La Sierra High School, located in Riverside, California, United States, is a public high school in the Alvord Unified School District that was founded on August 28, 1969. Tania Cabeza is the principal. La Sierra High School's official school colors are navy blue and white. Red is the accent color and has been since the school opened.
The two main feeder schools for La Sierra High are Arizona and Villegas intermediate schools. La Sierra's rivals are Norte Vista and Hillcrest, the other public high schools in Alvord Unified.
Recent events In 2005, La Sierra High School was awarded a 6-year clear accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, making it the first comprehensive high school in the entire Inland Empire to earn this distinction.
In the 2007–2008 school year, approximately 3,200 students attended La Sierra High.
Hillcrest High School opened in fall 2012 to relieve crowding at La Sierra.
Academics and test scores Test scores API In 2005, La Sierra High School increased its API (Academic Performance Index (California public schools)) to 715 from the 2004 base score of 679. Although it met the school-wide growth target, it did not meet the state subgroup growth targets. To encourage schools to improve achievement for all students, the state computes APIs and sets improvement targets for the different student subgroups at the school.
+ 2005 API base by subgroup Subgroup API base All students 715 African-American 690 Asian 791 Hispanic 676 White/Caucasian 761 Socioeconomically disadvantaged 664 English learners 648 Special education 487
CST results In 2005, La Sierra's students met or exceeded the state expectations on the California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) as listed below:California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program . Accessed November 2, 2006.
Subject Freshmen pass rate (%) Sophomore pass rate (%) Junior pass rate (%) Algebra 1 4 2 3 Algebra 2 80 24 6 Biology / Life sciences 20 14 12 Chemistry -- 22 12 Earth sciences 5 20 19 English 39 32 30 Geometry 46 10 6 World history -- 29 -- U.S. history -- -- 39
CAHSEE results All data below reflect the percentage of sophomore, junior and senior students who passed the CAHSEE sections.
+ ELACalifornia High School Exit Examination Cahsee Results . Accessed November 2, 2006. Year Percent passed 2002 65 2003 67 2004 71 2005 65 2006 61
+ Mathematics Year Percent passed 2002 24 2003 40 2004 70 2005 67 2006 91
Athletics La Sierra is a member of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) River Valley League along with Hillcrest, Jurupa Valley, Norte Vista, Patriot and Ramona high schools. They won the boys' state team track title in June 2009 which was the first boys' team track title in Riverside County history.
Teachers Category Total # of teachersCalifornia Department of Education website. CDE website. Accessed November 2, 2006. La Sierra 120 District 899 County 18,164 State 307,864 Type of credential Teachers (state) Teachers (LSHS) Full 307,864 (94.2%) 114 (95.0%) University intern 7,668 (2.5%) 3 (2.5%) District intern 2,690 (0.9%) 2 (1.7%) Pre-intern 1,150 (0.4%) 0 (0.0%) Emergency 9,922 (3.2%) 1 (0.8%) Waiver 1,298 (0.4%) 0 (0.0%)
According to the California Department of Education, in the 2005–2006 school year, teachers at La Sierra had 11.1 years average teaching experience and had spent an average of 10 years teaching in the Alvord Unified School District. The average class size was ~ 34.
Notable alumni Rizwan Farook, Islamic terrorist who was one of the perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino attack in which 14 people were murdered Jesse James, founder of West Coast Choppers 1983-1987LA SIERRA HS 1985 FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO WCC JESSE JAMES Mitch Lucker, lead vocalist for the deathcore band Suicide Silence Mark Takano - first non white LGBT member of Congress Tyree Washington, athlete (track and field) Reggie Wyatt, National High School record holder in the 300 hurdles
References
External links
La Sierra High School website