Armijo High School

Armijo High School
Location
824 Washington Street Fairfield, California 94533 United States
Coordinates	38°15′04″N 122°02′17″W / 38.251°N 122.038°WCoordinates: 38°15′04″N 122°02′17″W / 38.251°N 122.038°W
Information
Type	Public
Motto	All students can grow and achieve. It is everyone's responsibility to see that the opportunity is present.
Established	1891[1] [2]
School district	Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
Principal	Eric Tretten[3]
Faculty	110.7 (on FTE basis)[4]
Grades	9 to 12
Enrollment	2472[4] (2005–2006)
Student to teacher ratio	26.3[4]
Color(s)	Purple and Gold[5]
Athletics conference	CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I[6]
Mascot	The Indian
Nickname	AHS, Armijo High, Armijo
Team name	Armijo Indians[5]
Accreditation	Western Association of Schools and Colleges[7] International Baccalaureate[8]
Publication	The Armijo Signal
Yearbook	La Mezcla
Former name	Armijo Union High School[2]
Website	ww4.fsusd.k12.ca.us/schools/armijo/

Armijo High School is a public secondary school located in Fairfield, California. It is the oldest of the three high schools in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School district, the other two being Fairfield High School and Angelo Rodriguez High School. It is named after the Armijo family, who purchased one of the original six land grants in Solano County awarded to General Mariano Vallejo. The school serves about 2600 students in grades 9 to 12, as one of the three main Secondary Schools in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.

The school started in 1891 with 30 students in a single classroom located in the Crystal Elementary School building. In 1893, separate wooden building was built for use as the high school. In 1915, the school moved to a large stone building on Union Avenue in downtown Fairfield that is now used as the Solano County courthouse. There it stayed for nearly 50 years, with construction completed in 1964 on a newer facility located on Washington Street, roughly two blocks from the Union Avenue location.

Notable alumni

• Robert E. "Rufus" Bowen (Class of 1964), Mathematician
• Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis and the News Saxophonist/Guitarist^[9]
• Huck Flener, Major League Baseball player^[10][11]
• Robert F. Hale (Class of 1964), Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)
• George Martin (Class of 1971), National Football League player^[12]
• Pat Morita, actor^[13]
• Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, an American sustainability advocate and the CEO of the anti-poverty organization Green For All.

References

1. History of Armijo High School. Armijo High School. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
2. Goerke-Shrode, Sabine (2005). Fairfield. Arcadia Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 0-7385-2888-9.
3. "Armijo High School Administrators". Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
4. "Armijo High". National Center for Education Statistics. Archived from the original on 4 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
5. "Armijo Indians". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
6. "SJS League Alignment 2006-2010". Sac-Joaquin Section. Archived from the original on 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
7. "Directory of Schools 2007-2008" (PDF). Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
8. "Armijo High School". International Baccalaureate Organization. Retrieved 2008-02-25. IB school code: 001317...since July 2001
9. Richard Freedman (September 6, 2002). "Colla sings like a demon on "Lucky Devil"". Vallejo Times-Herald (reprint at johnnycolla.com). Archived from the original on 5 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
10. "Huck Flener Statistics". The Baseball Cube dick. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
11. Mike Lefkow (July 26, 1996). "CARTER'S BLAST TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW". Contra Costa Times. pp. D01.
12. "George Martin Statistics". databaseFootball.com. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
13. "Sacramento Area Native Pat Morita Dies". The Sacramento Union. November 25, 2005. Retrieved 2008-02-25.