Moorpark High School

Moorpark High School
Location
4500 Tierra Rejada Rd. Moorpark, CA 93021
Information
Type	Public
Established	1919
Principal	Carrie Pentis
Enrollment	Approximately 2400
Color(s)	Green and Gold
Mascot	Musketeer
Information	[phone]
Website	http://mhs.mrpk.k12.ca.us/index.php

Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.^[1]

History

The current campus opened to students in the 1988-1989 school year. In its early years, it lacked a football field and an auditorium and contained only half of the classrooms it now has today.^{[citation needed]}

Moorpark High school has two chief feeder schools: Chaparral Middle School and Mesa Verde Middle School (Moorpark).

Activities and clubs

Moorpark has many different clubs and activities available to students.^[2] Some of those clubs include: Academic Decathlon (see below), ACT (Active Citizens of Today), American Red Cross Club, ARC Radio Club, ASB, Asian Culture Club, AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination), CSF, Catholic Service Club (CSC), Environmental Club, FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), FLAMA (Future Leaders of America Master Achievers), French Club, HSA (Health Science Academy), Jewish Culture Appreciation Club, Journalism, MBA (Moorpark Business Academy), MHS band and Color guard, MSP (Musical Show Production), MSA (Muslim Student Association), NHS (National Honor Society), Renaissance, Spanish Club, Teens for Humanity, YAC (Youth Action Committee), Y&G (Youth and Government)

Academic Decathlon

Moorpark's Academic Decathlon team has won the national competition four times (1999, 2003, 2008, and 2009)^[2] in addition to getting second place by a small margin during the 2005 season, as well as taking 3rd in the 2006 and 2007 California State competition. Also, since the Class of '94 squad won Moorpark's first county-level championship, Moorpark has dominated that competition. Indeed, since 1998, not including 2000, Moorpark has won all ten events at the County competition.^[2] In 2000 they advanced to the state competition as a wild card, having placed second behind Simi Valley at the County competition. They came in second at the state competition, also behind Simi Valley, this time by a margin of 21 points. In the 2007 State Super Quiz competition, Moorpark became the first team in Academic Decathlon history to score a perfect sixty points in the Oral Relay. A year later, the Moorpark team achieved the highest score ever reached in nationals.

In the 1999 competition Moorpark actually fielded two teams ("A" team, and "B" team.) The A team took first place in the Ventura County competition, and the B team, a close second. In an unprecedented situation, the scores of both teams should have qualified them for state competition, the A team with the highest score in the state, as well as the county, earning the Ventura county seat, and the B team with a score ranking them 8th in the state should have been eligible for a wild card position. However, it was decided by the California Academic Decathlon, that although their score was better than 42 of the teams competing at the state competition, including all but one of the wild cards, that it was unfair to allow two teams from one school to compete. This was not a rule delineated in the official rule book of the Decathlon, because it had never occurred to the board that a school would find not just 9 exceptional students, but in fact 18. The rule that each school is only allowed to send one team to the state competition was added the following year. The 2008 "B" team also won second in the county competition and would have qualified for a wild card position.

In 2008, Moorpark's Acadeca team won the state competition in Sacramento, California, with the highest score ever recorded. They went on to win nationals in Garden Grove, California, breaking their own record for the highest team score at any level of competition (they won over Wisconsin by a mere 23 points). Some of the most achieving members dined with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Future Business Leaders of America

Moorpark's chapter is a consistent champion in the regional competitions. Since 1991, Moorpark has consecutively won 20 sectional competitions; they belong to the largest section in California, Gold Coast. The Moorpark Chapter has close to 250 members as of 2011, and remains the largest club on campus.

Other activities

Prior to the extensive residential development that took place beginning in 1982, Moorpark was a league doormat in football. Back-to-back playoff appearances in 1984-85 helped right the program, ending a nation's worst 46-game overall losing streak. Carpinteria remained Moorpark's nemesis, a national-record 51 consecutive wins by the Warriors over the Musketeers, which finally ended in the 1997 CIF playoffs when Moorpark went 13-1 and captured its first lower-division CIF championship.

Moorpark's heralded class of 1986 also helped revive the school newspaper, The Blade, and its alumni group boasts several attorneys, corporate finance executives, marketing professionals and educators.

The 1988-1989 band and color guard were among the four area high school bands (which included Thousand Oaks High School, Simi Valley High School, and Royal High School) invited to attend and perform at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Athletics

Moorpark's baseball team has been coached by Scott Fullerton for 17 seasons. ^[3]

With rising enrollment, Moorpark athletics moved into the Marmonte League the year after beating Carpinteria, where it remains today. In 2005, Moorpark went to its first Division IV Championship game, losing to St. Bonaventure (Ventura) 27-7. A year later, Moorpark came back and lost in the first ever CIF North Division Championship to eventual state champion Canyon Country Cowboys, 24-22

Their track and field team won the Marmonte League championships in both 2004 and 2005 under the guidance and conditioning of coaches Case, Rohach, and Thomas (Thomas has left Moorpark High 2007). The girls track and field also won again in 2007.

The football team who are usually all students who are not very well respected by most and are know around for drug and alcohol took their first ever Marmonte League Championship in 2005, and made it all the way to the championship game, succumbing to Saint Bonaventure.

The 2008 boy's Volleyball team won its first game of the season.

A new multi-million dollar gym was added in 2005.

The girl's varsity soccer team won 2nd place in CIF in 2007/2008.

Affiliates

Moorpark High School has 2 affiliate schools. The first is the Community High School, a newer campus (commonly referred to as "C School") that educates students not on track (for lack of credits) to graduate by assigning less classes to help make up lost and/or a deficiency in credits required for graduation,but never do come back because they are commonly turned down by the high school when they are on track and are prepared by the great and caring teachers of the community high school. The second is The High School at Moorpark College, where students seeking to expand their education may opt to take college courses that fulfill both high school graduation requirement credits as well as earn college credit. Although not affiliated with the High School, some students elect to take the California High School Proficiency Exam or CHSPE, thereby graduating from high school, and take classes at Moorpark College for straight-up college credit.

Faculty

Category	Total # of Teachers[4]
Moorpark	69
District	374
County	6,571
State	307,864

Type of Credential	Teachers (State)	Teachers (MHS)
Full	307,864 (94.2%)	102 (93.6%)
University Intern	7,668 (2.5%)	4 (3.7%)
District Intern	2,690 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)
Pre-Intern	1,150 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)
Emergency	9,922 (3.2%)	5 (4.6%)
Waiver	1,298 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)

Footnotes

1. ^ Greatschools.com [1]. Accessed on 05 November, 2006.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Moorpark High School Website. Please see external links. Accessed on 05 November, 2006.
3. ^ www.musketeerbaseball.com
4. ^ California Department of Education website. CDE website. Accessed on 05 November, 2006.

External links

• Moorpark High School's Official Web Site
• Moorpark Unified School District