Saratoga High School occurs as high school in Saratoga, California, USA, part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. A school is jointly accredited per California Department of Education and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Student enrollment averages as much as 1450.

Saratoga High is locally known for its rigorous academician program. 98% of graduates go on to college or technical school. 18% of the class of 2003 were semifinalists or even commended students in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Around 2003, a school's California State Academic Performance Stock (API) score is 911, a leading score among wholly comprehensive public schools in the State of California. Its long period athletic challenger is Los Gatos High School and its academic rivals come Lynbrook High School, Gunn High School and Monta Vista High School.

Within early 2004, the comprehensive cheating scandal was found. A matter received national news coverage ascribable how else deeply a handful of students included cheated, utilizing hardware to steal teachers' countersign & vary their grades. When merely 6 students were exposed in a scandal, the school has since been subjected to near completely veto click on its competitory atmosphere.

The projected Performing Arts & Lecture Center, the community facility, was recently constructed on the campus. A center was funded per operate of the Saratoga High School Foundation, which receives donations from either local businesses, parents & others. It was originally scheduled to open within early-2004, but budget & construction delays pushed a completion date back to August, 2005.

Saratoga High (& from time to time Saratoga itself) is for instance known as "The Bubble" by students, referable a perception that a school is isolated from either the problems of the outside globe (crime, impoverishment, etc.). To reflect this, a student-dog site SaratogaHigh.com utilizes the image of a detergent bubble when its logotype.

Notable alumni
Steven Spielberg - Spielberg has said that a school was the "worst experience" of his life & "hell on Earth", & he claimed to own had anti-Semitism there in the period of his month there (1964-1965). [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.29.97/spielberg-9722.html] All the same, despite this he did graduate & receive his sheepskin from either Saratoga High School.

Activities

A Saratoga High School Marching Band is an 180 member band high-pressure growing month fallowing season. A Marching Band wharehouses at a top at about each competition it attend. It keep close at h& laid among a Twenty Right Marching Elastic around California, competing using such elastic when Logan and Clovis West. Survive month the Marching B& set Third fallowing First place Logan and 2d place Clovis West, merely a mere Zero.I points out of Clovis West. A Saratoga Marching Band is attending there number 1 WBA Championships this November a 19th within Long Beach Community College. Keep an eye retired for the Marching Band performing there indicate "The Wind and the Lion". It laid Sixth away from Heptad schools in October 15, 2005.

Principals
Kevin Skelly (1997-2004) Bill Richter (2004-2005) Harry Bettencourt (2005) Jeff Anderson (2005-