Mission High School (San Francisco, California)
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3750 18th Street San Francisco, California 94114 United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°45′42″N 122°25′38″W / 37.761775°N 122.427306°WCoordinates: 37°45′42″N 122°25′38″W / 37.761775°N 122.427306°W |
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| Established | 1890 |
| Principal | Eric Guthertz |
| Faculty | 66 (2007-8) |
| Enrollment | 854 (2008-9) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Teams | Bears |
| Website | SFUSD School Site |
| Designated | 2007 |
| Reference no. | 255 |
Mission High School is a public high school in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) San Francisco, California.
Serving grades 9-12, Mission is the oldest high school on its original site in San Francisco; it has been on 18th Street, between Dolores and Church, since 1896. The original campus burned in 1922, and the replacement was completed in 2 stages, the west wing in 1925 and the main building was dedicated by San Francisco mayor James Rolph on June 12, 1927. Originally, girls and boys had separate courtyards. The boys' is overlooked by the "baby tower", about 100 feet (30 m) high, and the girls' (right) topped by a 127-foot (39 m)-high baroque dome. Mission Creek runs beneath the school.
The school is 2 blocks from Mission Dolores, from which it gets its name. The current student body is diverse, with Latino and Asian students constituting the 2 largest ethnic groups, although neither group makes up a majority of the student body.
The lobby leads to a theater that has 1,750 folding wooden seats on 2 levels and a gold leaf ceiling. Grand as any movie palace, it was outfitted with twin 35 mm projectors. Funding never came through for the elaborate pipe organ system it was promised, but the chandeliers have been re-lamped.
Mission High School was founded in 1890, although it was housed in various Mission District locations until 1896. That year, the Board of Education purchased a parcel of land from the Jewish Cemetery Association to construct a permanent school building. The original Mission High School building was completed in 1898 as a three-story brick school designed in the Italian Renaissance Beaux-Arts style. The building withstood the 1906 earthquake, and became a neighborhood shelter, while Dolores Park, which stands across the street from the school, became a tent city for displaced residents.
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