Mira Loma High School
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Mira Loma High School is a public high school located in Arden-Arcade, California, United States. It is located south of Interstate 80, and east of Watt Avenue. It is a part of the San Juan Unified School District with a student body of approximately 1700 students from northeast Arden-Arcade and western Carmichael.
Mira Loma High School has been an IB World School since 1989, and is the largest International Baccalaureate program in Northern California.[3] Mira Loma also achieves consistently high pass rates for IB exams, taken in May.
According to Mira Loma, in 1996–1997 the school had a pass rate of 93%, with a 100% diploma attainment rate for students.[4] In 2007–2008 the pass rate was 93% with a 100% diploma attainment rate.[5] Both statistics are well above both the North American average (78%) and the world average (81%) for diploma attainment. For the 2015–2016 school year, Mira Loma has the highest average SAT score in the Sacramento area.[6]
Students
Students are enrolled from throughout the
Education
Mira Loma offers a large number of International Baccalaureate courses that prepare students for IB examinations every spring. The IB tests are either Standard Level (SL) or Higher Level (HL) based on the amount of coursework prior to the examination. Mira Loma students tested in 18 different IB subjects in 2016.[8]
It is one of the few campuses in its district to offer Mandarin Chinese as well as Japanese.[citation needed] It also offers Spanish and French as other foreign languages.
Additionally, AP Calculus is offered to eligible students, as well as AP Computer Science Principles. Other Advanced Placement courses (AP US History, AP Physics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Chinese, and AP Japanese) were previously offered at Mira Loma, but have since been discontinued in favor of a total IB campus.
Extracurricular activities
Academic competition
The Mira Loma National Science Bowl team (consisting of a group of students that answer gameshow-style questions on science and mathematics) won the national championship in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. With five victories, the school has more than any other in the history of Science Bowl, and their 3-year win streak is the second-longest in the history of the competition.[9]
The Mira Loma Science Olympiad team regularly competes in the regional, state, and national level in various competitions sponsored by the United States Department of Energy. In 2016, the team won the National Tournament, and has placed highly in national competitions in other years.[10] Mira Loma High School hosts the Sacramento Regional Science Olympiad every year.[11]
Mira Loma's Speech and Debate team was founded in 2005 by a small group of students.
Mira Loma participates in the
Athletics
Mira Loma also offers a full range of athletic teams including football, soccer, cross country, volleyball, water polo, wrestling, basketball, baseball, softball, track and field, tennis, golf, dance, and swimming.
Clubs
Mira Loma also offers a variety of extracurricular clubs that meet at lunch and after school. Some of these clubs include Science Bowl, VEX Robotics Club, Astronomy Club, Bioengineering Club, Mira Loma Tech and Create, Culinary Club, Speech and Debate, Forces of Nature, Poetry Club, Math Club, Economics Club, Ping Pong Club,
Arcade Creek Project
The Mira Loma
On September 23, 2017, the film Arcade Creek Project: A Mosaic of Sustainability was premiered at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival. This documentary, directed by Jierel Almario, tells the story of the Arcade Creek Project, and the efforts of students to restore it.[14]
Notable alumni
- Richard Chase (class of 1968); "The Vampire of Sacramento" schizophrenic serial killer[15]
- Alex Honnold (class of 2003); free climber
- James House (singer) (class of 1973); country songwriter and singer
- Sam J. Jones (class of 1972); actor
- Peter Mansoor (class of 1978); retired United States Army officer, military historian, academic and commentator on national security affairs[citation needed]
- John Powell (athlete) (class of 1965); track and field athlete, 1976 Olympic medalist and former world record holder in the discus
- Shawna Yang Ryan (class of 1994); author of Green Island and Water Ghosts[citation needed]
- Justin E. H. Smith (class of 1990); philosopher and author
- Blue Swan Records
References
- ^ "Principal's Message". www.sanjuan.edu. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Mira Loma high". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ "San Juan". Sanjuan.edu. December 2, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "Awards – Mira Loma High School Parents". Miralomahigh.org. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "San Juan". Sanjuan.edu. August 18, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "See which Sacramento-area high schools did best, worst on SATs". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ School district (February 2013). "School Accountability Report Card Reported Using Data from the 2015-16 School Year" (.pdf). San Juan Unified School District. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
- ^ "Mira Loma High School". Ibo.org. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ Past High School National Science Bowl Winners (1991 - 2012) | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
- ^ 2016 National Tournament | Science Olympiad
- ^ "Home". sacramentoscienceolympiad.com.
- ^ "Arcade Creek Project". Arcade Creek Project. Archived from the original on January 6, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Environmental and Economic Honors". Schwarzenegger.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
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- ^ Richard Trenton Chase | Radford University