Granite Hills High School
Location
1701 E Putnam Ave., Porterville, CA 93257
Coordinates36°04′06″N 118°58′43″W / 36.0684°N 118.9786°W / 36.0684; -118.9786
Information
School districtPorterville Unified School District
PrincipalJacob Bowker
Color(s)Cardinal and silver    [1]
NicknameGrizzlies[2]

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

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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