Chaminade College Preparatory is a private Catholic preparatory school with two campuses in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Named after Society of Mary founder Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, Chaminade College Preparatory consists of a middle school (encompassing grades 6-8) located in Chatsworth and a high school (encompassing grades 9-12) located in West Hills. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It is a member of the approved Secondary Schools of the University of California.
Chaminade College Preparatory was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in 1998.
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History
Originally called Chaminade High School for Boys, Chaminade College Preparatory was founded in 1952 on the former site of the Pacific Military Academy in West Los Angeles by members of the Marianist Province of the Pacific, who were seeking to expand their educational mission into Southern California. The school became nationally famous for the celebrity students who attended the school or came to its dances. The school's mascot name, the Eagles, can be traced to a tower at the school that featured an imposing Army Eagle emblem in tile, with the beak pointed toward the arrows as in wartime. The high school moved to its current location in West Hills (then part of Canoga Park) in 1961 after the brick buildings of the original campus were deemed unsound. A junior high school serving grades 7-9 was formed in 1967 when the former St. John's Military Academy in Chatsworth was leased by the school, expanding Chaminade's educational program from four to six years. A seventh year was added in 1989 with the addition of a 6th grade class to the junior high school; the ninth grade was moved to the high school campus that same year to accommodate the addition of the sixth grade to the junior high school, which would then become the middle school.
The school became co-educational in 1972, with the first female graduates in the Class of 1974. Chaminade's two campuses served as the primary locations for the 1976 film The Pom Pom Girls.
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Academics
Grading The school year is divided into two semesters and classes meet every other day for 87 minutes. Chaminade issues three progress grade reports per semester; however, only semester grades appear on the student's permanent record at the end of each semester, in January and in June. It uses a 4.0 grading scale as follows: A = 90-100, B = 80-89, C = 70-79, D = 60-69, and F = 0-59.
Advanced Placement & HonorsThere are a total of 23 Advanced Placement and 18 Honors courses offered. In order to maintain a balanced course load, students are not allowed to take more than 8 year-long AP courses: 1 in 10th grade, 3 in 11th grade and 4 in 12th grade. In 2014, 473 Chaminade students took 911 AP examinations. Of the total exams taken 17% were a perfect score of 5, 22% were a score of 4, and 24% were a score of 3. With a score of 3 or higher, students may earn credit at many colleges and universities, it is also considered a passing score.
Athletic Achievements
In 1997, the Chaminade Varsity girls' soccer team won its first of four consecutive CIF Championships.
In 1998, the boys' basketball team won its first of two consecutive CIF Championships.
In 2006, The Girls' Varsity Softball Team won its first of two consecutive CIF Championships
In 2006, The Varsity Lacrosse team won its first CIF Championship.
In 2010, The Boys' Golf team won CIF.
In 2013, The Girls' soccer team won the CIF Southern Section Division I
In 2013, a Chaminade Equestrian rode into 2nd place at Interscholastic Equestrian League
In 2013, the Boys' Varsity Football team won the CIF Championship, CIF Regional Championship and CIF State Championship.
In 2014, the Boys' Varsity Basketball team won the CIF state championship.3rd State Crown this season.
In 2014, the Boys' Varsity Fencing team won the California State High School Fencing Championships.
In 2014, the Chaminade Wrestling team won 4 medals at the Mission League Finals. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place.
In 2015, the Girls' Basketball team won the CIF Southern Section Open Division championship.
In 2015, the Men's Combined Fencing Team won the State Championships.
Mock Trial
In the fall of 2007, the Middle School Mock Trial team competed for the first time in the Constitutional Rights Foundation for Los Angeles County and finished 2nd.
In the fall of 2008, the Middle School Mock Trial team won the Los Angeles County Competition.
In the fall of 2010, the Middle School Mock Trial team won the Los Angeles County Competition.
In the fall of 2011, the Middle School Mock Trial team finished second in the Los Angeles County Competition
In the fall of 2012, the Middle School Mock Trial team won the Los Angeles County Competition.
In the fall of 2013, the Middle School Mock Trial team won the Los Angeles County Competition.
In the fall of 2016, the Middle School Mock Trial team won the Los Angeles County Competition.
In the fall of 2015, the High School Mock Trial Team won the Constitutional Rights Foundation Mock Trial competition for Los Angeles County. In the spring of 2016, that team was a semi-finalist at the California State Competition, ultimately finishing 7th.
In the fall of 2016, the High School Mock Trial Team defended their Los Angeles County title by winning Los Angeles County again. In the spring of 2017, the team again reached the semi-finals of the California State Competition, ultimately placing 4th.
