Kingsburg High School

Kingsburg High School
Kingsburg High School
Address
	1900 18th Avenue, Kingsburg, California
Information
School type	Public
Established	1908
Principal	Ryan Phelan
Teaching staff	54.29 (FTE)
Grades	9 - 12
Enrollment	1,101 (2023–2024)
Student to teacher ratio	20.28
Color(s)	Green and gold
Mascot	Viking
Newspaper	The Viking Voice
Website	www.khsvikings.com

Kingsburg High School (KHS) is a public high school in Kingsburg, California, United States. The school is part of the Kingsburg Joint Union High School District. Its mascot is the Viking and its school colors are green and gold. As of 2018, the enrollment was 1,071 students.^[2]

Academic Achievements

Kingsburg High School's academic achievements include:

A graduation rate of 99.6% in 2019.
72.2% of students qualified as college/career ready in 2019
72% of students met or exceeded standard in ELA (#8 in Fresno/Tulare Counties)
46.9% of students met or exceeded standard in MATH (#5 in Fresno/Tulare Counties)

Resources

The resources offered to students by Kingsburg High school include a college and career center dedicated to helping students plan for life after leaving high school, a laptop program that provides each student with a functioning computer to be used for school related activities and assignments, and two different versions of many of the online resources/documents, one in Spanish and one in English, to accommodate to the school's number of Spanish speaking students and parents.^[3]^[4]

Annual Events

The events put on annually by Kingsburg High School include:^[5]

Rivalry week
Homecoming week
Dances: Homecoming, Formal, Back to school dance, Sadie's, and Prom
Rotary top 40 dinner
FFA Tri-tip dinner

Athletics

Kingsburg High School competes in the Central Section of the California Interscholastic Federation as a member of the Tri-County Athletic Conference.^[6]

Fall

Football
Volleyball
Cross country
Girls' golf
Boys' water polo
Girls' water polo
Girls' tennis
Viking Marching Band

Winter

Boys' basketball
Girls' basketball
Boys' soccer
Girls' soccer
Wrestling

Spring

Baseball
Softball
Swimming & diving
Track & field
Boys' golf
Boys' tennis

Notable alumni

Tyler Bray, current NFL player
Monte Clark, former NFL player and head coach
Jimmy Johnson, former NFL player
Rafer Johnson, Olympic decathlon gold medalist
Goran Lingmerth, former NFL player
Melissa Price, women's pole vault pioneer
Andrew Vorhees, current NFL player
Jake Woods, former Major League Baseball player

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Kingsburg High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
^ "California School Dashboard (CA Dept of Education)". www.caschooldashboard.org. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
^ "TECHNOLOGY". kingsburghigh.com. August 31, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
^ http://www.kingsburghigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-2019-KHS-Student-Parent-Laptop-Handbook-rev2.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Kingsburg High School". Kingsburg High School. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
^ "Sports". Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2009.

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[NCES-1] "Kingsburg High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 22, 2024.

[caschooldashboard.org-2] "California School Dashboard (CA Dept of Education)". www.caschooldashboard.org. Retrieved April 24, 2019.

[3] "TECHNOLOGY". kingsburghigh.com. August 31, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2019.

[4] ttp://www.kingsburghigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-2019-KHS-Student-Parent-Laptop-Handbook-rev2.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[5] "Kingsburg High School". Kingsburg High School. Retrieved April 24, 2019.

[6] "Sports". Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2009.

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