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Simi Valley, California Simi Valley (; Chumash: ''Shimiyi'') is a city in the valley of the same name in the southeast region of Ventura County, California, United States. Simi Valley is from Downtown Los Angeles, making it part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The ...

. The school is part of the

Simi Valley Unified School District Simi Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) is a school district in Ventura County, California. The district serves students from the city of Simi Valley, the census-designated place of Santa Susana, and other adjacent unincorporated areas. SVUS ...

and is located on the east side of the city.

History

Simi Valley High School was established in 1920 as the first high school in Simi Valley. The campus has undergone several configurations over the years to become the campus it is today. The current campus was built in three phases during the 1960s. Based on the physical concept of "schools-within-a-school," Simi Valley High School was constructed with three instructional quads, each having an administrative area. The original design also included one main administration building. Currently, the school is configured with five major instructional areas, a multipurpose building, a gym and dressing room facilities, a library, a counseling facility, an administration building, a new area of portable classrooms, a stadium and athletic fields, a new senior patio, and a band room with all different types of instruments.

Demographics

The demographic breakdown by race/ethnicity of the 2,107 students enrolled for the 2019–2020 school year was:

Academics

In the annual public high school rankings from '' U.S. News & World Report'', Simi Valley High School was ranked in 2021 as the 17th best high school in the Oxnard-Ventura metropolitan area, with an overall score of 67.65 out of 100. That makes it the 3rd best high school in the Simi Valley Unified School District, behind

Santa Susana High School Santa Susana High School is one of four public high schools located in the Simi Valley Unified School District in Simi Valley, California. Built in 1970, the school campus was originally designed as a junior high campus formerly known as Sequoia ...

and Royal High School.

Athletics

Simi Valley High School's athletic teams are nicknamed the Pioneers, and the school's mascot is Herman, or Hermie, the Pioneer, established around 1940. The school's colors are maroon and gold; originally, the colors were purple and silver but these were changed in the mid-1920s. The school is a charter member of the

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(CCL), a conference within the

CIF Southern Section The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section (CIF-SS) is the governing body for high school athletics in most of Southern California and is the largest of the ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF ...

(CIF-SS) that was established in 2014. SVHS competes in the CCL for all sports except football and in the Marmonte Football Association for football. Prior to 2014, the school was a long-time member of the Marmonte League. Simi Valley's primary rival is Royal High School on the west side of the city.

Notable alumni

Acting

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, actress, ''

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'', '' Divergent''

Music

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, singer,

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and

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; drummer, Scared Straight.

Politics

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Sports

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, head football coach,

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, Minor League Baseball player *

, coach for

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, Major League Baseball pitcher for

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Writing

David Farley David Farley (born September 25, 1971) is an American author and journalist. Farley is originally from Dubuque, Iowa, but spent his formative years in Simi Valley, California. He graduated from Simi Valley High School and received a bachelor's ...

, food and travel writer

References

External links

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Simi Valley Unified School District
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