Amador Valley High School
Amador Valley High School was named a California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a National Blue Ribbon School. It is one of three high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, along with Foothill High School and Village High School. Since 2020, Amador has offered its 2,700 students 25 Advanced Placement courses, 23 varsity sports, and vocational training.
About Amador Valley High School in brief
Amador Valley High School was named a California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a National Blue Ribbon School. Founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School, the school graduated its first class in 1923. It is one of three high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, along with Foothill High School and Village High School. Since 2020, Amador has offered its 2,700 students 25 Advanced Placement courses, 23 varsity sports, a program to study local aquatic wildlife, and vocational training. The school is the launch point for the annual Pleasanton Hometown Holidays Celebration Parade and the annual Fall Festival Parade, a part of the Alameda County Fair since the 1940s. Amador’s location allows it to be the launching point for parades and to host the site of the Amador Theater, Pleasanton’s principal performing arts facility for more than 80 years. In national competitions such as We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the Amadon team has ranked in the top-10 teams 15 times, including winning the 1995 national title. In the U.S., the school’s robotics team, AVBotz, is recognized nationally as the best performing high-school team in the autonomous underwater vehicle competition hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. In 1978, the AVJUHSD challenged the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 13, which placed a cap on county real estate taxes, eliminating 7 billion of the USD 11 billion in property tax revenue collected each year.
A recent Congressional report found that Proposition 13 would not result in any major spending cuts in any state-funded programs. In order to receive Federal aid, local governments and most school districts in California have to make “drastic cutbacks” in state funding. As of 2020, the district contained two comprehensive high schools, one continuation high school, three middle schools, nine elementary schools, one preschool, and an adult education program. The district contains two comprehensive schools, three continuation high schools, and one middle school, as well as a continuation high School and a continuation middle school. The schools are bordered on the east and southeast by Santa Rita Road, a Union Pacific railroad track on which the Altamont Corridor Express runs, and Arroyo Valle. To the north are several businesses and residential districts lie on the western border of the district, and to the north is the city of Pleasanton, where Amador is located. The Pleasanton High School mascot is the Charger, a short-haired, red-headed, black-and-white checkered football player with a pointy-haired haircut. The Amador High School band has been in the marching band since the 1950s. The band has performed at national venues and conferences, including Carnegie Hall and the Midwest Clinic, and at the fair since the 1970s. It was named for its location in the amador Valley. The valley’s namesake was a wealthy Californio rancher, Don José María Amador.
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