Granite Hills High School | |
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Location | |
1701 E Putnam Ave., Porterville, CA 93257 | |
Coordinates | 36°04′06″N 118°58′43″W / 36.0684°N 118.9786°W |
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School district | Porterville Unified School District |
Principal | Jacob Bowker |
Color(s) | Cardinal and silver [2] |
Nickname | Grizzlies[1] |
Granite Hills High School, established in 1999, is one of the eleven high schools in Porterville, Tulare County, California. Jacob Bowker is the principal. A previous principal was Apolinar Marroquin.
Its online newspaper, the Grizzly Gazette, was a top million finalist in the National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Competition in the 2005–06 school year and were winners the following two years.----
The Granite Hills Academic Decathlon team won the Tulare County Academic Decathlon Regional Championship for the 6th consecutive year.
The school's girls soccer team forfeited a game in 2022 because of the other team included a transgender athlete.[3][4]
The school offers an "Academy of Law Justice and Ethics" program.[5] In 2022, students from the school's Academy of Law Justice and Ethics investigated a simulated murder scene[6]
In 2018, a student stabbed himself.[7]