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.
Starting in 1993-1994, Arcadia High School will change its grading policy that awards an extra grade point to students taking honors classes. The new system will give no more weight to honors courses than to regular courses.
For the second time in three years, science students from Arcadia High School took the top prize Saturday in the county regional competition of the National Science Bowl.
A team from Arcadia High School was the regional winner in the 1996 National Science Bowl. They will join other regional winners in the finals of the competition in late April in Florida.
Despite pressure from Native American representatives to switch mascots in the interest of cultural sensitivity, the Apache will remain as Arcadia High School's mascot, student and school leaders decided.
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.
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.
Facing expulsion from Arcadia High School for striking another student with a metal pipe, 16-year old Jason Bingham testified at a school district hearing that he used the weapon only to defend himself. The three-member panel sent its recommendation to the school board, which will make a decision in the matter.
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.