Clayton Valley High School

Clayton Valley High School
Address
1101 Alberta Way Concord, California, Contra Costa County, 94521 United States
Information
Established	1958
School district	Mount Diablo Unified School District
Superintendent	Stephen Lawrence
Principal	Sue Brothers
Vice principal	Sharon Brockman
Vice principal	Adeyinka Fashokun
Vice principal	Rick Leach
Number of students	1847 (2007-08)
Color(s)	Red, White, and Blue
Mascot	Eagles
Accreditation(s)	WASC
Website	http://www.mdusd.k12.ca.us/claytonvalley/

Coordinates: 37°56′59″N 121°58′04″W / 37.94972°N 121.96778°W / 37.94972; -121.96778^[1]

Clayton Valley High School (CVHS) is a secondary school located in Concord, California. and just under two miles from Clayton. It is part of the Mount Diablo Unified School District. Most of the students live in Clayton and the nearby Concord neighborhoods with some coming from Pittsburg. It is the location of the local radio station 90.5 "The Edge" KVHS, which broadcasts mostly hard rock and heavy metal music. Its newspaper is The Talon, which is part of the High School National Ad Network. The current principal is Sue Brothers.

Leadership

The Leadership Advisor is Social Studies teacher Christine Reimer.

Arts

The ClaytonArts Academy, a smaller learning community within the school, boasts an excellent track record of academics and the arts. Students in the Academy learn through project-based curriculum and may specialize in such fields as drama, fine art, photography, and video production. The current coordinator is Jeff Hagerstrand.

The Academy, the band and choir programs, and the drama and art departments are working with the local fundraising group Clayton Theatre Quest to raise money to build a visual and performing arts center on the Clayton Valley High School campus. www.claytontheatrequest.org.

The Instrumental and Choral music department boasts successful performances, including awards for choir and band at the Heritage Festival in Seattle, for orchestra at the Fiesta-Val in Williamsburg, and for choir at the Heritage Festival in Boston. The Marching Band was the 1998 Western States Marching Band Circuit Champion in class A-90. The marching band has continued to earn regional recognition with wins at the Lincoln Review of Champions, Vintage Reserve Field Show, and the Lodi Grape Bowl Classic. Classes include Women's Ensemble, Concert Choir, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic and Concert Bands, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, and Marching Band.

The Talon, produced by the journalism class, only published two issues in 2010: One at the last day of the first semester, and one eight days before the end of the school year. Students that were aware of the existence of a school newspaper were surprised that the last newspaper was actually printed before summer vacation.

Engineering Academy

The Clayton Valley Engineering Academy, started in 2010, is another learning community within the school. The teachers of the engineering classes are Mr. Ouimet and Mr. Meyer. The classes are part of Project Lead the Way which is sponsored by Chevron

Brain Bowl

Clayton Valley has an annual academic contest, which is called Brain Bowl. Teams of four, composed of students, compete against each other. This year's student team winner was the Battle Popes.

Alumni

The CVHS Alumni Site. has links to AlumniClass, Classmates and Facebook. It has no data per se. The current owner of claytonvalleyhighschool.com deleted all of the pages for specific classes when he took over the domain in 2008.

CVHS Ugly Eagles Football

2008 the Varsity Ugly Eagles were 12-1. Made there way to Santa Rose to play against Cardinal Newman. They played a great game but lost 7-17.

2009 The Varsity Ugly Eagles were 8-4. They fought back with a vengeance to beat Concord High school 48-28 during first round of playoffs. They then went to lose the second round of playoffs in Santa Rosa Montgomery high school. It was a nail biting game. The game ended with the Uglies losing 11-21.

The Class of 1972 - Started the Ugly Eagles as a means of setting those on the football team apart from the rest of the school. This whole concept was started by our Freshman/JV football coaches Glen Schrimger & Bill Nelson who challeneged us all to keep our hair neatly trimmed above the eyes, above the ears and above our collars. Keep in mind this was @ 1969 - 1970 in the middle of the "Summer of Love" and the hippie movement. To be different back then wasn't out of the ordinary but the lengths (or lack of) we took it certain bucked the trend of the times!

References

1. ^ United States Geological Survey (19 January 1981). "GNIS Detail - Clayton Valley High School". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:221183. Retrieved 2010-01-01. 

External links

• Official website
• ClaytonArts Academy
• Public Service Academy