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Weed High School

Weed High School is a secondary school located in Weed, California and is part of the Siskiyou Union High School District.

For the 2006–07 school year, the school had student enrollment of 196, an Academic Performance Index (API) of 727 which is equal to the Siskiyou County average API for the same period, and above the CA state average API of 697. The student to teacher ratio was 30:1, and the student to computer ratio was 2:1. The school's racial/ethnic make-up was 40% white/Caucasian, 29% Latino/Hispanic, 31% black/African-American, which is considered quite diverse for a rural school in this geographic area.

Sports history

From 1961 through 1964, the Weed Cougars went undefeated in football. The 1963 team was ranked #1 in northern California by the Sacramento Bee, and later was inducted into the Northern California Sports Hall of Fame. In 2024, the Weed Lady Cougars varsity girls basketball won the CIF Northern Regional Division VI Championship. Though officially recognized as such, and with no Division VI schools in Southern California, the Cougars were recognized as the #1 small school in the state.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Weed High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
  2. ^ "Weed High School: School Accountability Report Card, 2006-2007" Siskiyou Union High School District.
  3. ^ Askeland, Kevin (2007). "California: Northern Section Notes". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  4. ^ Nilsson, Aaron (March 24, 2017). "Weed High School Football is into the History Books". News10 (KTVL Medford, OR). Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  5. ^ Sebastian, Simone (September 25, 2003). "Charlie Byrd -- California's first elected black sheriff". SFGATE. Retrieved August 2, 2021.