Diamond Ranch High School
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Diamond Ranch High School (or DRHS) is a high school (secondary school) operated by the Pomona Unified School District (PUSD) in California, located on the hills where Diamond Bar and Phillips Ranch (a master-planned community located in the southwestern portion of the city limits of Pomona) meet. In 2003, Diamond Ranch was titled a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education. The school received popularity from its appearances in movies such as The Cell, Orange County and Serenity. The school's unique architectural design was recognized in the book Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School by Jeffrey Kipnis and Todd Gannon.
The construction of Diamond Ranch High School was originally controversial because of the inequities in the rest of the school district. Diamond Ranch's Academic Performance Index scores are substantially higher than at the other high schools in the PUSD. [link] The construction of Diamond Ranch permitted the district to stop busing students to Ganesha High School, in the western part of Pomona. As a compromise, the district allows any other interested student within the district to transfer to Diamond Ranch on a space available basis, and operates a lottery that reserves spaces for Garey High School students to go to Diamond Ranch.
The cost of Diamond Ranch High School was $47.2 million, but the cost of the land it sits on was only a dollar [link]
Diamond Ranch's first graduating class was in 2001.
References
- Jeffrey Kipnis and Todd Gannon. Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School The Monacelli Press; 2001 ISBN 1-58093-079-4
External links
- [Pomona Unified School District: Diamond Ranch High School]
- [Panther Pride]
- [Diamond Ranch High School's] Movie Appearances
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