Coronado Unified School District ( CUSD ) is a public school district based in Coronado in San Diego County, California . It includes one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools as well as several specialized and unconventional schools. It is governed by a five-member elected board.
21-450: CUSD includes Coronado High School , Coronado Middle School, Silver Strand Elementary, and Village Elementary. Coronado School of the Arts , a nationally recognized public school-within-a-school (conservatory), resides on the high school campus. Crown Preschool, a fee-based school, operates as an inclusion model for some of our special needs children. The CUSD boundaries include almost all of
42-692: A representative from the California Department of Education , representatives from all bodies recognized as Allied Organizations by the CIF, the Council President, the President-Elect, and the immediate past President. Each representative is elected to a term of two years. The Council meets three times per year. The following groups are considered Allied Organization by CIF: The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)
63-560: Is divided into three conferences which in turn are divided into leagues. The Southern Section is the largest by both membership and geography, covering just under one-third of the state's total area and almost half of the population base. The Southern section includes private schools in the LAUSD service area, whether inside or outside the city of Los Angeles, and the Central Coast and North Coast sections also include private schools in
84-523: Is managed by CUSD which coordinates student and community activities and rents out aquatic services to swimmers and water polo teams from around the world. On June 19, 2021, the high school basketball team competed against Orange Glen High School in a regional championship game. Following the game, at least two Coronado High School students hurled tortillas at members of their predominantly Latino opponents. The District's board unanimously voted to fire high school head basketball coach J. D. Laaperi following
105-837: Is part of the Arizona Interscholastic Association . Coleville High School , Needles High School , North Tahoe High School , South Tahoe High School and Truckee High School are part of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association . As early as 1891, schools around the San Francisco Bay Area began competing against each other in football organized by the Amateur Academic Athletic Association. Other boys sports were added starting in 1894, organized by
126-449: Is the governing body for high school sports in the U.S. state of California . CIF membership includes both public and private high schools. Unlike most other state organizations, it does not have single, statewide championships for all sports; instead, for some sports, the CIF's 10 Sections each have their own championships. Six schools near the state border are members of adjacent state's associations. San Pasqual Valley High School
147-685: The United States waterpolo team for the 2008 Olympics . In 1996, Adrian Taufaasau, a Coronado High quarterback, was tackled in a game and suffered what later was termed blunt force trauma to his head and neck, dying two days later. In 2007, Tennis Coach and Teacher Robbin Adair coached the Islanders to his 1,000th win. On June 20, 2021, the boys' basketball team forfeited the CIF Division 4A Regional Basketball Championship after members of
168-523: The 2016-17 season, the California Interscholastic Federation featured 800,364 participants, with 58% boys and 42% girls. The sports with most boys are: The sports with most girls are: CIF offers various awards to its participants: The state is broken up into ten administrative sections. These sections are: Each section except for San Francisco and Oakland is further subdivided into leagues. The Northern Section
189-613: The Academic Athletic League. While teams represented the schools by name, there was no affiliation with the school administration. The CIF was founded in Los Angeles in 1914 by a group of area school principals . It was founded in order to standardize rules and team structures between schools; it was also intended to prevent abuses such as "school shopping" by athletes and teams fielding players over high school age. Other school principals voluntarily entered into
210-527: The City of Coronado and small sections of the city limits of San Diego. There are approximately 4500 students of K-12 age living in Coronado; 3100 currently attend the Coronado public schools. There are several preschools, some home schools, and two private Christian schools. The boundary includes Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and Naval Air Station North Island . The Brian Bent Memorial Aquatic Complex (BBMAC)
231-540: The cities of San Francisco and Oakland respectively. The three "City Sections" are operated by and were historically limited to the corresponding public school systems. With the advent of charter schools in California, all three City Sections include both traditional public schools and charter schools operating within the historic boundaries of the respective public school systems. The San Francisco Section now includes one private school as well. The sections also serve as
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#1732797567448252-568: The first time. Coronado Sports, with the exception of Water Polo, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball, Golf, Basketball, Cross Country, Baseball, and Softball are played at Niedermeyer Field which was completed in 2000. The Field, which hosts Football, Boys and Girls Soccer, and Boys and Girls Lacrosse was upgraded to field turf in 2005. The campus includes an aquatics complex named the Brian Bent Memorial Aquatics Complex., Three Coronado High School graduates played on
273-467: The football championship. Individual CIF sections also conduct championships in other sports, including: In sports where a school has separate boys' and girls' teams, girls are not allowed on boys' teams, and boys are not allowed on girls' teams. (In sports such as baseball that do not have girls' teams, girls are allowed to play; on the other hand, in sports such as softball that do not have boys' teams, in most cases boys are not allowed to play.) In
294-494: The incident. A 40-year-old alumni of the school who had no children of his own on the team or at the school claimed that he distributed the tortillas to team members and cheerleaders because tortilla throwing was a tradition at UC Santa Barbara where he and Laaperi attended at the same time. The UCSB Alumni Association has said tortilla throwing has had to be banned because of game interruptions and "associations with racist ideology." This followed an effort in 2020 to ensure that
315-766: The incident. The board issued a formal apology on August 19. Coronado High School (California) Coronado High School ( CHS ) is a public high school in Coronado, California . It is the only high school in the Coronado Unified School District . The Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA) is located on the campus of CHS. The California Department of Education gave it a California Distinguished School award in 2011 and two Model Continuation High School awards in 2014 and 2018. The boundary includes Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and Naval Air Station North Island . Coronado High School
336-498: The program, and by 1917, the organization was established statewide. In 2005, CIF began requiring that all student athletes sign a pledge not to take any steroids or face suspension or expulsion. This action was the first of its kind from a statewide high school athletics association in the United States. CIF holds state and regional championships in: CIF also hosts a State Cheerleading Championship in conjunction with
357-471: The qualifying entities for regional and state competitions, and may organize championships in sports not contested statewide, such as badminton , baseball , field hockey , gymnastics , lacrosse , skiing and snowboarding , soccer , softball , and water polo . The organization's supreme governing body is the Federated Council. This council consists of one representative from each section,
378-631: The school districts curriculum not be updated to include a focus on racial justice. On July 6, the school board voted to "initiate litigation" thereby "enabling the Superintendent to enter the appeal process within the 15 day window," claiming their independent investigation "found no evidence warranting forfeiture of the title." 32°41′30.38″N 117°10′43.13″W / 32.6917722°N 117.1786472°W / 32.6917722; -117.1786472 California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation ( CIF )
399-663: The team threw tortillas at their predominantly Latino opponents from Orange Glen High School during a victory celebration after the championship game. The move, which had previously been condemned by the League of United Latin American Citizens , prompted an investigation by the San Diego County’s Human Relations Commission. The Coronado Unified School District apologized for "racism and classism" and fired head coach J.D. Laaperi over
420-498: Was established in 1913. In 1939, the original building was knocked down and rebuilt as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's Works Progress Administration . It was renovated again in 1961 and 2006. In the 1970's, a group of students led by former Spanish teacher Lou Villar developed what became a $ 100-million dollar worldwide drug smuggling operation. In 2008, the school was named a National Blue Ribbon School . CHS
441-598: Was the only school in San Diego County to win the award. In 2016, CHS was ranked 433rd nationally and 70th amongst California high schools in the USNews list of "Best High Schools", out of more than 27,000 public high schools. It was awarded the New American High Schools designation in 1998. It offers Advanced Placement Classes. In 2023, the football team added girls to the roster for
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