| Number of Schools Managed |
219 |
7 |
| Number of Students Managed |
134,197 students |
3,960 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$1,331,749,000 |
$37,604,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$1,485,080,000 |
$39,520,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$9,924 |
$9,496 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$11,066 |
$9,980 |
| District Graduation Rates |
n/a |
n/a |
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- Point Loma High School is a public high school in the San Diego Unified School District. The school serves the neighborhoods of Point Loma and Ocean Beach. In addition, students who live in Mission Hills may choose to attend Point Loma High School as their neighborhood school.
- Demographics
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Point Loma High School is the eighth largest of 16 high schools in the San Diego Unified School District. It is a four-year, comprehensive high school serving grades 9–12. It houses a student population of approximately 2000 students who come primarily from the local community. Approximately 35 percent of the student body participates in specialized programs, such as the Voluntary Ethnic Enrollment Program (VEEP), the Choice Program, the Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) program, or the Seminar Program. Point Loma may also be remembered for its hectic 2008-2009 school year, when the deaths of three students, Michael Taylor, Prysma Mejia, and Moises Lopez, greatly affected and strengthened its student body.
- Academics
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Point Loma High School is a leader in the number and variety of AP classes offered, ranging from Music Theory to Physics.
- Athletics
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The school's colors are maroon and gold, although football uniform colors are typically unconforming with their traditional colors of a main maroon with an accented gold. The mascot is the Pointer Dog. The school offers a variety of both men's and women's competitive sports :
- Offered
- Fall
- Cross Country (men & women)
- Field Hockey (women)
- Football (men)
- Golf (women)
- Tennis (women)
- Volleyball (women)
- Water Polo (men)
- Winter
- Basketball (men & women)
- Soccer (men & women)
- Water Polo (women)
- Wrestling (men & women)
- Spring
- Badminton (men & women)
- Baseball (men)
- Golf (men)
- Softball (women)
- Swim (men & women)
- Tennis (men)
- Track & Field (men & women)
- Volleyball (men)
- Awards & Championships
- Football
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The Point Loma "Pointers" Football team has won or shared the CIF championship five times in the past fifty years, all under head coach Bennie Edens. In 2005, under new head coach Mike Hastings, the Pointers reached the championship game but lost to Saint Augustine High School, 48-17.
- Women's Soccer
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The Lady Pointers soccer team has grown stronger each year. In 2009, with leading players Bianca Perez, Alexa Da Rosa and Shelby Murphy, they made it to the CIF Champoiship game defeating many higher seeded teams to get there. The game ended in a tie, with Point Loma winning it in PK's.
- Women's Basketball
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The "Lady Pointers" basketball team was a powerhouse at the state level during the late 1980s, capturing the state championship and inspiring a graffiti-style mural that endures at the athletic field to this day. Under legendary women's basketball coach Lee Trepanier, known as "Coach T", the Lady Pointers posted an astonishing record of 335 wins and 51 losses between 1977 and 1990.
- Men's Water Polo
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The Point Loma High water polo team had the distinction of making it to the CIF tournament seeded eighth in 2007 and more recently seeded fifteenth. Under Coach Gerard Rich the team has become a true factor to reckon with in the past years.
- Men's TennisThe Point Loma High Men's Tennis team has won C.I.F two years running now, in 2008 and 2009. Their strongest team rivaled teams from all divisions losing only one match, to Torrey Pines.
- History
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PLHS was dedicated in 1925 as Point Loma Junior-Senior High school, serving grades 7 through 12. During the 1950s it was converted to a three-year high school with the opening of Richard Henry Dana Junior High School. During the 1980s it became a four-year high school. PLHS now draws from seven elementary schools serving grades kindergarten through 4, and two middle schools: Dana Middle for grades 5 and 6, and Correia Middle for grades 7 and 8.
- Point Loma received a six-year accreditation in May 2003 from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
- The school also has the distinction of producing two major-league baseball pitchers who threw perfect games -- David Wells and Don Larsen. The feat is so rare only 18 pitchers have thrown perfect games in Major League Baseball history.
- Alumni
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Some famous alumni include:
- Academy Award-winning film editor Joe Hutshing
- Swimmer Florence Chadwick
- Marion Ross, actress, best known as Marion Cunningham on Happy Days
- Don Larsen, major league baseball pitcher, pitched the only perfect game in a World Series (1956)
- JJ Stokes, NFL Wide Receiver, San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars
- La'Roi Glover, NFL Defensive Tackle, St Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints
- Dan White, football player
- David Wells, major league baseball pitcher, pitched a perfect game in 1998
- Slightly Stoopid
- Dennis Conner, sailor, four-time winner of the America's Cup
- Suzy Spafford, creator of the Suzy's Zoo line of greeting cards, calendars, and cartoons
- Musician Jason Scheff, member of the rock band Chicago
- Manson Family member Sandra Good
- Chicano Rapper NB Zey
- CNN business reporter Todd Benjamin
- Financial Guru Dr. Robert "Rocky" Higgins
- Eric Allen, 6 time NFL pro bowler, Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders, ESPN Analyst
- Actress Margaret Avery, nominated for an Academy Award as Shug Avery in the Steven Spielberg film "The Color Purple"
- Aaron Zigman, songwriter and Hollywood film score composer
- Landmarks
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Point Loma High School is the location of the Leap of Faith, an infamous location amongst skateboarders and rollerbladers. Remodeling in 2002 rendered the spot unskateable and it has never been landed. Many people have tried to land the drop but were not successful. Jamie Thomas and Brian Shima are the only people to come close to landing the 18 foot 8 inch drop.
- Point Loma High school is also home to the famed "Red Monster", the plaster wall on the south of the football field. Many have tried to climb it but none have succeeded. It has been perennially adorned with messages to opposing teams to help support the home team. In 2006 Mayor Jerry Sanders deemed it the greatest high school wall of the whole city.
- See also
- Primary and secondary schools in San Diego, California
- List of high schools in San Diego County, California
- External links
- Point Loma High School website
- PLHS '75 Photo Gallery
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