Armijo High School is a
public secondary school
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located in
Fairfield,
California
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, United States. It is the oldest of the three high schools in the
Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, the other two being
Fairfield High School and
Angelo Rodriguez High School. It is named after the Armijo family, who purchased one of the original six land grants in Solano County awarded to General
Mariano Vallejo
Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio general, statesman, and public figure. He was born a subject of Spain, performed his military duties as an officer of the Republic of Mexico, and shaped the trans ...
. The school serves about 2600 students in grades 9 to 12 from the central part of Fairfield and
Suisun City
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.
The school started in 1891 with 30 students in a single classroom located in the Crystal Elementary School building. In 1893, a separate wooden building was built for use as the high school. In 1915, the school moved to a large stone building on Union Avenue in downtown Fairfield that is now used as the Solano County courthouse. It stayed there for nearly 50 years until construction was completed in 1964 on a newer facility located on Washington Street, roughly two blocks from the Union Avenue location. In 2019, the Fairfield-Suisun School District board voted unanimously to replace the "Armijo Indian" mascot. As of 2020, the school's mascot is "The Royals".
Notable alumni
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Robert E. "Rufus" Bowen (1964), Mathematician
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Johnny Colla
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(1967),
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Saxophonist/Guitarist
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Huck Flener
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Career
Flener attended Armijo High School (Fairfield, Ca ...
(1985),
Major League Baseball
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player
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Luis Grijalva (2017), professional runner representing
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; Olympian
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Robert F. Hale
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(1964), Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)
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George Martin
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(1971),
National Football League
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player
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Pat Morita
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(1947) Film actor who portrayed
Mr. Miyagi
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.
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Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins (1983), American
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advocate and
CEO
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of the
anti-poverty
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Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics clas ...
organization
Green For All.
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Doug Martin (1976),
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Minnesota Vikings
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References
Educational institutions established in 1891
High schools in Solano County, California
International Baccalaureate schools in California
Public high schools in California
Fairfield, California
1891 establishments in California
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