- San Marin High School is a high school located in Novato, California, in the United States. Novato is in Marin County.
- The current enrollment is 1039 with 76.6% White, 14.9% Hispanic, 6.4% Asian/Pacific Rim, 2.3% African American and 2.7% Others. Over the past seven years there has been an increase in the percentage of the Hispanic students corresponding to a decrease in the percentage of Caucasian students; a trend that mirrors the community changes of Novato.
- The staff includes 62 certificated members including three counselors, one librarian and three administrators. The school employs 25 classified staff including six office staff, three custodians, two part-time and one full-time campus supervisor, eight instructional aides (two for ELL students, three for RSP students and three for Special Day Class students), a library clerk, a college and career center specialist and two food service employees.
- Novato High School is the other high school in the Novato Unified School District.
- History
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San Marin High School opened in 1968 in Novato.
- Campus
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The school occupies , with a total of 51 classrooms, two gymnasiums, a student center, library, college and career center, weight room, and science lab. All the facilities have recently been upgraded thanks to the Facility Bond.
- Athletic facilities include tennis and basketball courts, baseball and softball diamonds, soccer field and artificial turf football field and an all weather track.
- Curriculum
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San Marin High School serves grades 9-12, and offers a comprehensive program of study to approximately 1040 students. San Marin has established educational objectives aimed at providing students with challenging learning experiences in academics, as well as providing assistance with choosing future educational and career choices. Students are given opportunities to take classes in performing arts, visual arts, athletics, Regional Occupational Program courses, Advanced Placement and Honors Courses, and Sheltered Courses. In particular, R.O.P. (Regional Occupational Program)(493 students), A.P. (453 students) and honors enrollment (140 students) has climbed dramatically.
- The school has a 98.3% graduation rate. The school ranks in the 90th percentile of Californian high schools. It has 62 teachers, 25 classified staff and a regional occupational program. The school newspaper is called The Pony Express.
- Performing and Visual Arts
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Renowned for Performing and Visual Arts, San Marin offers more performance opportunities than any other high school in Marin County:
- Drama DepartmentThe Drama Department offers drama and advanced drama programs and produces three full-length Drama productions (fall, winter and spring), beginning drama spring play and cafe theaters. Among many other awards, the Drama students recently won First Place (Command Performance with perfect score) in the Sacramento State Statewide Lenaea Drama Festival and first places in both Monologue and Scene Category at the Marin Theater Company Scene Fest. The Drama department was also invited to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with AHSTF during the summer of 2009.
- Music DepartmentThe Music Department strives to provide our students with an extensive music experience at all levels. In addition to Concert/Jazz choirs and bands during normal school hours, our famed music department offers show choir, 3 Jazz Combos, Music theater, Music Technology, and other small ensembles during off hours. The department presents two full-length musicals with orchestra and tech crew; a madrigal feast, featuring music, drama, and dancing; 9 concerts, district music festival; countless community events. Students also attend regional, national and international music festivals and won numerous prestigious awards.
- Recent production by the renowned San Marin Musical Theater include Westside Story, Lucky Stiff[1], Crazy for You, Singing in the Rain[2], Seussical the Musical[3], Into the Woods[4], Thoroughly Modern Millie [5], and most recently Little Mary Sunshine[6].
- Visual Art DepartmentThe Visual Art Department offers a variety of art classes using different medium to express the students creativity. The classes are Art and Design, 3D Art, Glass Art, Photography 1, Photography 2 and AP Photography, Drawing and Painting and AP Art –Projects are at college level and push the students creatively. Students can receive college credit for approved portfolios.
- Extracurricular activities
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San Marin students are involved in a wide range of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, with many opportunities for parent involvement. Parent organizations include PTSA, Sports Boosters, Music Boosters, Drama Boosters, Art Boosters, the English Language Advisory Committee; These groups are very active in supporting the school.
