Carlmont High School
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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 4-year |
| Motto | Truth-Liberty-Toleration |
| Established | 1952 |
| School district | Sequoia Union High |
| Principal | Ralph Crame |
| Staff | 101 (2011-2012) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Number of students | 2,147 (2015-2016) |
| Color(s) | Blue, White |
| Mascot | Scot |
| Publication | Scot Scoop |
| Newspaper | The Highlander |
| Yearbook | Vistas |
| Website | www |
Carlmont High School is a public high school in Belmont, California, United States serving grades 9–12 as part of the Sequoia Union High School District. Carlmont is a California Distinguished School.
Carlmont has students from Belmont, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Mateo.
Carlmont was founded in 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.
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 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.
2015-2016
In 2014, Scot Scoop News received the National Scholastic Press Association's Online Pacemaker.
In 2016, Scot Scoop News was announced as a finalist for the National Scholastic Press Association's Online Pacemaker.
The novel My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie adaptation Dangerous Minds were based upon her experience as a teacher at Carlmont in the 1990s. Most of her students were African-Americans and Hispanics bused in to Carlmont from East Palo Alto, a town at the opposite end of the school district from Carlmont. The student written about in the book and portrayed in the movie, were convinced to sign away their financial rights to their own story, and did not receive a cent, even though the movie grossed $174 million in the box office and the movie soundtrack went 3x Plantinum.
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