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Arcadia High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school located on a site in Arcadia, California, USA. It is part of the Arcadia Unified School District. The high school was opened in 1952. The ninth grade was added to Arcadia High School in 1994. The incoming freshman classes consist of students that feed in from Arcadia’s three middle schools: First Avenue Middle School, Richard Henry Dana Middle School, Foothills Middle School. It is among the few public high schools in California to receive a distinguished Great Schools Rating of 9 out of 10. In 2010, BusinessWeek ranked Arcadia as the best place to raise children in the state of California for the second year in a row, citing the city's school system and its low crime rate. The school has a teaching staff of 148. Four hold doctorate degrees, and 110 have master's degrees. The administrative staff consists of the principal, four assistant principals, and one dean of students. A staff of eight full-time and two part-time counselors hold master's degrees and Pupil Personnel Service Credentials, with two of the counselors licensed Marriage/Family/Child Counselors.〔 Arcadia High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and received another six-year accreditation in June 2010. ==History== Arcadia was once part of the Spanish Empire and part of a area called Rancho Santa Anita.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History Of Arcadia )〕 In 1845, Hugo Reid, a pioneer from Scotland, bought Rancho Santa Anita from Governor Pio Pico. Through the years, several early settlers occupied Rancho Santa Anita. In 1875, Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin bought the land. The city of Arcadia's destiny was entwined with the fortunes of Baldwin, who expanded his property holdings to acres in the San Gabriel Valley. Baldwin went on to oversee Arcadia's incorporation in 1903 and became the city's first mayor. The Arcadia School District came to be at the same time as the incorporation of Arcadia in 1903.〔 In 1950, the high school students of Arcadia, Duarte, and Monrovia attended the same high school, "Monrovia Arcadia Duarte High School", more often called "MAD High". In 1951, with a fast-growing population, a bond measure that called for the construction on a new high school in Arcadia was proposed. After its passage, workers began construction and Arcadia High welcomed its first freshman and sophomore classes in September 1952. However, many students had to attend their first year of high school at First Avenue, the oldest school in Arcadia, erected in 1903. The new buildings were built in the next two years and by the 1954 school year, all high school students in Arcadia were together at Arcadia High.〔 About 1975, the closed-campus policy and the dress code were discontinued. The change was influenced by the U.S. Supreme Court decision ''Tinker v. Des Moines'', which stated that students do not "shed their constitutional rights... at the school house door.” That year the student population of Arcadia High reached it highest population at about 3,300 students.〔 For the first time, students also were granted representation on the school board. They gained the right to elect a representative to attend school board meetings and speak for the student body.〔 In the 1980s, enrollment had decreased considerably to about 2,200 students, largely due to the aging demographic in Arcadia. Since then, enrollment has rapidly increased. In the 1990s, the demographics of the school dramatically changed.〔 The Apache Marching Band has won 30 major championships and has marched in the Tournament of Roses Parade fourteen times. A $218 million bond measure was passed on the November 7, 2006 election ballot for the purpose of upgrading and repairing Arcadia schools. A large part of local property taxes are absorbed by the state, and Arcadia is the lowest funded unified school district in Los Angeles County. A new Student Services Center provides a grand entrance to the high school on Campus Drive. The two story structure includes general and special education classrooms, three computer labs, a television studio, graphic design and digital photography classrooms, and the high school’s career center and health, counseling and administrative offices. The brick and glass exterior finish visibly blends with other elements of the campus. Ground was broken in the summer of 2008.〔 The Science Center is located on the south side of the campus on Duarte Road. The two-story center includes chemistry labs with preparation areas and collegiate-style biology and physics classrooms separated by lecture rooms.〔 The Arcadia High School Performing Arts Center anchors the campus at the northwest corner. The center has ground level and mezzanine seating for 1,200, and a stage that accommodate 150 musicians. The building contains a smaller theater, orchestra and dance rooms, and an internal courtyard. The Performing Arts Center construction began in 2010〔 and opened in October 2012. "This will be the first venue of its kind for the district and the community," said district Superintendent Joel Shawn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arcadia High School (California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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