Fort Bragg High School

Fort Bragg High School
Official logo of Fort Bragg High School, an abstract representation of a wolf's head in the school's official shade of purple
Address
Map of Northern California with the school's location labelled
Fort Bragg High School
Location of school in Northern California
300 Dana St.
Fort Bragg, California 95437
United States
Coordinates 39°26′16″N 123°47′18″W / 39.4378°N 123.7882°W / 39.4378; -123.7882Coordinates: 39°26′16″N 123°47′18″W / 39.4378°N 123.7882°W / 39.4378; -123.7882[1]
Information
School type Public, Comprehensive high school
Motto Be Respectful. Be Prepared. Work Hard. [2]
Established November 6, 1907 (1907-11-06)[3]
School district Fort Bragg Unified School District
NCES District ID 0614070
Superintendent Rebecca Walker[4]
CEEB code 050955
NCES School ID 061407001610
Principal Bruce Triplett[5]
Teaching staff 31.96[6]
Grades 9 through 12
Enrollment 518[6] (2015-16)
Student to teacher ratio 16.21:1[6]
Color(s) Purple, white and grey             
Fight song Timberwolf Territory[2]
Athletics conference CIF North Coast Section, Coastal Mountain Conference, North Central I League[7]
Mascot Timmy the Timberwolf[8]
Nickname Timberwolves[2]
Rival Willits High School
Average SAT scores (2015-16) 1506[9]
Newspaper The Howl[2]
Yearbook Breath of Ocean[2]
Feeder schools Fort Bragg Middle School
Website sites.google.com/fbusd.us/fbhs/home

Fort Bragg High School is the public high school in Fort Bragg, California, United States, responsible for educating students in the ninth through twelfth grades. It is the only high school in the Fort Bragg Unified School District, serving 518 of the district's 1,934 students in the 2015-16 school year. The school services a remote area with 14,689 residents over more than 251 square miles.[10]

History

While Fort Bragg established two schools for younger children early in its history, the City Grammar School in 1889[11] and Park Grammar School in 1895[12], no effort was made to provide a secondary education for older children until 1907. On November 6th of that year the first public secondary school opened and was dedicated on the Mendocino Coast, built by one "Mr. Biggers" on property the city purchased from Dave Brandon near the intersection of Harrison and Bush streets. It was known as Fort Bragg Union High School, it quickly outgrew its accommodations, requiring an addition to be built in 1916 that doubled the amount of classrooms. When that too became inadequate, it catalyzed the construction of one of the largest buildings in town to the present day.[3]

Attached to the new high school, Cotton Auditorium opened on July 1, 1937, an 842-seat auditorium complete with double-aisle orchestra, a balcony and six luxury boxes, still the largest performing arts space in the 200 mile section of California coastline between Eureka and Santa Rosa. The next year the school was complete and operating there as well.

Academics

The state Department of Education's 2017 report showed that only 28.6% of males and 49.1% of females in the graduating class had successfully completed the minimum coursework necessary to apply for acceptance at the state's two public university systems, University of California and California State University, with a 2.0 GPA or higher.[13]

Demographics

The demographic makeup of the 518 students enrolled for 2015-2016 was:

  • Male - 47.3%
  • Female - 52.7%
  • Native American/Alaskan - 1.0%
  • Asian/Pacific islanders - 1.4%
  • Black - 1.0%
  • Hispanic - 41.6%
  • White - 50.4%
  • Multiracial - 4.6%

56.9% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch. For 2015-2016, Fort Bragg was a Title I school.[6]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Fort Bragg High School". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "FBHS Student Handbook, 2018-19". Google Docs. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  3. 1 2 "Photo Union High School". Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  4. ↑ "FBUSD Administration Contact Information". Google Docs. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  5. ↑ "School Profile: Fort Bragg High (CA Dept of Education)". www.cde.ca.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Fort Bragg High School NCES CCD Public school data 2015-2016". National Center for Educational Statistics. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  7. ↑ "CIF North Coast Section League Alignments for 2018-2020" (PDF). 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  8. ↑ "What time is it? Wolves' time!". Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  9. ↑ "California Department of Education Academic Acountability Unit: SAT Report - Fort Bragg High School Scores". data1.cde.ca.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  10. ↑ "Census profile: Fort Bragg Unified School District, CA". Census Reporter. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  11. ↑ "Photo City Grammar School". www.fortbragghistory.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  12. ↑ "Photo Park Grammar School". www.fortbragghistory.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  13. ↑ "School Graduation Numbers". dq.cde.ca.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
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