Great Oak High School | |
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32555 Deer Hollow Way Temecula, California 92592 United States |
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Established | 2004 |
School district | Temecula Valley Unified School District |
Principal | Aimee Ricken |
Grades | 9th - 12th |
Enrollment | 3,600+ |
Color(s) | True Red, Navy Blue, White |
Mascot | Wolfpack |
Rival | Temecula Valley High School |
Website | Great Oak High School |
Great Oak High School, opened in 2004, lies at the base of Wolf Valley in Temecula, California, USA, in Riverside County in the Temecula Valley Unified School District. In 2009 and 2010, Great Oak High School was listed in Newsweek's annual top 1000 high schools in America. GOHS was ranked #700 in 2010. Great Oak is ranked 84th in the State of California, as of 2016.
Great Oak also offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Currently, the High School is a Nationally Recognized IB World School.
The school adopted the acronym SPIRIT which stands for Scholarship, Passion, Integrity, Reflection, Involvement, and Teamwork. SPIRIT teaches the students to always strive to do their best in school work and interest, strive to always tell the truth, fix mistakes and always look to improve, involve yourself on campus, outside of campus, and throughout the community, and to always work as a team and with others.
Great Oak High School's athletic teams are known as the and compete in California's CIF Southern Section. The school has boys' football, girls' and boys' basketball, girls' volleyball, girls' and boys' tennis, girls' and boys' water polo, girls' and boys' swimming, girls' and boys' golf, girls' and boys' soccer, track and field, cross country, boys' wrestling, baseball and softball, and girls' and boys' lacrosse. During the 2015-2016 school year, the school was able to include a Boys' Volleyball team which will compete against other schools in the CIF section.