- Sports
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San Marin High School athletic teams participates in the North Coast Section, Marin County Athletic League programs. The school is known for its successful athletic program. San Marin has thirty two sports teams and three seasons (Fall, Winter, Spring) of sports for girls and boys. The Sports Boosters is instrumental for raising funds for the athletic and sports programs at San Marin.
- Fall Sports - Cross Country (Co-Ed Frosh, JV, Varsity), Football (Co-Ed, Frosh, JV, Varsity), Soccer (Boys JV and Varsity), Girls Tennis, Girls Volleyball (Frosh, JV, Varsity), Water Polo (Boys and Girls), Girls Golf and Cheerleading (Boys and Girls).
- Winter Sports - Basketball (Frosh, JV, Varsity), Wrestling and Cheeleading (Boys and Girls).
- Spring Sports - Baseball (Boys Frosh, JV, Varsity), Larcrosse (Boys and Girls Varsity, Boys JV), Soccer (Girls JV, Varsity), Boys Golf, Softball (JV, Varsity), Swimming (Co-Ed), Boys Tennis, Track and Field (Co-Ed) and Boys Volleyball.
- In 2001 the San Marin Football had its first and only undefeated football season going (12-0). They won the MCAL and North Coast Section 2A Championships.
- Other accomplishments are: 2005 Track team won MCAL Girls and Boys High Jump championships and 3200 meters frosh soph championship, 2006 Cross country team won MCAL girl’s Championship with 3rd fastest time on MCAL course, 2006 Girls Tennis MCAL doubles championship, 2006 North Coast Section Champion Girls Softball, 2006 North Coast Section Champion Boys Baseball
- San Marin recently won the 2007 MCAL Girls Tennis Champions, 2007 MCAL Championship Boys Baseball, 2007 North Coast Section Girls Softball Champion, the 2008 Varsity Baseball NCS Champions, and JV Baseball MCAL Champions.
- Student clubs
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San Marin students are involved in many extracurricular activities and the students are encouraged to form students clubs for various interests and disciplines. The clubs are supervised by dedicated San Marin staff and are under the umbrella of the Leadership Class.
- The various students clubs in San Marin are Leadership Class (a credited class) and by alphabetic order: Action Movie Club, Animal Alliance, Anime Club, Art Club, Chess Club, Christian Club, CSF (California Scholarship Foundation), Dance Club, Debate Club, Dinosaur Club, Drug and Alcohol Awareness Club, Environment Club, GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) club, Interact Club, Mountain Biking, Pageturners: Book Club, Poetry Club, Polynesian Island Club, Real Politik, Robotics Club (Penguin Empire Robotics), Save the Waves Club, Social Action Club, Spanish Club and the Website Club.
- The San Marin School Website [7]was developed by the Website club and maintained jointly by the students and PTSA.
- The newly formed (Fall 2007) Robotics Club [8] won the Rookie of the Year, 2nd place overall and the website awards at their first ever FRC (First Robotics Competition)[9] UC Davis Regional Competition and regional tournament in March 2008.
- Student and parental conduct
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During the 1990s, San Marin developed a reputation, locally and nationally, for the intolerent behavior of some students and parents.
- San Marin's reputation for racial and ethnic intolerance begins as early as 1995, when an American-born Asian-American senior at the school was beaten by a group of teenagers shouting racial slurs and telling him to go back to China. The one assailant who took responsibility was sentenced to 20 hours of community service.
- The school's behavior code was modified, outlining a range of punishments for racial/ethnic/sexual slurs including reprimand, parental notification, detention on Saturday afternoon, expulsion and police referral.
- Misbehavior by parents of San Marin basketball player on February 2, 2008, in two games with Tam High teams led to drafting of the first code-of-conduct contracts for parents of athletes at a Marin County school. Following a girls junior varsity game at Tam, the mother of a San Marin player followed two referees, shouting obscene insults; later, at San Marin, two parents of San Marin players confronted Tam's coach after he made a gesture indicating that the home team had choked. Novato police were called and the parents were later asked not to attend the remaining games of the season.
- External links
- San Marin High School website
- Novato Unified School District
- Archive of Pony Express 2003-2006
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