Los Gatos High School is located on Main Street in Los Gatos. Not pictured are the six towering palms which grace the front lawn.

Los Gatos High School (LGHS) is a high school in Los Gatos, California, a suburb of San Jose in Silicon Valley. Los Gatos High School was founded in 1888 and is part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. taken by User:Nohat in 1996. ... taken by User:Nohat in 1996. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales. ... High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Official website: http://www. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District operates two high schools in the greater San Jose, California, USA area: Note: Based on 2002-2003 school year data See also Los Gatos Union School District External links Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union School District Categories: Santa Clara County, California...

The school enrolls approximately 1600 students and employs about 70 teachers. In 2004, 94% of graduating seniors went on to attend college, including 64% to four-year colleges. Los Gatos High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and has regularly received six-year accreditations, the highest possible. The school has been recognized twice as a National School for Excellence. LGHS is also notable for its sports programs and exceptional athletes, making it unique among academically distinguished public schools in the area. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... Generally, accreditation is the process by which a facility becomes officially certified as providing services of a reasonably good quality, so that the public can trust in the quality of its services. ... The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. ...

The school is notable for its spacious extensive front lawn and neoclassical main building, which was designed by W. H. Weeks, a famous architect of schools of California. His Greek Revival style was famous in the 1920s and 1930s. Other buildings and various additions to the main building were built in the period between the dedication of the main building in 1925 and 1970. The school underwent no major construction from 1970 until 1998, when the school successfully passed a $79 million bond measure in the town of Los Gatos to renovate the aging buildings. Since then, several new buildings have been constructed, and most of the old buildings have been renovated. A typical lawn A lawn sprinkler A lawn is an area of land planted with grass and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at an even low height. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... William Henry Weeks (died 1936) was an early 20th century architect who designed many public buildings in California, including schools and many of the Carnegie libraries in Northern California. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Personal residence of Catherine the Great Greek Revival was a style of classical architecture which became fashionable in Europe in the 18th century, and in the United Kingdom and United States in the early 19th century. ... The 1920s were a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... In the United States, a municipal bond or muni is a bond issued by a state, city or other local government, or their agencies. ... In political science, the initiative (also known as popular or citizens initiative) provides a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or ordinance. ...

Due to the unusual joint cooperative nature of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District, Saratoga High School shares Los Gatos High School's Prentiss Brown Auditorium for performing arts and Helm Field for football games. Both are located on the grounds of Los Gatos High School but are available for equal use by both schools. Consequently, when the Los Gatos High School football team plays Saratoga, both are actually the home teams since they share the field. The title of home team is switched each year when the two schools play each other. The Los Gatos High School mascot is the wildcat. Although the wildcat is a very common school mascot, it is perhaps uniquely suited to Los Gatos High School, as los gatos is Spanish for the cats. Saratoga High School is a high school in Saratoga, California, USA, part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. ... The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... In team sports, a team representing a city or a region is to be that areas home team. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... Binomial name Felis silvestris Schreber, 1775 The Wild Cat (Felis silvestris) is a small predator native to Europe, the western part of Asia, and Africa. ...

Notable alumni

Notable alumni at Los Gatos High School include: An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ...

• Kari Byron is best known for her appearance on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters
• Michael Eugene Couchee, Major League Baseball player;
• Actress Olivia de Havilland, who played Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind;
• Joan Fontaine (sister of Olivia de Havilland);
• screenwriter Scott Frank, who wrote the screenplays to Get Shorty and Minority Report;
• 9/11 victims Mark Bingham and Todd Beamer.
• Members of the bands dredg and Trapt.

Olivia de Havilland spoke at the school's centennial commencement in 1988. Kari Byron on MythBusters Kari Elizabeth Byron, (born December 18th, 1974) is a San Francisco-based artist. ... Discovery Channel is a property of Discovery Communications primarily packaged as a network entertainment brand distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world. ... MythBusters is an American science television program on Discovery Channel starring Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, two special-effects experts who set out to test the validity of timeless myths and urban legends of popular culture. ... Michael Eugene Couchee, born December 4, 1957 in San Jose, California, is a Major League Baseball player. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award-winning Japanese-born American film actress. ... Melanie Hamilton-Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a Japanese-born British actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... European book cover Get Shorty is a novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard, first published in 1990, and a movie adaptation of the same name, released in 1995. ... Minority Report is a 2002 film by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton,Kathryn Morris, and Colin Farrell. ... The resulting explosion after the crash of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. ... Todd Beamer Cover to Lets Roll, by Lisa Beamer. ... dredg is a progressive alternative band from Los Gatos, California. ... Trapt is a Nu Metal band from Los Gatos, California, United States. ... See also Academic dress Categories: Education | Academia ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the media

The front exterior of the school was used on The Amanda Show starring Amanda Bynes. It was used in the show's soap opera spoof segment called "Moody's Point". The school was also used as a filming location for several scenes in the 1996 made-for-TV movie Lying Eyes. The school, its stadium and track, and nearby Santa Cruz Ave were also used for filming an episode of the 1986 TV Show "Starman"; drama students played the role of some extras. The Amanda Show was a live-action comedy-variety show on Nickelodeon. ... Amanda Laura Bynes (born April 3, 1986) is an American actress, comedienne and former show host on Nickelodeon. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Moodys Point was a recurring skit on The Amanda Show as a parody of soap operas aimed at teenagers, especially Dawsons Creek. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Starman can refer to a number of things: Starman is the name of a number of comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ...

Principals

• Doug Ramezane (2005–)
• Trudy McCullough (1998–2005)
• Ted Simonson (19??–1998)

External links

• Los Gatos High School official web site
• Los Gatos Weekly-Times article about the history of the school, including the front lawn
• SmartVoter page on 1998 Measure B

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