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| Mission High School | |
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3750 18th Street , 94114 United States | |
| Coordinates | 37°45′42″N 122°25′38″W / 37.761775°N 122.427306°W |
| Information | |
| Established | 1890[1] |
| Administrator | Valerie Forero |
| Assistant Principals | Callen Taylor Sofia Argueta Moran |
| Faculty | 66[2] (2007-8) |
| Grades | 9-13 |
| Enrollment | 1,076 (2016-17) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Brown and Gold |
| Teams | Bears |
| Graduates (2016) | 198[3] |
| Website | Mission High |
| Designated | February 9, 2007[4] |
| Reference no. | 255 |
Mission High School is a public high school in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) San Francisco, California.[5]
Serving grades 9–12, Mission is the oldest high school on its original site in San Francisco;[6] it has been on 18th Street, between Dolores and Church, since 1896. The original campus burned in 1922, and the replacement was completed in two stages, the west wing in 1925 and the main building was dedicated by San Francisco mayor James Rolph on June 12, 1927. Originally, girls and boys had separate courtyards. The boys' is overlooked by the "baby tower," about 100 feet (30 m) high, and the girls' (right) topped by a 127-foot (39 m)-high baroque dome. Mission Creek runs beneath the school.
The school is two blocks from Mission Dolores,[7] from which it gets its name. The current student body is diverse, with Latino and Asian students constituting the two largest ethnic groups, although neither group makes up a majority of the student body.[2]
The lobby leads to a theater that has 1,750 folding wooden seats on two levels and a gold-leaf ceiling. Grand as any movie palace, it was outfitted with twin 35 mm projectors. Funding failed to materialize for the elaborate pipe organ system as promised, but the chandeliers have been re-lamped.
- ^ Hooper, Bernadette C. (2006). San Francisco's Mission District. Aracadia Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 0738546577.
- ^ a b "California School Directory: Mission High". California Department of Education. Retrieved May 21, 2009.
- ^ "Cohort Data Outcomes". CA Dept. of Education. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- ^ "SFUSD: Mission High School". www.sfusd.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ "Mission High: The School, The Mural, and Now, The Book! - Tacolicious". www.tacolicious.com. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ Rizga, Kristina (4 August 2015). Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail it, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph. Nation Books. p. 7. ISBN 978-1568585673.