John Muir High School (Pasadena, California)
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1905 N Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°10′43″N 118°09′36″W / 34.178513°N 118.159871°WCoordinates: 34°10′43″N 118°09′36″W / 34.178513°N 118.159871°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | "The Home of the Mighty Mustangs" |
| Established | 1954 |
| Principal | Timothy Sippel |
| Faculty | 49 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | CIF Southern Section Pacific League |
| Mascot | The Mustang |
| Rival | Pasadena High School |
| Accreditation | WASC |
| Website | www |
John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir.
The school's buildings were originally a part of John Muir Junior College (not to be confused with John Muir College in San Diego, California). The junior college merged with Pasadena City College, and converted to a two-year high school in the Fall semester of 1954. (The senior students of the first graduating high-school class in 1955 were freshmen of the previous two-year junior college in the prior year.) It later become a full four-year high school, located on Lincoln Avenue in northwest Pasadena.
Prior to 1964, many white students from the community of La Canada Flintridge, California joined those from the black neighborhood of northwest Pasadena and the racially mixed community of Altadena, and enrollment was nearly 3,000 students. In 1963, La Canada Flintridge, California built its own high school and removed its students, except for those who would graduate in 1964. Shortly after that, the Pasadena City School District created Blair High School, siphoning off another large portion of the school's population.
Approximately 1100 students attended John Muir High School during the 2012-2013 school year. The student body is 65% Hispanic, 30% Black/non-Hispanic, 2% White, 1% Asian/Pacific-Islander and 1% two or more races.
In 2014, Muir Engineering Academy senior Brenden Dickerson was named an Edison Scholar. Brenden is one of 30 high school seniors from across Southern California Edison’s (SCE) service territory who have been named 2014 Edison Scholars, each winning a $40,000 scholarship offered by Edison International, parent company of SCE.
In 2014 and 2011, John Muir High School’s Solar Cup team won 1st place in the 200 m sprint competition– beating the rest of the schools from the Foothill Division including Arcadia, Duarte, and La Cañada. Solar Cup is a competition in which high school teams totaling about 800 students build and race solar-powered boats at Lake Skinner, in Temecula Valley.
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