mt. Whitney High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
2. ^ Rocha, Kimberlina (2 April 2009). "Mt. Whitney, Exeter Union high schools named distinguished schools of 2009". Visalia Times, cited at pqarchiver. Visalia, California, US. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
3. ^ About Our School
4. ^ issuu.com, page 18
5. ^ Ward, James (20 March 2018). "Mt. Whitney grads make 'Small Town Crime' payoff at movies". Visalia Times-Delta. Retrieved 15 November 2024.

## External links

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* Official site

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* NCES

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