Santa Ana High School

Santa Ana High School
Santa Ana High School
Address
	520 W. Walnut St.; Santa Ana, California; United States
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Once a Saint, Always A Saint!
Established	1889
School district	Santa Ana Unified School District
Principal	Dr. Elizabeth Enloe
Teaching staff	135.18 (on an FTE basis)
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	3,135 (2022–23)
Student to teacher ratio	23.19
Color(s)	Red, White, and Columbia Blue
Mascot	Sammy & Sally Saint
Website	Santa Ana HS

Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States.^[2] The school was established in 1889.^[3]

Notable alumni

Daniel Antúnez, soccer player
Barry Asher, professional bowler
Tony Baxter former senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, the Indiana Jones Adventure, Splash Mountain, and Journey Into Imagination.
Billy Bean (1964-2024), played major league baseball from 1987 through 1995. He tied a major league record with 4 hits in his first major league game.^[4]
Tony Bellamy, Guitarist, member of first Native American rock band Redbone, had number one hit in the 1970s "Come and Get Your Love"
Beverly Bivens, singer with the 1960s band We Five
Eddie Bravo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete
John Brinkerhoff, USMA '50, Associate Director for National Preparedness FEMA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs DoD
Gerald P. Carr, astronaut
The Chantays, surf band, its original members: Bob Spickard, Brian Carman (co-writers of "Pipeline"), Bob Welch, Warren Waters and Rob Marshall
Placida Gardner Chesley, bacteriologist
Clifford "Gavvy" Cravath, six time National League baseball home run champion in the 1910s
Jeff Cravath, college football coach
Josephine Cruickshank, tennis player
Isaac Curtis, football player, Cal Berkeley and NFL Cincinnati Bengals
Don Davis, NFL player
Clancy Edwards, sprinter
Derek Fleming, featured Soul Train Dancer 1980-1993
Delfín Jaranilla, Filipino magistrate
James Kanno, first mayor of Fountain Valley, California
Diane Keaton, actress
Dana and Ginger Lamb, American travel writers
Greg Louganis, Olympic Gold Medal Diver, LGBT Activist, called "The greatest American diver in Olympic history."^{[by whom?]}^{[citation needed]}
Larry Lutz, NFL player
Patrick McMorris, NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins^[5]
Bill Medley, singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo
Gilbert Melendez, 2-time California State All-American wrestler;^[6] professional Mixed Martial Artist; former WEC and Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, current UFC Lightweight contender^[7]
Evylena Nunn Miller, painter
Donn Moomaw, football player, minister^[8]
Jim Musick, NFL player, Orange County Sheriff from 1947 to 1975
Hal Pangle (1912–1968), NFL running back^[9]
Frostee Rucker, NFL player
Robert A. Schuller, televangelist
Chuck Smith, class of 1945, founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa^[10]
Milt Smith (1919–2010), football player, UCLA Bruins and Philadelphia Eagles^[11]
William Cameron Townsend, prominent twentieth-century American Christian missionary and founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL International)
Jose Vasquez, soccer player
Marvalee Hendricks Wake, evolutionary biologist
John Ward, football player