Armijo High School
| Armijo High School | |
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| File:Armijo4.jpg Armijo High School, home of the Indians | |
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United States | |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | All students can grow and achieve. It is everyone's responsibility to see that the opportunity is present. |
| Established | 1891[7] [8] |
| School district | Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District |
| Principal | Eric Tretten[1] |
| Faculty | 110.7 (on FTE basis)[2] |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 2472[2] (2005–2006) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 22.3[2] |
| Color(s) | Purple and Gold[6] |
| Athletics conference | CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I[5] |
| Mascot | The Indian |
| Nickname | AHS, Armijo High, Armijo |
| Team name | Armijo Indians[6] |
| Accreditation | Western Association of Schools and Colleges[3] International Baccalaureate[4] |
| Publication | The Armijo Signal |
| Yearbook | La Mezcla |
| Former name | Armijo Union High School[8] |
| Website | ww4.fsusd.k12.ca.us/schools/armijo/ |
Armijo High School is a public secondary school located in Fairfield, California. The school serves about 2500 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.
In 1891 Armijo began as a small one-room school house with 30 students, and grew over the past 100 years to its present size of 2,600 students. It has served its alumni through world wars, depression, and many good years, encouraging its students to take what they had learned and give to the community and the country.
The school started with a single classroom over Crystal Elementary School, with a mere thirty students. After that, it was moved to a simple wooden frame building where it remained for about fifteen years. During that time the student population ranged from about twenty to forty students, very small in comparison to today's size. The school was then moved to the large white, stone building that is now used as courthouse. There it stayed for about fifty years, and this is where it grew the most. Within the last thirty years we moved to the buildings that Armijo is presently situated in at 824 Washington Street.
Though the buildings that housed Armijo have changed, the name and the purpose of Armijo has always remained. Since 1891, many people have passed through its halls; people that went on to be famous, and people that are memorable in their own right. In the beginning, alumni were kept track of after they graduated. There were always pages in the first yearbooks stating what its alumni were doing at that present day. Armijo has survived a lot of damage; earthquakes, fires, and just trying to cope with time.
Notable alumni
- Robert E. "Rufus" Bowen (Class of 1964), Mathematician
- Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis and the News Saxophonist/Guitarist[9]
- Huck Flener, Major League Baseball player[10][11]
- Robert F. Hale (Class of 1964), Presidential appointee
- George Martin (Class of 1971), National Football League player[12]
- Pat Morita, actor[13]
- Joseph Fossum-Perez, actor[14]
References
- ^ "Armijo High School Administrators". Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ a b c "Armijo High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ "Directory of Schools 2007-2008" (PDF). Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ "Armijo High School". International Baccalaureate Organization. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
IB school code: 001317...since July 2001
- ^ "SJS League Alignment 2006-2010". Sac-Joaquin Section. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ a b "Armijo Indians". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ History of Armijo High School. Armijo High School. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
- ^ a b Goerke-Shrode, Sabine (2005). Fairfield. Arcadia Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 0738528889.
- ^ Richard Freedman (September 6, 2002). "Colla sings like a demon on "Lucky Devil"". Vallejo Times-Herald. reprint at johnnycolla.com. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ "Huck Flener Statistics". The Baseball Cube dick. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ Mike Lefkow (July 26, 1996). "CARTER'S BLAST TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW". Contra Costa Times. pp. D01.
- ^ "George Martin Statistics". databaseFootball.com. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ "Sacramento Area Native Pat Morita Dies". The Sacramento Union. November 25, 2005. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ "Joseph Fossum-Perez IMDB". March 25, 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-25.