Sports offered
Fall
- Boys' Cross Country
- Girls' Cross Country
- Football
- Girls' Golf
- Girls' Tennis
- Girls' Field Hockey
- Girls' Volleyball
Winter
- Boys' Basketball
- Girls' Basketball
- Boys' Soccer
- Girls' Soccer
- Wrestling
Spring
- Baseball
- Boys Golf
- Boys Lacrosse
- Girls' Lacrosse
- Girls' Softball
- Boys' Tennis
- Boys' and Girls' (Coed) Track and Field
- Boys' and Girls' Swimming
- Boys' Volleyball
Summer
- Fitness Program
Multi-season
- Cheerleading
- Coed Equestrian
- Fencing
- Color Guard / Eagle Regiment
- Dance
Clubs offered
For sports offered, see above section.
- Ambassadors
- Aerial Team
- Armenian Cultural Studies Club
- American Red Cross
- Asian Cultural Studies
- ATLAS Environmental Club
- Band (Marching, Jazz, and Concert)
- Black Cultural Studies
- Blue Crew
- Caring Hand for Children
- Color/Winter Guard
- Improvanade (Comedy Sportz)
- Computer Programming Club
- Chaminade Historical Society
- Chaminade Model United Nations
- Chaminade Music Collective
- CSF (California Scholarship Federation)
- Dance Team
- Diversity Team & JDT (Junior Diversity Team)
- Drama (Chaminade Players)
- Eagle Business
- Eagle Engineering (Robotics)
- Film Club
- HALT (Hunger Awareness)
- Harmony Chorus
- Healing Hands
- High Sierra (Hiking)
- International Culinary Club (ICC)
- International Cultures Club
- JAM (Joy through Art & Music)
- JSA (Junior Statesmen of America)
- Key Club International
- L.I.F.E. Team
- Link Crew
- Lord's Chords
- Material Girls (Quilting Club)
- Mathletes
- Mock Trial
- My Name, My Story
- National Art Honor Society (NAHS)
- National Honor Society (NHS)
- Operation Smile
- PB&J (Peace, Beauty, and Justice Club)
- Photography Club
- Reach for the Starts
- Reading Rainbow Book Club
- Red Cross Club
- Rocket Research Club
- Science Club
- Speech & Debate Society
- Sport's Medicine
- STRUT (Staying TRU Together)
- Talon Newspaper
- T.E.M.A Teens for Emergency Medical Aid
- Team M-I-S-T
- Water Project
- Writers Block
- W.W.F. (World Wildlife Club)
- Yearbook
- Young Artist Alliance
Notable alumni
- John Longenecker (1965) - cinematographer and Academy Award winner
- David Paich (1972) - keyboardist (Toto, Boz Scaggs) and composer / lyricist ("Rosanna", "Africa", "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle")
- Joseph Rohde (1973) - Disney executive, lead designer of Disney's Animal Kingdom
- Laura Frankos Turtledove (1977) - author
- Linda Hogan nee Claridge (1977) - reality TV star, ex-wife of wrestler Hulk Hogan
- Mary Elizabeth McDonough (1970s) - actress (The Waltons, The New Adventures of Old Christine)
- Ron Insana (1979) - financial journalist / analyst (CNBC and syndicated)
- Shelley Lubben (1986) - Pornographic actress and activist
- Tracey Gold (1987) - actor
- Dean Ween (1987) - Lead singer of Ween
- Missy Gold (1988) - actor
- Sydney Penny (1989) - actor
- Paige Hemmis (1990) - actor
- Melissa Francis (1991) - CNBC reporter
- Marc Merrill (1998) - President of Riot Games
- Beverley Mitchell (1999) - actor
- Dave Keuning (1999) - founding member of The Killers
- Brett Erlich (2000) - co-host of Current TV's InfoMania
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas (2000) - actor
- David Gallagher (2003) - actor
- Anna Webber (2004) - Photographer
- Chris Turner (2005) - football quarterback
- Dan Runzler (2003) - Major League Baseball Pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
- Logan Paulsen (2005) - Tight end for the Washington Redskins
- Danielle Zymkowitz (2007) - softball player for the Chicago Bandits
- Kevin Pillar (2007) - Major League Baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays
- Brittany Cervantes (2008) - Softball player for the Chicago Bandits
- Ryan Griffin (2008) - for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Brad Kaaya (2014) - Detroit Lions quarterback
- Laura Marano (2014) - Actress and star of Austin and Ally
- Blake Rutherford (2016) - First baseman and outfielder in the New York Yankees organization
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