El Tejon Unified School District
El Tejon Unified School District | |
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Address | |
4337 Lebec Road
Lebec , California, 93243United States | |
District information | |
Type | Public |
Grades | K–12[1] |
NCES District ID | 0600026[1] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 699[1] |
Teachers | 34.38[1] |
Staff | 40.86[1] |
Student–teacher ratio | 20.33[1] |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The El Tejon Unified School District serves kindergarten-through-12th-grade students in the
Administration
Sara Haflich is district superintendent.
Schools
Grades K-8
Frazier Park Elementary School educates children in kindergarten through fourth grade. El Tejon Middle School in Lebec takes district students from fifth through the eighth grade.[2]
Frazier Mountain High School
Frazier Mountain High School, also in Lebec, was founded in 1995 for ninth- through 12th-graders.[2]
Academics
The Frazier Mountain High School curriculum offers
Activities
Clubs and activities include art, baton,
Athletics
Frazier Mountain High School belongs to the High Desert League in the Central Section
Robotics
In 2001, the
Intelligent design class
In 2006, Frazier Mountain High School received national attention in the case Hurst et al. v. Newman et al. when eleven parents sued the district for its scheduling an
Missing student body funds
On October 14, 2009, the school board heard the results of an audit of the books of the Associated Student Body organization for the school year 2008-2009, when revenues were $224,012 from dances, a student store, and athletic events and expenses were $201,301.[17] The audit was ordered after two students complained about what they said were missing funds amounting to about $10,000.[18] It found a deficiency in the student books and "lack of controls," County Assistant Superintendent of Schools Mark Fulmer told the board.[17]
In the wake of an investigation by Jason Kaff of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office, School District Board Chairman Anita Anderson told an Enterprise reporter in June 2010 that "Kids raised the money and then the money was used for other purposes." But the school district put new procedures in place to avoid irregularities in the future, the newspaper reported, "such as taking regular inventories in the student store, immediately counting and filing cash reports signed by two people following fundraising events, reconciling bank statements . . . and keeping mandated files of signed minutes to document that [Associated Student Body] members agreed to purchases."[19]
Student walkout
About two hundred high school students staged a walkout from their classes on January 25, 2011, to protest the layoff of bus driver Jesus "Chuy" Saldana after a parent complained that the bus he was driving rolled backward and caused her to run over her son's foot with her car. "They chanted, 'Chuy, Chuy,' and interviewed with local and television media before the media was shooed away by administrators."
Charter schools
Frazier Park hosts a branch of the Charter Oaks Community Charter School, headquartered in Bakersfield. The charter school is designed to "provide opportunities, support, and accountability for parents in their homeschooling endeavors."[22]
Pine Mountain Learning Center is a district-sponsored charter school 3.5 miles west of Pine Mountain.[23]
Home schooling
Home schooling is important in the Mountain Communities, according to a March 2008 report in the local weekly newspaper, The Mountain Enterprise, which added:
Per capita, the Mountain Communities may have one of the highest rates of homeschooling in the state, far above the national average of 2 to 4 percent, Holly Van Houten . . . [a home-school parent of the area] said. Estimates range between 8 and 30 percent—somewhere between 100 and 400 children, she reports.[24]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for El Tejon Unified". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ a b Home page of the El Tejon Unified School District. Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Academics," FMHS web site,November 8, 2013
- ^ "About," ComTec Academy web site,November 8, 2013
- ^ "Activities," FMHS web site,November 9, 2013
- ^ http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/sports/preps/x1322505655/Rams-to-move-into-SWYL-Falcons-to-SYL. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
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- ^ "NASA Sponsorships Awarded to High School Students". NASA. November 29, 2001. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
- ^ "2004 FIRST Robotics Competition Southern California Regional Award Winners". NASA. November 29, 2001. Archived from the original on 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
- ^ "FMHS Snobotics Team :: The Mountain Enterprise".
- ^ a b "Settlement in Hurst v. Newman". National Center for Science Education. January 17, 2006. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ Associated Press, "California School Sued Over Intelligent Design," nbcnews.com, January 10, 2006
- ^ "False Information on Intelligent Design Course Given to Board". The Mountain Enterprise. Dec 30, 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-07-03. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
- ^ Complaint, Hurst v. Newman
- ^ a b "ASB Audit Questions Linger" The Mountain Enterprise, October 23, 2009
- ^ Patric Hedlund, "Audit of ASB Funds In for 2008-09," The Mountain Enterprise, October 16, 2009, page 8
- ^ Patric Hedlund, "Sloppy Tracking of Student Funds Leaves $439,000 Still in Question," The Mountain Enterprise (online edition), June 11, 2010)
- ^ Barrientos, Jorge (February 4, 2011). "Community Rallies Around Dismissed Bus Driver". Bakersfield Californian. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011.
- ^ "School Sit-In Seeks to Send Message," The Mountain Enterprise, February 4, 2011, page 2
- ^ "KCSOS : Valley Oaks Charter School : Mission Statement". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2008-10-09. Mission statement of Charter Oaks Community Charter School.
- ^ "Pine Mountain Learning Center". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ^ "Mountain's home schools oppose state intrusion," Mountain Enterprise, March 14, 2008