Tustin High School

Tustin High School
Address
Map
1171 El Camino Real

Tustin
,
CA
92780-4660

United States
Coordinates33°44′14″N 117°49′07″W / 33.73726°N 117.818509°W / 33.73726; -117.818509
Information
Former nameTustin Union High School
School typePublic high school
Established1921 (1921)
StatusOpen
School districtTustin Unified
NCES District ID0640150[1]
Local authorityTUSD Board of Education
SuperintendentMark Johnson
School codeCA-3073643-3037553[2]
CEEB code053570
NCES School ID064015006647[2]
PrincipalHeather Bojorquez
Teaching staff73.54[2]
Grades9–12
GenderCoeducational
Enrollment1,820[2] (2023–2024)
Student to teacher ratio24.75[2]
Campus size29 acres (12 ha)
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)  White   Black
  Red
SloganA History of Excellence – A Future of Promise
Athletics conferenceEmpire League
MascotTommy the Tiller
NicknameTillers
RivalFoothill High School
USNWR ranking3,054
PublicationTiller News Today
YearbookTustin Audion
Websitewww.tustin.k12.ca.us/tustin-high

Tustin High School is a public high school in Tustin, California, United States. It is part of the Tustin Unified School District. It was established in 1921 as the Tustin Union High School.[3]

History

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Tustin High School, circa 1925
The Tustin Union High School pool, circa 1956

Founded in 1921, Tustin High School was originally meant to serve five elementary districts: Tustin, Laguna Beach, El Toro, Trabuco Canyon, and San Joaquin.[4] Their mascot, the "Tiller", was inspired by the agribusinesses that originally surrounded the school.[3]

In 1972, the Tustin Union High School District merged with Tustin Elementary School District to create the Tustin Unified School District.[5]

In 2015, Tustin was recognized as a California Gold Ribbon School for its academics, school environment, and learning center.

Curriculum

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Tustin High School's academic programs include many AP courses, honors courses, and STEM courses, alongside high school college-prep courses.[6]

STEM

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The Tustin High School Technology & Engineering Academy ("T-Tech"), is a four-year program focused on STEM fields, as guided by PLTW (Project Lead the Way).[7] Tustin started the academy in 2010. The class of 2015 was its first "complete" class.

Athletics

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The Tillers currently compete in the Empire League of the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS), a part of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). The athletics programs have accumulated 131 league titles and 11 CIF-SS Championships as of 2015. League teams include:

Seasons

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Tustin High School fields 26 teams in 16 different sports.

Fall:

  • Cheer
  • Cross country (men's/women's)
  • Football
  • Golf (women's)
  • Tennis (women's)
  • Volleyball (women's)
  • Water polo (men's)
Tustin High Sports Pavilion - interior

Winter:

Tustin Union High School - 1926 Baseball team

Spring:

  • Baseball
  • Golf (men's)
  • Lacrosse (men's/women's)
  • Softball
  • Swimming (men's/women's)
  • Tennis (men's)
  • Track and field (men's/women's)
  • Volleyball (men's)

Football

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Northrup Field at Tustin High School
Tustin Union High School's 1924 football team
Tustin High School basketball are CIF-SS Division 3AAA champions

In 2008, Tustin High School and Dillard high school had six players in the NFL, which was the most in the United States at the time.[8] These players were Sam Baker (Atlanta), Beau Bell (American football) (Cleveland), Chris Chester (Baltimore), DeShaun Foster (San Francisco), Matt McCoy (Tampa Bay), and Frostee Rucker (Cincinnati).[9] The totals were based on the 1,693-man 2008 NFL Kickoff Weekend rosters (September 4, 7–8).

Since 1996, Tustin has won 10 league titles and has gone to 10 CIF semi-finals and four finals appearances (1997, 2008, 2010, 2011).

On December 10, 2011, Tustin defeated the El Toro Chargers in the CIF-SS Southwest Division championship game at Anaheim Stadium, their first CIF Championship since 1948.[10]

Since the school's rivalry started with Foothill High School in 1966, Tustin trails with a record of 23-29-1.

As part of the National Football League Super Bowl High School Honor Roll Program, Tustin High was awarded a Golden Football for its impact on Super Bowl history. The program recognizes each high school, with alumni participating or playing in a Super Bowl. DeShaun Foster, a running back for THS from 1994 to 1998, participated in Super Bowl XXXVIII with the Carolina Panthers in 2004. In 2013, Kim Robinson, an English teacher at Tustin High, published For Underdogs Only, detailing the life of long-time football coach, Myron Miller.

Men's basketball

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The Tiller men's basketball team is the reigning Empire League champions (2015), with a league record of 10–0. They have won the league title in three of the past four years (2012, 2013, and 2015). During the 2012–13 season, the team set a school record for season wins with 31 (31-3 record). That same season, the Tillers defeated Royal High School (California) in the Division 3AAA finals, with their final ranking being 27th in California and 167th in the nation. The following season (2014), after being raised to Division 2A, the team made it to the semi-finals, only to be defeated by Calabasas High School 56–49. For the 2014–2015 season, again being raised to Division 1A, the team pushed far into the postseason, reaching the semi-finals again, but being defeated by Village Christian Schools (the eventual champions) 58–44. The team has also qualified for the state playoffs twice, in the 2012–2013 season, when they made it to the second round (D. III), and the 2013–2014 season, losing in the first round (D. II).

