Calabasas High School is a four-year high school in Calabasas,

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, United States. Calabasas High School, which serves Calabasas and portions of

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, is one of three high schools in the Las Virgenes Unified School District (along with

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and Indian Hills High School in

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). As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,824 students and 65.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 27.9:1. There were 103 students (5.6% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 26 (1.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

Calabasas High School was established in 1975 as the second high school in the

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. During the 2006–07 school year Calabasas High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the

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, the highest award the Department of Education gives. The school plays its football games at Keith Ritchie Field, an open-air stadium located in

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and soccer teams. It was also formerly the home field for the

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club, the

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. The Calabasas High School Theater Program performs in the Performing Arts Education Center. The center opened in 2013. The $18 million building was funded through Measure G, which passed in 2006. The Performing Arts Education Center was designed by architect John Sergio Fisher. The mainstage theater seats 680 people. There is a black box theater in the facility that seats 100 people. The Performing Arts Education Center has won numerous design awards, including a 2012 AIA / SFV Award for Design Excellence and a 2011 Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award. In 2013 students chose a same-sex couple for homecoming queen and queen.

Notable alumni

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, Jose Pasillas and formerly

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* Jensen Karp (born 1979), author, rapper, television writer *

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(born 2001), actor *

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LA Galaxy. Accessed February 21, 2017. "The defender was born in Burbank, California, and attended Calabasas High School."

References

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