Moorpark High School
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| Moorpark High School | |
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4500 Tierra Rejada Rd. Moorpark, CA 93021 | |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1919 |
| Principal | Jason Peplinski |
| Enrollment | Approximately 2400 |
| Color(s) | Green and Gold |
| Mascot | Musketeer |
| Information | (805) 378-6305 |
| Website | http://mhs.mrpk.k12.ca.us/index.php |
Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.[1]
Moorpark High school has two chief feeder schools: Chaparral Middle School and Mesa Verde Middle School (Moorpark).
The current campus opened to students in the 1988-1989 school year. In its early years, it lacked a football field and an auditorium and contained only half of the classrooms it now has today. [citation needed]
Alma mater
- Alma Mater, Moorpark High
- Green and gold our banners fly
- Sons and daughters ever true
- Dedicate it all to you
- Though we may leave these happy days
- And our paths lead many ways
- We'll remember with a sigh:
- Alma Mater, Moorpark High!
Activities and clubs
Moorpark has many different clubs and activities available to students.[2] Some of those clubs include:
- Academic Decathlon (see below)
- ACT (Active Citizens of Today)
- ARC Radio Club
- ASB
- Asian Culture Club
- AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination)
- CSF
- Catholic Service Club (CSC)
- Environmental Club
- FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
- FLAMA (Future Leaders of America Master Achievers)
- French Club
- HSA (Health Science Academy)
- Indian Culture Club (ICC) (see below)
- Jewish Culture Appreciation Club
- Journalism
- MBA (Moorpark Business Academy)
- MHS band and Color guard
- MSP (Musical Show Production)
- MSA (Muslim Student Association)
- NHS (National Honor Society)
- Renaissance
- Spanish Club
- Teens for Humanity
- YAC (Youth Action Committee)
- Y&G (Youth and Government)
Academic Decathlon
Moorpark's Academic Decathlon team has won the national competition four times (1999, 2003, 2008, and 2009)[2] in addition to getting second place by a small margin during the 2005 season, as well as taking 3rd in the 2006 and 2007 California State competition. Also, since the Class of '94 squad won Moorpark's first county-level championship, Moorpark has dominated that competition. Indeed, since 1998, not including 2000, Moorpark has won all ten events at the County competition.[2] In 2000 they advanced to the state competition as a wild card, having placed second behind Simi Valley at the County competition. They came in second at the state competition, also behind Simi Valley, this time by a margin of 21 points. In the 2007 State Super Quiz competition, Moorpark became the first team in Academic Decathlon history to score a perfect sixty points in the Oral Relay. A year later, the Moorpark team achieved the highest score ever reached in nationals.
In the 1999 competition Moorpark actually fielded two teams ("A" team, and "B" team.) The A team took first place in the Ventura County competition, and the B team, a close second. In an unprecedented situation, the scores of both teams should have qualified them for state competition, the A team with the highest score in the state, as well as the county, earning the Ventura county seat, and the B team with a score ranking them 8th in the state should have been eligible for a wild card position. However, it was decided by the California Academic Decathlon, that although their score was better than 42 of the teams competing at the state competition, including all but one of the wild cards, that it was unfair to allow two teams from one school to compete. This was not a rule delineated in the official rule book of the Decathlon, because it had never occurred to the board that a school would find not just 9 exceptional students, but in fact 18. The rule that each school is only allowed to send one team to the state competition was added the following year. The 2008 "B" team also won second in the county competition and would have qualified for a wild card position.
In 2008, Moorpark's Acadeca team won the state competition in Sacramento, California, with the highest score ever recorded. They went on to win nationals in Garden Grove, California, breaking their own record for the highest team score at any level of competition (they won over Wisconsin by a mere 23 points). Some of the most achieving members dined with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Future Business Leaders of America
Moorpark's chapter is a consistent champion in the regional competitions. Since 1991, Moorpark has consecutively won 19 sectional competitions; they belong to the largest section in California, Gold Coast. The Moorpark Chapter has close to 200 members as of 2010, and remain the largest club on campus.
Indian Culture Club
The Indian Culture Club was founded in 2009 with the goal of spreading the culture of India. This club has run numerous programs in the city to help the less fortunate. It was started by Vikram Sidhu and Rikesh Patel, who were inspired to spread their culture after a trip back to their homeland. They wanted to help the less fortunate because they spent part of their childhood in the slums.
Other activities
Prior to the extensive residential development that took place beginning in 1982, Moorpark was a league doormat in football. Back-to-back playoff appearances in 1984-85 helped right the program, ending a nation's worst 46-game overall losing streak. Carpinteria remained Moorpark's nemesis, a national-record 51 consecutive wins by the Warriors over the Musketeers, which finally ended in the 1997 CIF playoffs when Moorpark went 13-1 and captured its first lower-division CIF championship.
Moorpark's heralded class of 1986 also helped revive the school newspaper, The Blade, and its alumni group boasts several attorneys, corporate finance executives, marketing professionals and educators.
The 1988-1989 band and color guard were among the four area high school bands (which included Thousand Oaks High School, Simi Valley High School, and Royal High School) invited to attend and perform at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
With rising enrollment, Moorpark athletics moved into the Marmonte League the year after beating Carpinteria, where it remains today. In 2005, Moorpark went to its first Division IV Championship game, losing to St. Bonaventure (Ventura) 27-7. A year later, Moorpark came back and lost in the first ever CIF North Division Championship to eventual state champion Canyon Country Cowboys, 24-22
Their track and field team won the Marmonte League championships in both 2004 and 2005 under the guidance and conditioning of coaches Case, Rohach, and Thomas (Thomas has left Moorpark High 2007). The girls track and field also won again in 2007.
The football team took their first ever Marmonte League Championship in 2005, and made it all they way to the championship game, succumbing to Saint Bonaventure.
The 2008 boy's Volleyball team won its first game of the season.
A new multi-million dollar gym was added in 2005.
The girl's varsity soccer team won 2nd place in CIF in 2007/2008.
Affiliates
Moorpark High School has 2 affiliate schools. The first is the Community High School, a newer campus (commonly referred to as "C School") that educates students not on track (for lack of credits) to graduate by assigning less classes to help make up lost and/or a deficiency in credits required for graduation. The second is The High School at Moorpark College, where students seeking to expand their education may opt to take college courses that fulfill both high school graduation requirement credits as well as earn college credit. Although not affiliated with the High School, some students elect to take the California High School Proficiency Exam or CHSPE, thereby graduating from high school, and take classes at Moorpark College for straight-up college credit.
Faculty
| Category | Total # of Teachers[3] |
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| Moorpark | 69 |
| District | 374 |
| County | 6,571 |
| State | 307,864 |
| Type of Credential | Teachers (State) | Teachers (MHS) |
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| Full | 307,864 (94.2%) | 102 (93.6%) |
| University Intern | 7,668 (2.5%) | 4 (3.7%) |
| District Intern | 2,690 (0.9%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Pre-Intern | 1,150 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Emergency | 9,922 (3.2%) | 5 (4.6%) |
| Waiver | 1,298 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) |
Footnotes
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