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South Tahoe High School (STHS) is a public high school in South Lake Tahoe, California, United States. The school was established in 1952 and is the only high school that belongs to the Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD). The school mascot is the Viking and the school's colors are blue and gold. South Tahoe High School has 1001 students as of 2015. 56 percent of its students participate in the Advanced Placement courses and the school has been given a silver ranking by US News. In 2013, 53 percent of its students scored proficient or advanced on the English-Language Arts section of the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. On the History-Social Science section of the STAR, 43 percent of students scored proficient or advanced, and only 33 percent did so on the Mathematics section. In 2005, Newsweek Magazine ranked the school as a "top 1000" secondary school in the United States. The school features an open-air campus. In June 2007, the school had to be surrounded by firefighters to avoid being burned down in the devastating Angora Fire. In 2009, an extensive multi-year (completed 2013) set of renovations and new construction projects transformed the school's facilities. A new program began in 2014 to provide every student with a free Chromebook for the year. == History == South Tahoe High School was founded in 1952 in South Lake Tahoe. The school's campus was originally at the current South Tahoe Middle School, but it was later moved to its present location. The current school was built in an open-air style with most of the buildings not connected to each other with hallways. In 1976 the high school senior, Kathleen Keohane, was murdered off-campus and the case remains unresolved. The Angora Fire came within a quarter mile of the high school in June 2007. Dozens of firefighters had to surround the school to defend it from the flames. From 1996 to 2013, the school and LTUSD has experienced a downward trend of enrollment. In 2013, LTUSD had 36.6 percent fewer students than in 1996. From 2009, the school began a $64.5 million venture to renovate many of their facilities and completed their goals by 2013. In the summer of 2011, the school began constructing a new student union, a new art building (Tahoe Arts Design Academy) and began rebuilding their "Viking Stadium." The Tahoe Arts Design Academy was modeled after a Hollywood studio and features a 300-seat theatre. Ivonne Larson, the principal of South Tahoe from 2006-2014, was promoted to assistant superintendent and Chad Houck took over as the current principal. Since 2014, the school offers Chromebooks to students for the year free of charge. The school has accepted the Google for Education service and it is provided on all of the Chromebooks. Houck has said that there has been a correlated 10 percent drop of missing assignments since they started the pilot Chromebook program. 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「South Tahoe High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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