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| Acalanes High School | |
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| Address | |
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1200 Pleasant Hill Road , 94549 United States | |
| Coordinates | 37°54′17″N 122°05′54″W / 37.90481°N 122.09842°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public high school |
| Established | 1940 |
| School district | Acalanes Union High School District |
| NCES School ID | 060165000032[2] |
| Principal | Eric Shawn |
| Teaching staff | 65.31 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 4-20 |
| Enrollment | 1,259 (2022–23)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 19.28[1] |
| Color(s) | Royal blue and white |
| Athletics conference | California Interscholastic Federation, North Coast Section; Diablo Foothill Athletic League |
| Nickname | Dons |
| Newspaper | Blueprint[3] |
| Yearbook | AKLAN |
| Website | School website |
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Acalanes High School is a public secondary school located in Lafayette, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, within Contra Costa County. Acalanes was the first of four high schools established in the Acalanes Union High School District. It was built in 1940 on what was then a tomato field, using federal government funds with labor provided by the Works Project Administration, the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency introduced by the Roosevelt administration. Lafayette businessman M.H. Stanley suggested the name "Acalanes", the name of Rancho Acalanes, the Mexican grant from which all land title within the City of Lafayette derives. Rancho Acalanes itself seems to have been named by its Hispanic settlers after the local Native American Bay Miwok tribe called Saklan (Saclan), referred to by Spanish missionaries as Saclanes.[5][6] The first graduating class of 1941 selected the school colors of blue and white. For the school sports mascot, they chose the Don (a Spanish honorary title).
- ^ a b c "Acalanes High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
- ^ National Center for Education Statistics. "School Detail for Acalanes High". Retrieved September 11, 2022.
- ^ "ACALANES BLUEPRINT". ACALANES BLUEPRINT. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
- ^ "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Acalanes High". ed.gov. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ^ Beeler, Madison S. 1955. Saclan. International Journal of American Linguistics 21:201-209.
- ^ Beeler, Madison S. 1959. Saclan Once More. International Journal of American Linguistics 25:67-68.