Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, California)

History

Fremont High School was originally named West Side Union High School, the first school opened in the West Side Union High School District. In 1923, it opened in rooms of the Sunnyvale Grammar School as the only high school in the Sunnyvale–Cupertino (West Valley) area, and then moved to a temporary building after purchase of the school site in 1923. The school building was designed in 1925 by noted California school architect W. H. Weeks, after the necessary bond referendum passed on the third attempt. On March 27, 1925, the board of trustees unanimously voted to change the name of the school and district to Fremont Union High School.

In 1942, during the Second World War, Fremont became a temporary recruitment training ground and around half of the class of 1942 joined the military.

In 1969, a late-night fire occurred in the bell tower of the main building; the 1970 freshman class went to Monta Vista High School in Cupertino while rebuilding was done.

On July 1, 1996, after much controversy, the Fremont Union School Board did away with the original Indian mascot, replacing it with the current Firebirds mascot.

Famous YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober uploaded a video about the true scale of the Solar System in 2016, with scaled objects laid on starting on Fremont's field and going beyond.

Campus

Fremont High School is located at the intersection of Fremont Avenue and Sunnyvale–Saratoga Road. The Fremont Union High School District's offices are also located on the school campus.

The original buildings are built in a Mission Revival architectural style, designed by W. H. Weeks in 1925. Three classroom buildings that were added in the 1950s on the Fremont Avenue side were demolished and replaced with new instructional and administrative space also in mission style, creating a quadrangle.

Demographics

In the 2014–2015 school year, Fremont had a total enrollment of 1,964 students. Asian students comprised 20.7% of the school's student population while Filipino & Pacific Islander students made up 12.1%. Black students made up 3.1% of the population. Hispanic students were the largest group, representing 44% of the student population with White students the second largest at 26.9% of the student population. Also, there were a small number of American Indian & Alaska Native students, around 0.1% of the student population.

Additionally, 21.1% of the students are English language learners and 42.3% are socio-economically disadvantaged.

Athletics

They had 3 state champions that year and 2 of them went on to compete internationally. They still are one of the top teams in the Central Coast Section. In 2003–2004 the Fremont varsity cheerleaders took 1st place in every regional competition in which they competed. They then went on to win two United Spirit Association National Championships in Anaheim. They won the title for Small Coed Show Cheer and Coed Partner Stunt.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Fremont High School include:

• Tully Banta-Cain — New England Patriots football player, 2003–10
• Carl Ekern — Los Angeles Rams football player 1976–1988
• Andrew Fire — professor at Stanford University and 2006 Nobel Prize co-winner in Medicine or Physiology
• Bill Green, former U.S. and NCAA record holder in Track and Field, 5th place in the hammer throw at the 1984 Olympic Games
• Donna Hanover — newscaster, actress, ex-wife of Rudy Giuliani
• Teri Hatcher — Golden Globe-winning actress
• Garry Jestadt — MLB San Diego Padres infielder
• Imran Khan — Bollywood actor
• Steve Kloves — Oscar-nominated screenwriter
• Francie Larrieu-Smith — Olympic distance runner, five-time Olympian, member of National Track and Field Hall of Fame
• Brian MacLeod — recording artist and songwriter
• Irene Miracle — Golden Globe-winning actress
• Borislav Novachkov — two-time CIF wrestling state champion, NCAA wrestling Division I runner-up, 2016 wrestling Olympian
• Joe Prunty — NBA Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach
• Jason Simontacchi — Washington Nationals baseball player
• Troy Tulowitzki — Toronto Blue Jays shortstop
• Peter Ueberroth — Olympic organizer, 1984 Time Man of the Year, commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Bruce Wilhelm — World's Strongest Man and Olympian in weightlifting

References

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