San Marino High School (SMHS) is a public

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San Marino, California San Marino is a residential city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was incorporated on April 25, 1913. At the 2010 census the population was 13,147. The city is one of the wealthiest places in the nation in terms of househo ...

, United States, and the only high school in the

San Marino Unified School District San Marino Unified School District is a school district located in San Marino, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approx ...

, Los Angeles County. According to the 2015 California

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Survey, the district is the 52nd highest-performing school in California, with a score of 932 points out of 1,000 possible.

History

San Marino High School was founded in 1952 after 50 years of utilizing

South Pasadena High School South Pasadena High School (SPHS or "South Pas") is the one public high school serving grades 9-12 in the city of South Pasadena, California. With the South Pasadena Middle School and three elementary schools (Arroyo Vista, Marengo, and Monterey ...

in nearby South Pasadena. The high school is situated on the former site of Carver Elementary School. The reconstruction began in 1996 and was completed by support with bond issues and rigorous fund-raising by the San Marino Schools Endowment. San Marino High School is part of the

. Its public funding is supplemented by private donations raised through the San Marino Schools Foundation. San Marino High School's upper football practice field was the location of where Kathy Fiscus fell into an abandoned water well in 1949. It was subsequently capped and covered by the local water district. San Marino High School was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2006 and a Gold Medal school by '' U.S. News & World Report'', ranking in the 80s in the nation for December 2007. The California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE) named the school to its Honor Roll in 2008 in the Scholar Schools category. In 2009, the school was among 261 named California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education (CDE).

Student population

As of the 2008-09 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,096 students (276 seniors) and 59 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 18.6. The school's racial composition is 60% Asian, 27% Caucasian, 10% Hispanic, 1% African American, 1% Two or more Races and 1% other.

Athletics

San Marino has a history of athletic rivalry with

, a neighboring city school. Due to tradition, games against South Pasadena tend to have a larger crowd and hold more significance versus games against other schools. In 1998, the school won five straight

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boys' tennis titles and was ranked number one in USA Today's High School Tennis Teams. In April 2018, the San Marino High School Winter Drumline advanced to the WGI world class division and ranked 14th in the nation. On December 5, 2015, the football team won a

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Central Section title, defeating

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of Covina by the score of 45-28, then on December 12, 2015, they defeated

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in the CIF State Southern California Regional Small School Division by the score of 36-35.

Notable alumni

* Gary Primm – 1958 (casino owner) * Donald Segretti – 1959 (political "dirty trickster," organizer) * Bob Day – 1961 (1968 Olympian) * Bill Redell, football coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. *

Kim Carnes Kim Carnes (; born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a sess ...

– 1963 (singer-songwriter) * Laurie Garrett – 1969 (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) * Gregg Jarrett – 1973 (Fox News anchor) *

Jorge Jarrin Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...

– 1973 (LA Dodgers Broadcaster) *

Kathryn Barger Kathryn Ann Barger-Leibrich is an American politician, serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 5th District since 2016. A member of the Republican Party, Barger served as Chair of Los Angeles County from 2019 ...

– 1978 Los Angeles County Supervisor (5th District) * Andrés Cantor (born 1962) – 1980 (Emmy-award-winning Spanish-language soccer sportscaster) *

Jim Gott James William Gott (born August 3, 1959) is an American professional baseball pitcher and coach. Gott pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 years for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers ...

– 1980 (retired MLB player, coach for the Philadelphia Phillies). * Scott Melville – 1984 (Professional tennis player) *

Stephan Pastis Stephan Thomas Pastis (; born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and former lawyer who is the creator of the comic strip ''Pearls Before Swine''. He also writes children's chapter books, commencing with the release of ''Timmy Failure: ...

– 1986 (cartoonist). *

Greg Penner Gregory Boyd Penner (born December 18, 1969) is an American businessman and venture capitalist. Penner is a co-owner and CEO of the Denver Broncos. Penner was named the chairman of Walmart in June 2015. He is the son-in-law of S. Robson Walton ...

– 1988 (Chairman, Walmart)

* Derek Kan – 1996 (Government Official) * Michael Catherwood – 1997 (television and radio personality a.k.a. "Psycho Mike") * Blair Imani – 2012 (activist)

References

External links

San Marino High School

San Marino Unified School District

San Marino ROP Media Arts

San Marino High School Library
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