Troy High School (California)
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2200 East Dorothy Lane Fullerton, California, Orange County 92831 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°52′53″N 117°53′34″W / 33.88139°N 117.89278°WCoordinates: 33°52′53″N 117°53′34″W / 33.88139°N 117.89278°W |
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| Established | 1964 |
| School district | Fullerton Joint Union High School District |
| Superintendent | Scott Scambray |
| CEEB code | 051009 |
| Principal | William Mynster |
| Faculty | 112 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,685 (2016-2017) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red, Black, and White |
| Mascot | Wally the Warrior |
| Rival | Sunny Hills High School |
| Accreditation | Western Association of Schools and Colleges |
| National ranking | 13th (Business Insider |
| Average SAT scores | 1,917 |
| Newspaper | "The Oracle" |
| Yearbook | "Ilium" |
| Website | soundcloud |
Troy High School is a public magnet school situated in Fullerton, California, USA, acclaimed for its Troy Tech and International Baccalaureate programs. It is located in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District. As of the 2016-17 school year, 2685 students attend the school.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, then-principal Jerry Atkin was instrumental in developing and implementing a Science and Technology magnet program, known as Troy Tech, for Troy High School. Troy was one of 27 high schools nationwide honored as a New American High School by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2000. It has won first place in the U.S. National Science Olympiad in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, and 2015, and has also placed favorably in many other competitions on both the regional and national level, including the American Computer Science League (1st in the nation, 5th overall in 2005). Troy's Science Olympiad team has consistently attended nationals every year since 1994 except for 1995, and they have placed in the top 5 at nationals every year they have attended. Troy’s Science Bowl Team has placed first and second for four years in the Western Regional Science Bowl sponsored by NASA/JPL and the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2001, the team captured the national second place at the U.S. Dept. of Energy Competition in Washington, D.C.
A number of Troy Tech and International Baccalaureate students have received nationally recognized honors, by competing and often placing highly in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology and the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2008, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges granted the school a six-year accreditation.
The Girls' Basketball Team won the state CIF Division II Title in 2003, 2005, and 2006.Sports Illustrated ranked the team the #4 program in the country for 2006, and the Los Angeles Times ranked Troy the #5 program in all of Southern California for the second year in a row. In 2017 Kianna Smith was named as a McDonalds All American athelete. This is the first time anyone in the program has won the award. In 2017 the women's basketball program won the freeway league title for the 25th time in a row.
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