Yucca Valley High School
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Yucca Valley High School is a high school located in the town of Yucca Valley, California. The school has about 1,500 students in grades 9-12. The principal is Carl R. Phillips, and the vice principals are Mr. Cox and Ms. Canada. The school is part of the Morongo Unified School District. Yucca Valley High School has very successful wrestling and cross country progams. The co-valedvictorians of the graduating class of 2004 were Daniel Polk and Stephanie Tsang.
Yucca Valley High School is one of the only high schools that used the trimester system in the 2003-2004 school year. Under the trimester system, there are three trimesters in a year instead of two semesters, and only five classes per day rather than six. YVHS is reverting back to the semester system for the 2004-2005 school year after seven years on the trimester system.
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Policies
Yucca Valley High School currently allows juniors and seniors to go off campus for lunch.
Future Plans
The new principal of Yucca Valley High School, Carl Phillips, says that YVHS is currently "good, but it could be great", and he also says that he has has plans to make it great. Most teachers at YVHS say that Carl Phillips is an almost infinitely better principal than Harry Ervin. Carl Phillips' plans include giving more educational opportunities.
Arts
Yucca Valley High School offers a modest amount of artistic opportunities for students to express themselves artistically and culturally. In addition to music classes and art classes, YVHS has a successful marching band, run by band teacher Mr. Bill Barrett, and a thriving Art Club, run by art teacher Mr. Bruce Hamilton. In addition, the YVHS Theatre Company is a popular theatrical organization on campus, which produces many performances under the direction of Mr. Robert Montgomery, teacher and Theatre Co. advisor.
External links
- Yucca Valley High School homepage (http://www.yvhs.net/)
- Morongo Unified School District homepage (http://www.morongo.k12.ca.us/)