Poway High School (Poway)

Poway High School
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15500 Espola Road Poway, San Diego, California 92064 United States of America
Coordinates	32°59′53″N 117°01′30″W / 32.99806°N 117.02500°W / 32.99806; -117.02500Coordinates: 32°59′53″N 117°01′30″W / 32.99806°N 117.02500°W / 32.99806; -117.02500
Information
School type	Public
Motto	Faithful Titans we will be through the years to you
Established	September 1961; 56 years ago (1961-09)
School district	Poway Unified
Superintendent	Melavel Robertson
School code	052533
Principal	Ron Garrett
Grades	9th – 12th grade
Years taught	4
Gender	Unisex
Enrollment	2,359 (2017-18)
Medium of language	English
Language	English
School color(s)	Emerald Green and Grey
Fight song	Sons of Westwood
Athletics conference	CIF
Mascot	Tommy Titan
Rival	Rancho Bernardo High School
Newspaper	The Iliad
Yearbook	Odyssey
Feeder schools	Bernardo Heights Middle School Meadowbrook Middle School Twin Peaks Middle School
Website	Poway High School

Poway High School is a four-year secondary school in southern California accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Established in 1961, its approximately 2,408 students are from the suburban communities of Poway and Rancho Bernardo, north of the city of San Diego. The school has curricula for university-bound, college-bound, and vocation-bound graduates. About 1% of the high school's graduates join the military, 3% get civilian employment; 1% enroll in special schools, 37% enroll in two-year colleges, and 54% go to four-year colleges and universities. Some of its alumni are famous athletes.

The high school has a campus with several buildings. Elective course offerings include agriculture, floral design, architectural design, and computer animation. Other activities include automobile repair and design, choir, marching band, and photography. Its athletic teams are called the Titans. It has a Theatre Guild.

In 2004, the school forbade a student from wearing an anti-gay T-shirt during the school's Gay–Straight Alliance's Day of Silence. The student, Tyler Chase Harper, filed suit, claiming that the school had violated his constitutional rights. The case was Harper v. Poway Unified School District. In 2006, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a divided decision, denied the student's claim and held that the school's regulation of student speech in this case was constitutional. The student sought review in the U.S. Supreme Court; in 2007, the Court vacated the judgment as moot because Harper had graduated.

In 2011, in a separate case, Johnson v. Poway Unified School District, the Ninth Circuit found that the school board could order a teacher to remove religious decorations (specifically, 7-foot wide, 2-foot high banners bearing Christian phrases) from his classroom, holding that the speech of teachers in school settings is government speech.

The four-year secondary school is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It has approximately 2,408 students and employs 90 teachers, 62 support staff, 4 administrators, 4 counselors, 1 psychologist and 1 librarian. The length of its class periods vary and add to 297 minutes per week. Every Monday is a "professional growth day", with 54-minute periods. It is a trimester based system with class periods 70 minutes long from Tuesday through Thursday. Periods are 65 minutes on Friday

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