View west on Duarte Road from near intersection with Santa Anita. Street is lined on both sides with pepper trees. Note mailbox on left bears the number 20 W. Duarte Road - the current address of Arcadia Public Library. Groups of students are walking on south side of street to newly opened Arcadia High School which is on the right.
Aerial view taken from about over what became Campus Drive and Arcadia High School, and looking toward (NW) Pasadena and Sierra Madre at foot of San Gabriel Mountains. Photo shows Santa Anita Park Race Track possibly just a few years after opening.
Apparently taken in the High School gymnasium which has been decorated for special event. Many students are seated at tables, for what probably was a dinner following graduation.
For the third year in a row, a five-member team from Arcadia High School took top honors in the regional National Science Bowl and is headed for national competition in Washington, D.C., in May.
The Arcadia Unified School District Telethon aims to raise about $50,000 for Arcadia Educational Foundation's $2.5 million "Connect to the Future" capital campaign to bring the latest technology to every district classroom by 2000.
A quiz team from Arcadia High School faced tougher competition than expected in the National Science Bowl in Maryland in the second to last round, placing among the top 12 teams nationally.
Five high school whiz-kids left Friday for the National Science Bowl in Maryland. The team includes Alex Fabrikant, Alex Hong, Brian Li, Silvia Ngo and Vincent Auyeung.
Arcadia High School offers unique peer mentoring program for students with autism. Upperclass students mentor their peers with autism. The program has been around for six years. Genevieve Huffman, speech pathologist at Arcadia High School, is founder of this program. She explains that autism is a neurobehavioral spectrum disorder that can include a range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communications, and others, and also reflects the wide variation in strengths possessed by each person with autism.
Arcadia High School takes first in the JPL Regional Science Bowl and is headed to nationals in April. See also Mountain Views News, p. 9, January 29, 2022.
Arcadia High School offers unique courses to provide further collegiate opportunity. For over 50 years, Arcadia High School has offered a variety of Career Technical Education (CTE) courses, allowing students to gain hands-on experience, such as in graphic design, engineering, computer science, dance, stagecraft, video production, and sports medicine.
Big moment: 729 walk in Arcadia High School graduation ceremony at Santa Anita Park. Kailin Kathy Liu was the valedictorian. There were 116 salutatorians and their names are listed. The school had a graduation rate of 99.7% with an average GPA of 3.46 and average SAT score of 1360.
Arcadia students receive diplomas. Class of 1983--Arcadia High School, First Avenue Junior High School, Dana Junior High School, and Foothills Junior High School. Arcadia Tribune staff photos by Jay Hoover and Louis Nunez.
Class of 2023 graduations happening in Arcadia include:
June 1-Arroyo Pacific Academy graduation at Arroyo Pacific Academy, 325 North Santa Anita Avenue.
June 8-Arcadia High School graduation at Santa Anita Park Racetrack, 285 West Huntington Drive.
Also, June 6-Gabrielino High School (located in San Gabriel) graduation will be held at Santa Anita Park Racetrack.
Arcadha High School welcomes community to Spring Preview Open House on Thursday, 4:00-6:30 at 180 Campus Drive. All are invited to see what it's like to be a student at Arcadia High School.
A television from Macedonia videotapes a government class at Arcadia High School to show how local politics and citizenship participation work in this country. The finished program will air in Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria.
Arcadia High School girls' golf team is improving and hopes to finish in the top five of the CIF Divisional team championships. The article includes a photo of the team.
Arcadia High School teacher Kevin Fox is in a photograph with the 24-member Constitution Team. They placed fourth statewide in a competition in Sacramento last week.
Controversy surrounds the appointment of a new principal at Arcadia High School as the district interview committee forwarded only one candidate to the school board for approval. The contract requires 2-4 candidates be reviewed. The teachers' union protested.
