Corona del Mar High School
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Corona del Mar High School Front Entrance: April 2015
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2101 Eastbluff Drive Newport Beach, California 92660 |
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| Coordinates | 33°38′01″N 117°52′36″W / 33.633537°N 117.876686°WCoordinates: 33°38′01″N 117°52′36″W / 33.633537°N 117.876686°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Home of the Sea Kings |
| Established | 1962 |
| School district | Newport-Mesa Unified School District |
| Principal | Kathy Scott (9-12), Becky Gogle (7-8) |
| Grades | 7 - 12 |
| Enrollment | 2,182 |
| Color(s) | Navy, Columbia blue, Silver |
| Athletics conference | Pacific Coast League |
| Team name | Sea Kings, Sea Queens (high school) Sea Weeds (junior high school) |
| Website | cdm |
Corona del Mar High School (CdM) is a public school located in the East Bluff neighborhood of Newport Beach, California, and belongs to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. It is a combination of a middle school (7th and 8th grades) and a high school (9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades). The school was founded in 1962 and has an enrollment of just over 2000 students.
It has been ranked by Newsweek as one of the top 200 high schools in the United States, and it has been a state champion in several sports. However, it has also been featured in the national media for scandals involving homophobia, sexism, and academic dishonesty.
The school was founded in 1962. In the mid 1970s, the school went through an extensive design process to develop its media center. The Marian Bergeson Aquatic Center, named for state senator Marian Bergeson who was from Newport Beach, opened in May 1990 at a cost of $1.75 million. In March 2015, a 29,000-square-foot (2,700 m2) performing arts center was finished. The center cost $16 million and seats more than 360 people.
The school has been placed on multiple national and state-level lists of "top schools". In 2011 U.S. News and World Report ranked it 127 of 21,786 high schools in math and science and Newsweek included it as number 172 of the 500 best high schools in the United States. It earned a gold medal from U.S. News and World Report in 2014, with a national ranking of 222 (37 in California).
Between 2009 and 2014 Corona del Mar was the subject of a series of controversies concerning sexism and homophobia. In February 2009, when a production of the musical Rent was cancelled, the theater teacher alleged it was due to the principal objecting to the play's depiction of homosexuality. Student demand eventually brought back the play. The following month, after a video surfaced of male students threatening to rape and kill a female peer, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the school for inadequately responding to, allowing, and even condoning an atmosphere of sexist and homophobic violence. A settlement was reached in September, when the District agreed to create and enforce anti-harassment policies and train both students and staff. In May 2014, the school again attracted negative attention for an NFL-style "prom draft" in which female students were ceremonially "drafted" as dates by their male peers. Writers for the Los Angeles Times cited a former Corona del Mar High School disciplinarian in their argument that the "draft" was the result of a problematic sense of entitlement among Newport Beach residents.
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