Edison High School, Huntington Beach

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Edison High School
Location
21400 Magnolia Street
Huntington Beach, California
Information
Type Public
Established 1969
Principal D'liese Melendrez
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Green and Gold
Mascot Charger
Website http://www.edisonchargers.com

Edison High School is a secondary school located in Huntington Beach, California which first began operation in 1969. It is a part of the Huntington Beach Union High School District, which includes several other area high schools. Edison is a California Distinguished High School as well as a Digital High School. It was built on land donated by Southern California Edison, whence its name is derived. Known for its athletic prowess, Edison High School has approximately 2200 students in grades nine through twelve. Most students after graduation attend Orange Coast College,or Golden West College also in Huntington Beach CA. however annually nearly 100 students from each graduating class attend the University of California colleges and the California State University colleges.

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[edit] Clubs

Edison has many noncurricular as well as curricular clubs. Non-curricular clubs are known as Equal Access Groups while academia related clubs are known as curricular clubs. Some non-curricular clubs include the Electronics Entertainment Club, Friends for Africa, Amnesty International, Procrastinator's Club, Wildman club, the Twilight club, and the Gay-Straight Alliance Club Association. There are fewer curricular clubs than non-curricular simply because curricular clubs must follow the academic curriculum. Such clubs include American Sign Language, CSF, Computer Club, National Honors Society, etc.

[edit] The Bolt

Beginning in November 2006, Logan Frick and Alex Braverman introduced the official campus newspaper, The Bolt. The Bolt represents the first revival of a newspaper on campus since the late 1990s. In 1992, a short lived alternative but officially sanctioned school newspaper, the Edison Axilla, published a few editions. There was also a school newspaper in the late 90's.

After a successful first year of publication with four issues and making profit, The Bolt underwent hard times after the 2007 year when all but one member of the staff graduated. The current staff consists of just under 20 people. The first issue of 2008 was released on December 5 to poor reception. Since then, the staff has decided to keep the paper alive but minimize the amount of papers printed to 500, but increased the website capabilities to include a "You Contribute" section. In the school year of 2009, the Bolt Staff introduced a Broadcasting sections available on their online version on the newspaper, at theboltonline.com. The online version is run by Edison teacher Ryan Hayes, and updated frequently by all editors. The 2009-2010 board for the Bolt newspaper includes Erica Gleason, Josh Francis, and Megan Kabre.

[edit] Band and Drumline

Edison's Winter Drumline received second place in the Southern California Percussion Alliance in 2006, especially impressive considering that it was only their second competitive season.

Edison Pageantry Corps (the marching band) placed 12th in the state in 2007 by the rankings of the Western Band Association, their first year in state level competition. In the 2008-2009 marching season, the Pageantry Corps. placed 3rd in the state, competing in The Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association.

Edison's Drumline came in 12th in the SCPA Finals in 2008.

[edit] Rivalry with Fountain Valley High School

Edison's rivalry with Fountain Valley is one of the oldest and fiercest rivalries in Orange County, and reaches a peak during Bell Week, when the two teams face each other in football. The rivalry was born in 1969, the first year of Edison's existence. Many Edison students had been at Fountain Valley before the new school opened, and thus knew many Fountain Valley students. The Charger football team upset Fountain Valley that year, preventing the heavily-favored Barons from reaching the playoffs. The two have hated each other ever since.

Edison High School and its chief rival, Fountain Valley High School, were actually constructed with the same blueprints. Prior to the demolition of the 300 building at FVHS, an Edison student on Fountain Valley's campus would find that the only differences between the two schools' building layouts were the trim: Edison has a Green and Gold trim while Fountain Valley has a blue and gold trim .

Because neither school has an on-campus stadium, the annual rivalry game is traditionally played at Orange Coast College. The 7,600-seat stadium at OCC is almost always sold out for the Bell game. Sometimes the game is played at Anaheim Stadium instead. The two teams met in the final game of the Big Five playoffs in 1980, drawing 28,969 fans to Anaheim Stadium. The crowd remains the largest to ever see a game between two Orange County public schools.

During Bell Week, students from both schools routinely play pranks on each other, often involving vandalism of the rival's campus. In the past, items thrown into the pool have included dead seals, a goat's head, Volkswagen Beetles, and mattresses. In the week following up to the Bell Game, which is usually that Friday, Edison students dress up as Fountain Valley "nerds" and engage in other school activities in order to raise school spirit. On the day of the game the school is covered from head to toe in banners with slogans such as "beat the Barons" and an assembly is held after the first class of the day to raise school spirit and awareness of the upcoming game.

Edison has won FVHS for the past 5 years.

[edit] Notable alumni

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Preceded by
Memorial High School		 National Academic Championship champion
1997		 Succeeded by
State College Area High School

Coordinates: 33°39′08″N 117°58′10″W / 33.6521°N 117.9694°W / 33.6521; -117.9694


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