Carlmont High School
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Truth-Liberty-Toleration
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| 1400 Alameda De Las Pulgas Belmont, California,  United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°30′23″N 122°17′24″W / 37.5063°N 122.2901°WCoordinates: 37°30′23″N 122°17′24″W / 37.5063°N 122.2901°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1952 |
| School district | Sequoia Union High |
| Principal | Raul Zamora |
| Staff | 108 (2007-08) [1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Number of students | 2,295 (2007–08)[1] |
| Color(s) | Blue, White |
| Mascot | Scot |
| Website | Carlmont High School |
Carlmont High School is an American public high school located in Belmont, California, United States serving grades 9–12 as part of the Sequoia Union High School District. Carlmont is a California Distinguished School.
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[edit] History
Carlmont has a student body with a variety of students from many different cities including Belmont, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Mateo. Its name derives from the campus straddling the two adjacent cities of San Carlos and Belmont (thus the portmanteau of San Carlos + Belmont). Because this hilly area is also referred to as "the highlands", the school team was named "The Scots", and the mascot is a kilted Scottish highland warrior. The Carlmont campus was built on 42 acres (17 ha) at a cost of about $2.5 million.
Carlmont was originally founded in the year 1952 as "a school within a school" at Sequoia High School, with four hundred fifty freshman and sophomore students. On April 19, 1953, the school was dedicated to Truth- Liberty- Toleration. The morning after, the students arrived by bus caravan from Sequoia high school to occupy the newly built high school facility.
Today, Carlmont has a student body of 2,160.[2] The school offers many sports and extracurricular activities that promote student involvement and creativity.
During the mid-summer of 2007, Carlmont began the construction of a theater for Choir, Band etc. The construction has since been completed, and the first public use of the building will be in March when the theater had a gala opening showcasing the school's musical Oklahoma!.
As of Mid-2009, Carlmont is building new choir and orchestra rooms to house the ever growing music program. In May 2010, Carlmont finished the construction of the choir and orchestra rooms, which is next to the performing arts building.
In the fall of 2011, Carlmont finished the construction of the biotechnology and science wing, located in the back of the school near the school's second baseball field.
[edit] Demographics
Today's Carlmont enrollment is made up of a diverse ethnic population which lives in the communities of Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood Shores (a subdivision of Redwood City), and East Palo Alto.
[edit] Alumni
- Michelle McLaughlin, Playboy Playmate of the Month for February 2008.
- Dana Carvey, actor and comedian.
- Bill Ring, Class of 1975, played for the San Francisco 49ers football team in the early 1980s.
- David Nelson - musician
- Craig Barrett, former Chief Executive Officer, Intel Corporation
- Ryan Boschetti defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders football team.
- Alfred Brown, Class of 1988, played for the Denver Broncos football team in the early 1990s.
- Delaine Eastin, Class of 1965, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
- Cork Graham, Class of 1982, combat photographer imprisoned in Vietnam for illegally entering the country while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
- Tiffany Lam, Class of 1999, former Miss Hong Kong 2002. Her family owns the ABC Restaurant Group.
- Bo Lotti - Class of 2010, janitor
[edit] Dangerous Minds
The novel My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie Dangerous Minds were loosely based upon her experience as a teacher at Carlmont in the 1990s.[3] Most of her students were African-Americans and Hispanics bused in to Carlmont from East Palo Alto, a then-unincorporated town at the opposite end of the school district from Carlmont. With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American and Hispanic student body was bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time. A subsequent 'Open Enrollment' policy in the school district permitted East Palo Alto students to attend high schools closer to home, space permitting.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b California Department of Education - Dataquest
- ^ Carlmont High School: Home of the Scots - About Carlmont
- ^ Guthmann, Edward (1995-08-11). "Teacher Role Hokey, But It Works for Pfeiffer". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/08/11/DD30227.DTL. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
