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Acalanes High School

Field	Value
name	Acalanes High School
established	1940
schooltype	Public high school
district	Acalanes Union High School District
grades	9-12
principal	Eric Shawn
teaching_staff	63.19 (FTE)
enrollment	1,250 (2023–2024)
us_nces_school_id	060165000032
ratio	19.78
conference	California Interscholastic Federation, North Coast Section; Diablo Foothill Athletic League
colors	Royal blue and white

nickname	Dons
streetaddress	1200 Pleasant Hill Road
city	Lafayette
state	California
zipcode	94549
country	United States
coordinates
newspaper	Blueprint
yearbook	AKLAN
website	School website
footnotes

Acalanes High School is a public secondary school located in Lafayette, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, within Contra Costa County. Acalanes was the first of four high schools established in the Acalanes Union High School District. It was built in 1940 on what was then a tomato field, using federal government funds with labor provided by the Works Project Administration, the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency introduced by the Roosevelt administration. Lafayette businessman M.H. Stanley suggested the name "Acalanes", the name of Rancho Acalanes, the Mexican grant from which all land title within the City of Lafayette derives. Rancho Acalanes itself seems to have been named by its Hispanic settlers after the local Native American Bay Miwok tribe called Saklan (Saclan), referred to by Spanish missionaries as Saclanes. The first graduating class of 1941 selected the school colors of blue and white. For the school sports mascot, they chose the Don (a Spanish honorary title).

Academics

Acalanes offers a diverse course selection and a number of AP and honors courses. Among the electives offered are sports medicine, digital design, auto mechanics, studio arts from beginning to AP, video production, journalism, drama, photography, Mandarin (Chinese), Spanish, French, chorus, band (four groups), and orchestra.

Acalanes High won the regional competition of the National Science Bowl at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[[File:Acalanes Quad.jpg|thumb|The front quad]]

Facilities

In 1939, Acalanes was the first school designed by Ernest Kump and became the prototype for what came to be called the "California School", consisting of a complex of rectangular single-story modern buildings in parallel rows separated by gardens, with no hallways. Its openness to the outdoors and ease of expansion were revolutionary at the time, and the format was widely copied.

The campus includes a track, several fields (an astroturf field, a grass field, and a baseball field), a pool, tennis courts, two gyms, weight room, two quads, and a performing arts center. Measure E bonds passed in 2008 provided for the complete renovation of the aquatic facilities, which was completed in the summer of 2011.

Notable alumni

Espen Baardsen - professional soccer goalkeeper
Nicki Bluhm - musician
Alan Chin - artist
Philip M. Condit - former chairman and CEO of the Boeing Company
Donna de Varona - Olympian
Gloria Duffy - former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction
Scott Dyleski - convicted of murdering his neighbor, Pamela Vitale, the wife of attorney Daniel Horowitz
Craig Federighi - Sr. Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple
Don Ferrarese- Former MLB player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals)
Will Forte - cast member of Saturday Night Live
Justin Fox (born 1964) - financial journalist, commentator, and writer
George Prifold Harrison - gold medalist at the 1960 Olympic Games
Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been - members of the rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Hans-Peter Martin - member of the European Parliament, foreign exchange student
Joe Millette - former MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies)
George Lewis Mount - member of the 1976 US Olympic cycling team
Ann Nelson - American particle physicist
Nelson Piquet - Brazilian driver, three-time winner of Formula One World Drivers' Championship
Jewel Roemer - USA Water Polo Women's Senior National Team player
Dave Stanton - motorcycle racer, former AFM, WERA National Endurance, AMA Pro, and Formula USA champion
Bret Taylor - chairman of OpenAI, former co-CEO of Salesforce, former chairman of Twitter, Inc.
Cameron Tuttle - bestselling author of the Bad Girl's Guide series
Ross Valory - bassist for the rock band Journey
Norm Van Brocklin - former NFL quarterback
Evan Wallach - judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Kathryn Werdegar - California Supreme Court Justice

References

"Acalanes High". National Center for Education Statistics.
National Center for Education Statistics. "School Detail for Acalanes High".
"ACALANES BLUEPRINT".
"Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Acalanes High". ed.gov.
Beeler, Madison S. 1955. ''Saclan.'' ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 21:201-209.
Beeler, Madison S. 1959. ''Saclan Once More.'' ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 25:67-68.
"Office of Science".
Bernard, Lance V.. (2007). "Architecture and Regional Identity in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1870–1970". Edwin Mellen.
"FIA Hall of Fame - Nelson Piquet profile".
"Jewel Roemer - Women's Senior National Team - USA Water Polo".
Thomas, Owen. (November 30, 2022). "Salesforce's Marc Benioff is betting $28 billion on Bret Taylor. So who is he?". San Francisco Chronicle.

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