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Granite Hills High School (Porterville, California)

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Coordinates: 36°04′06″N 118°58′43″W / 36.0684°N 118.9786°W / 36.0684; -118.9786
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Granite Hills High School
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1701 E Putnam Ave., Porterville, CA 93257
Coordinates36°04′06″N 118°58′43″W / 36.0684°N 118.9786°W / 36.0684; -118.9786
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School districtPorterville Unified School District
PrincipalJacob Bowker
Staff56.98 (FTE)[1]
Enrollment1,242 (2022–2023)[1]
Student to teacher ratio21.80[1]
Color(s)Cardinal and silver    [3]
NicknameGrizzlies[2]

Granite Hills High School, established in 1999, is one of the eleven high schools in Porterville, Tulare County, California. Jacob Bowker is the principal. A previous principal was Apolinar Marroquin.

Its online newspaper, the Grizzly Gazette, was a top million finalist in the National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Competition in the 2005–06 school year and were winners the following two years.----

The Granite Hills Academic Decathlon team won the Tulare County Academic Decathlon Regional Championship for the 6th consecutive year.

he school's girls soccer team forfeited a game in 2022 because of the other team included a transgender athlete.[4][5]

The school offers an "Academy of Law Justice and Ethics" program.[6] In 2022, students from the school's Academy of Law Justice and Ethics investigated a simulated murder scene[7]

In 2018, a student stabbed himself.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Granite Hills High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "Welcome! – Boys Basketball – Granite Hills High School". Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Granite Hills (Porterville, CA) High School Sports - Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, and more". Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. ^ Romo, Vanessa (2022-11-21). "Team forfeits girls' soccer game over transgender athlete". KMPH. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  5. ^ Greenstein, Henry (18 November 2022). "Porterville-Granite Hills forfeits girls soccer game over eligibility of Mira Monte transgender athlete". The Bakersfield Californian. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  6. ^ Johnson II, Jermaine (2020-11-18). "Bedrock of future criminal justice jobs built on Granite Hills campus". The Sun-Gazette Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  7. ^ Avila, Esther (May 13, 2022). "CSI Granite: Students investigate mock murder scene". Porterville Recorder. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  8. ^ Cederlof, Calley (2018-08-16). "Porterville student stabs himself, high school placed on lockdown". Visalia Times-Delta. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
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