School championships

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League championships[11] O.C. / SoCal / CIF-SS championships[11] State championships[11]
Baseball 1971, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2002 1938, 1990*, 1993
Basketball (men's) 1961, 1962, 1968, 1981, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2012,

2013, 2015

1937, 1941, 1981*, 1991, 1995*, 2013 1991
Basketball (women's) 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2015 1992*
Cross country (men's) 1960, 1961, 1966, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002 1964*, 1983, 1984, 1990*, 1996 1983, 1996*
Cross country (women's) 1981, 1984, 1983, 1990, 1991, 1996
Football 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1949, 1950,

1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

1948, 1990*, 1991*, 1997*, 2008*, 2010*, 2011
Golf (men's) 2001
Golf (women's)
Gymnastics** 1985*
Lacrosse (men's)
Lacrosse (women's)
Soccer (men's) 2019, 2020
Soccer (women's)
Softball 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2002
Swimming (men's) 1981, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 1932
Swimming (women's) 1975, 1976, 2000, 2001, 2002
Tennis (men's)
Tennis (women's)
Track and field (men's) 1940, 1941, 1944, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1995, 1996, 1997,

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

1997, 2001
Track and field (women's) 1985
Volleyball (men's) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2014,

2015, 2018

1995, 1998*
Volleyball (women's) 1994
Water polo (men's) 1999, 2001, 2002, 2011 1982
Water polo (women's) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
Wrestling 1970, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1989

**No longer a sport offered
*Finalist / runner-up

Campus

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Tustin High School is located on 29 acres (12 ha) of land in central Tustin.

It is the oldest school in the district. The original layout of the school included a neoclassical building with a 1,000-seat auditorium, an outdoor Greek theatre, a domestic science department, a mechanical and manual training department, an athletic field, and a gymnasium (opened in 1924). In 1927, the school added a new wing containing a large gymnasium and swimming pool.[citation needed]

The football stadium was constructed in the mid-1940s. The stadium and field were later named Northrup Field after Orville Northrup, who taught woodshop and physical education, and served as Principal of Tustin Union High School from 1941 to 1962.[11]

The original building was judged unsafe in case of an earthquake and demolished in June 1966. The old building was replaced[when?] with a new building.[citation needed]

In June 2008, the Tustin School Board approved a master plan that would guide the possible renovations of Tustin High School or the construction of a new campus.[12] The plan would include a new administration building, a 2-story science centre, a sports pavilion, and a two-story performing arts theatre and classroom building. The estimated cost of the renovation was approximately $150 million.

The sports pavilion was finished in 2012, costing $22 million. It seats 2,500 students and faculty within 29,000 square feet of space. Amenities include ticket windows, concession stands, foyer, dance room, trophy cases, men's and women's team rooms equipped with smart boards, two professionally sized scoreboards, and a drop-down display screen. The new facility houses four-sided bleachers and can be formatted as three basketball or volleyball practice courts (width-wise), a college-sized basketball court, or a main volleyball court (length-wise).

In December 2012, reconstruction at Northrup Stadium and the swimming complex began. The updated stadium includes a synthetic field, nine-lane synthetic track, concessions building, a 1,000-seat visitor bleacher, and a 1,000-seat home bleacher. The new $1.7 million swimming complex includes an Olympic-sized pool, new scoreboard, bleachers, and renovated locker rooms.

In February 2016, Tustin High broke ground on a new humanities building, housing English and language courses. The project is scheduled to be finished for the 2016–2017 school year.

The current campus consists of 22 single-story buildings, a two-story science building, and 17 portable classrooms. The campus includes two baseball fields, two softball fields, a discus field, and two gymnasiums. It also houses the District football field, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, two soccer fields, six tennis courts, and a synthetic field.[13]

January 21 Incident

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On January 21, 2023, two students engaged in a fight, one of the students injuring a student with a knife. The school implemented a temporary shelter-in-place protocol. The injured student was sent to a local hospital for additional medical attention.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

Notable alumni

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Athletics

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Film

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Musicians

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Miscellaneous

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References

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  3. ^ a b The Tustin Area Historical Society – Tustin High School
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  7. ^ "About". Tustin High School Academy of Technology and Engineering. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
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  23. ^ Milorad Čavić
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  25. ^ DeShaun Foster
  26. ^ Evelyn Furtsch Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
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  29. ^ Mark Grace
  30. ^ Shawn Green
  31. ^ Matt McCoy Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ "Rick Partridge Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com". Archived from the original on 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
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  36. ^ "Jim Steffen Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com". Archived from the original on 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
  37. ^ Richard Umphrey
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  42. ^ Rachel Kimsey bio
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  45. ^ "David C. Leestma". Archived from the original on 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
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