Chula Vista Senior High School - Chula Vista, California/CA

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Chula Vista Senior High School

820 Fourth Ave., Chula Vista, CA, 91911-1102 -

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Definition of Terms

Chula Vista Senior High School

School Level

High school

School Type

Magnet School

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

San Diego County, CA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2904 students

% Male / % Female

48% / 52%

Total Classroom Teachers

123 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 749 students

Grade 10 - 795 students

Grade 11 - 747 students

Grade 12 - 608 students

Grade Not Listed - 5 students

This School

(CA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:24

1:23

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(CA) School Average

% American Indian	1%	3%
% Asian	5%	8%
% Hispanic	81%	39%
% Black	5%	9%
% White	8%	36%

Additional Student Information

This School

(CA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

35%

30%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

16%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(CA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Sweetwater Union High School District

This School's Agency

(CA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	29	7
Number of Students Managed	41,865 students	3,960 students
District Total Revenue	$377,164,000	$37,604,000
District Expenditure	$433,534,000	$39,520,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,009	$9,496
District Expenditure / Student	$10,356	$9,980
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Chula Vista High School (CVHS) in Chula Vista, California, was founded in 1947. It is part of the Sweetwater Union High School District. The school colors are "spartan" blue and white, and the mascot is Sammy Spartan. The school's main rival is the Sweetwater High School Red Devils.
The Sweetwater Union High School District's School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) is part of Chula Vista High School. The SCPA offers high school "majors" in dance, vocal music, guitar, mariachi, band, orchestra, ballet folklorico, drama, stage tech, and art.
Sports
Sports at CVHS make this school "The Home of the Champions". Fall sports offered include football, cross country, girl's volleyball, water polo, girl's tennis, and field hockey. Winter sports offered include basketball, soccer, roller hockey, and wrestling. Spring sports offered include baseball, softball, track, swimming, lacrosse, and golf. The wrestling team is a young team, but has great potential for this upcoming season, with many returning sophomore wrestlers and a returning Freshman wrestler.
Vocal Music
The Main Attraction (MA) Is the advanced auditioned show-choir (in CVHS). "MA", as they are also known as, is directed by Tony Atienza. Silhouettes and New Renaissance which are the two advanced audition choirs directed by Barbara Schroeder. Lucas Dominguez directs the Spartan Gospel Choir.
Band
The Chula Vista High School Marching and Symphonic Band is headed under the direction of Mr. Zig Kanstul. Also offered is the CVHS Jazz Ensemble, which is directed by Mr. Kanstul as well. Under the tutelage of Mr. and Mrs. Kanstul, the CVHS band as a whole and the colorguard have strived to achieve numerous awards and accolades. They host the Chula Vista Band Review, an annual collaboration of bands from all over Southern California in which the bands compete in parade marches down Broadway in Chula Vista. Every year around the holidays, they perform at Downtown Chula Vista's Starlight Parade.
Mariachi Chula Vista
Mariachi Chula Vista is the performing group made up of 16 of the most advanced students from the Mariachi Program at CVHS, taught by Mr. Mark fogelquist(MA from UCLA in 1975)
Mariachi Chula Vista was formed at Chula Vista High School in September 2001. Since then, Mariachi Chula Vista performs at over 200 events every year and has earned a reputation as one of the best student mariachis in the country. The group has appeared at festivals and educational events in Albuquerque, Tucson, Santa Barbara, Las Cruces, Salt Lake City, Utah, Mesa, Arizona,San Jose San Diego,Victorville Seattle Wenatchee,Sun Valley Idaho,Rawlins, Wyoming,Casper Wyoming, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Mariachi Chula Vista won $5000 first price in San Diego Viejas Competition (2004), first Prize 2004 second prize in 2005, first prize in 2006 at Albuqerque, first prize in 2006 and 2007 in San Juan Capistrano, 2nd place Albuqerque 2008, and 2nd place Anaheim 2008, 1st place open division Alburqueque and 1st place overall 2009. Mariachi Chula Vista will be releasing their first album in 2009. Mariachi Chula Vista has shared stages with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, Mariachi Sol de Mexico, Mariachi Los Camperos,Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles, Mariachi Internacional Guadalajara, Mariachi America.
SCPA Production Drama
As one of the best programs in the Sweetwater District, Chula Vista High School's Production Drama works hard and has a record to prove it. Taught by Mrs. Joyce Shumaker since its birth in the late 1970s, Production Drama is the advanced drama class. In production drama the students not only perfect their acting talents, but also learn the necessary skills of running a theater such as: box office (both manually and computerized), concession running, house managing, stage managing, directing, and even supporting like Chula Vista's famous Coffee Shoppe. With the combined help of Stage Tech, Drama Production puts on musicals in the fall and straight plays in fall.
Notable alumni
Billy Casper, professional golfer, 1950
Tim Danielson, sub-4 minute miler in high school
Walter Emanuel Jones, Black Power Ranger
Donnie Edwards, former San Diego Chargers linebacker currently with the Kansas City Chiefs, 1991
Mario Lopez, actor, gameshow host, 1991
Creighton Mueller, President of Collision Body Shops in the Pacific Northwest & first person to sue Rolls Royce Motor Co. and win, 1953
Ty Wigginton, professional baseball player, 1995
Charisma Carpenter, actress, 1988
J. Michael Straczynski, writer/producer, 1972.
Arturo Castro, professional golfer, 1990
Jason Sims-Prewitt, gained roles in Drumline (2002), The Fighting Temptations (2003), Arrested Development as agent Jay (2005), and The World According to Barnes as Henry Lewis (2007)
Mary Castillo, author of Switchcraft and Hot Tamara, 1992
Robert Lopez, aka El Vez, "The Mexican Elvis"
Rosa Gallegos c/o 1994
External links
Official website
Chula Vista Master School Index
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