Granite Hills High School (Porterville, California)

Granite Hills High School, established in 1999, is the one of the eleven high schools in Porterville, Tulare County, California. Jacob Bowker is the principal. A previous principal was Apolinar Marroquin.

Granite Hills High School
Location
1701 E Putnam Ave., Porterville, CA 93257
Coordinates36.0684°N 118.9786°W / 36.0684; -118.9786
Information
School districtPorterville Unified School District
PrincipalJacob Bowker
Color(s)Cardinal and silver    [1]
NicknameGrizzlies[2]

Its online newspaper, the Grizzly Gazette, was a top million finalist in the National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Competition in the 2005–06 school year and were winners the following two years.----

The Granite Hills Academic Decathlon team won the Tulare County Academic Decathlon Regional Championship for the 6th consecutive year.

The school's girls soccer team forfeited a game in 2022 because of the other team included a transgender athlete.[3][4]

The school offers an "Academy of Law Justice and Ethics" program.[5] In 2022, students from the school's Academy of Law Justice and Ethics investigated a simulated murder scene[6]

In 2018, a student stabbed himself.[7]

References
  1. "Granite Hills (Porterville, CA) High School Sports - Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, and more". Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. "Welcome! – Boys Basketball – Granite Hills High School". Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. Romo, Vanessa (2022-11-21). "Team forfeits girls' soccer game over transgender athlete". KMPH. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  4. Greenstein, Henry. "Porterville-Granite Hills forfeits girls soccer game over eligibility of Mira Monte transgender athlete". The Bakersfield Californian. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  5. Johnson II, Jermaine (2020-11-18). "Bedrock of future criminal justice jobs built on Granite Hills campus". The Sun-Gazette Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  6. Avila, Esther (May 13, 2022). "CSI Granite: Students investigate mock murder scene". Porterville Recorder. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  7. Cederlof, Calley (2018-08-16). "Porterville student stabs himself, high school placed on lockdown". Visalia Times-Delta. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
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