La Sierra High School

La Sierra High School, located in Riverside, California, United States, is a public high school in the Alvord Unified School District that was founded on August 28, 1969. Celeste Migliaccio is the principal. La Sierra High School's official school colors are navy blue and white. Red is the accent color and has been since the school opened.

La Sierra High School
Address
4145 La Sierra Avenue

Riverside
,
California
92505

United States
Coordinates33°54′33″N 117°28′45″W
Information
TypePublic
Motto"Soaring high with pride"
Established1969
PrincipalCeleste Migliaccio
Staff78.82 (FTE)[1]
Enrollment1,723 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio21.86[1]
Color(s)Navy blue and white         
MascotEagle
WebsiteLa Sierra High

The two main feeder schools for La Sierra High are Arizona and Villegas intermediate schools. La Sierra's rivals are Norte Vista and Hillcrest, the other public high schools in Alvord Unified.

Recent events

In 2005, La Sierra High School was awarded a 6-year clear accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, making it the first comprehensive high school in the entire Inland Empire to earn this distinction.

In the 2007-2008 school year, approximately 3,200 students attended La Sierra High.

Hillcrest High School opened in fall 2012 to relieve crowding at La Sierra.

Academics and test scores

Test scores

API

In 2005, La Sierra High School increased its API to 715 from the 2004 base score of 679. Although it met the school-wide growth target, it did not meet the state subgroup growth targets. To encourage schools to improve achievement for all students, the state computes APIs and sets improvement targets for the different student subgroups at the school.

2005 API base by subgroup
SubgroupAPI base
All students715
African-American690
Asian791
Hispanic676
White/Caucasian761
Socioeconomically
disadvantaged		664
English learners648
Special education487

CST results

In 2005, La Sierra's students met or exceeded the state expectations on the California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) as listed below:[2]

SubjectFreshmen pass rate (%)Sophomore pass rate (%)Junior pass rate (%)
Algebra 1423
Algebra 280246
Biology / Life sciences201412
Chemistry--2212
Earth sciences52019
English393230
Geometry46106
World history--29--
U.S. history----39

CAHSEE results

All data below reflect the percentage of sophomore, junior and senior students who passed the CAHSEE sections.

ELA[3]
YearPercent passed
200265
200367
200471
200565
200661
Mathematics[3]
YearPercent passed
200224
200340
200470
200567
200691

Athletics

La Sierra is a member of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) River Valley League along with Hillcrest, Jurupa Valley, Norte Vista, Patriot and Ramona high schools. They won the boys' state team track title in June 2009 which was the first boys' team track title in Riverside County history

Teachers
CategoryTotal # of teachers[4]
La Sierra120
District899
County18,164
State307,864
Type of credentialTeachers (state)Teachers (LSHS)
Full307,864 (94.2%)114 (95.0%)
University intern7,668 (2.5%)3 (2.5%)
District intern2,690 (0.9%)2 (1.7%)
Pre-intern1,150 (0.4%)0 (0.0%)
Emergency9,922 (3.2%)1 (0.8%)
Waiver1,298 (0.4%)0 (0.0%)

According to the California Department of Education, in the 2005-2006 school year, teachers at La Sierra had 11.1 years average teaching experience and had spent an average of 10 years teaching in the Alvord Unified School District. The average class size was ~ 34.

Notable alumni
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References
  1. "La Sierra High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  2. California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program . Accessed November 2, 2006.
  3. California High School Exit Examination Cahsee Results. Accessed November 2, 2006.
  4. California Department of Education website. CDE website. Accessed November 2, 2006.
  5. "What is known so far about Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino shooting suspects". 4 December 2015.
  6. LA SIERRA HS 1985 FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO WCC JESSE JAMES
  7. "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
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