Mission Viejo High School

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Mission Viejo High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Mission Viejo, California, United States, as part of the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. The school has served the area since 1966. Students within its attendance boundaries live in western Mission Viejo, southwest Lake Forest, Trabuco Canyon, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Laguna Hills. Its mascot is Pablo the Diablo and its colors are scarlet and gold. 230 credits are required to graduate. It is the home to one of the only agricultural farms on a high school campus in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District.

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Mission Viejo High School
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25025 Chrisanta Drive

92691

United States
Coordinates33°35′49″N 117°40′12″W
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TypePublic high school
Established1966 (1966)
School districtSaddleback Valley Unified School District
PrincipalTricia Osborne
Teaching staff71.76 (FTE)[1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,628 (2023–2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio22.69[1]
Color(s)  Scarlet
  Gold
Athletics conferenceCIF-SS; South Coast League
MascotPablo the Diablo
Team nameDiablos
Websitewww.svusd.org/schools/high-schools/mission-viejo
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Welcome screen to Mission Viejo High School

In the 2022–2023 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,646 students and 75.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 21.8. 40.9% of students were eligible for free or discounted lunch.[1][2]

Academics

International Baccalaureate

Mission Viejo has been an International Baccalaureate (IB) school since July 1985. This program, taught to 80 students, is for academically talented and highly motivated students sponsored and administered by the IB Organization. The students who meet the IB requirements are eligible for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. This school received approximately 80 diplomas in the 2015–2016 school year.[3]

Awards and recognition

Mission Viejo High School has been awarded the Blue Ribbon School and Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education on three separate occasions, in 1988–89, 1994–96[4] and 2001–02,[5][6] the highest award an American school can receive.[7][8]

Mission Viejo High School has been recognized six times as a California Distinguished School, in 1988, 1994, 2001, 2009, 2013, and 2024.[9][10][11]

Performing arts

Marching band

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The Mission Viejo High School Marching Band and Color Guard at the 2008 Calgary Stampede Parade in Alberta, Canada

The school's marching band is part of the Western Band Association. They have competed in the 5A division every year until 2016, in which they began competing in 4A and won their division at the WBA Class Championships.[12]

  • The drumline won High Percussion at WBA State Championships each year from 1997 to 2003, excluding 2000.[13]

Choir

The school offers four different choir classes: Concert Choir, Diablo Chorus, Treble Choir and the Chamber Singers.[14]

Notable alumni

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Name Class Description
Rudy Holmes1970National Football League defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons.
Mark O'Meara1975Golfer, winner of the Masters Tournament and the British Open in 1998. Member of World Golf Hall of Fame.[15]
Joe DeRenzo1976Musician and bandleader.[16]
Michael Lopez-Alegria1976Astronaut, veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.[17]
Matt Sorum1976Drummer for The Cult, Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver.
Brian Goodell1977Olympic champion and former world record-holding freestyle swimmer. At the 1976 Olympic Games, he won gold medals in 400m and 1500m frees.[18]
Joel L Widzer1980Author, television journalist,[19] speaker.
Ralph Saenz1983Lead singer for glam metal band Steel Panther (as Michael Starr).
Rob Adams1988Actor, acting coach, owner of The Actors Workshop, football coach.
Julie Foudy1989Midfielder for U.S. women's national soccer team from 1987 through 2004. Won two Olympic gold medals and two World Cup championships.[20]
Troy Kopp1989Former Canadian Football League and Arena Football League quarterback.
Joe-Max Moore1989Professional soccer player.[21]
Preston Burpo1990Major League Soccer goalkeeper.
Megan McClung1990First female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during Iraq War.[22]
Scott Von der Ahe1993National Football League linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts.
Matt Keneley1995National Football League defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers.
Brianna Keilar1998CNN correspondent.[23]
Andreas Gustafsson1999Swedish race walker.
Collin Ashton2001National Football League linebacker who played for the San Diego Chargers.
Jordan Palmer2002National Football League quarterback who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Co-founder of RockLive.[24]
Jed Collins2004National Football League fullback who played for the Detroit Lions.
Drew Radovich2005National Football League offensive tackle who played for the Minnesota Vikings.
Nick Reed2005National Football League defensive end who played for the Minnesota Vikings.
Mark Sanchez2005Former National Football League quarterback.
Konrad Reuland2006Former National Football League tight end for the Jets and Ravens
Jeff Baca2008Former National Football League offensive tackle.
Donothan Bailey2010Former gymnast and member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team.
Tre Madden2011National Football League running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
Nick Dzubnar2011National Football League linebacker for the Chargers and Titans
Garrett Marino2013Canadian Football League defensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Chandler Hutchison2014NBA guard for the Chicago Bulls.
Noah Munck2014American actor, Gibby Gibson in Nickelodeon's iCarly
Patrick Sandoval2015MLB pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels.
Brenden Schooler2016National Football League safety for the New England Patriots
Tanner Bibee2017MLB pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians.
Jarrett Patterson2018National Football League center for the Houston Texans[25]
Joey Yellen2019College football quarterback for the Arizona State Sun Devils, Pittsburgh Panthers and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors[26]
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