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.
A team of Arcadia High School advanced placement government students edged out 48 other state champion teams to win the 6th annual "We the People... the Citizen and the Constitution" competition in Washington, D.C.
The Arcadia High School team is preparing for the state championships in the Bill of Rights competition, directed by the Center for Civic Education and funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education. They are trying to repeat as national champions.
Jason Bingham, a 16-year-old Arcadia High School student, is facing expulsion after he used a pipe as a weapon during an on-campus fight with a fellow student.
Arcadia High School's advanced placement government class will enter the "We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution" Constitutional law competition in Sacramento, with the winning team to go the the national finals in late April. The same coach, Ron Morris, led a team to the national title in 1993.
About 40 Arcadia High School students showed up outside City Hall at 3:15 to demonstrate against the city's 50 year old curfew, which subjects those under 18 to a misdemeanor citation if they loiter in public after 10 PM.
Arcadia High School opened the school year with an added 800 9th grade students, bringing total enrollment to 3050. 50% of the students are new to the school.
Thirty-seven portable classrooms-or nearly half the campus - are being used to house students at Arcadia High School while the school undergoes and $8.5 million renovation.
Roughly 70 students took part in the school district's first-ever Diversity Summit designed to let students talk openly about racial tensions at the high school.
Many Arcadia High School students are unhappy with the quality of the photos in the 1998 AHS yearbook, taking away some of the thunder from the school's first interactive CD-ROM yearbook.