Mount Carmel High School, San Diego

at , San Diego , 92129 United States

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2. Outdoors
3. High School
4. Public School

Description

Mt. Carmel High School (MCHS), a California Distinguished High School in 2005, is located in Rancho Peñasquitos, a community of San Diego, California, United States. The school belongs to the Poway Unified School District and its mascot is the Sundevil. The current principal is Greg Magno, who replaced Dawn Kastner.Mt. Carmel High School is both a California Distinguished School Award winner(1985, 1999, 2005) and a National Blue Ribbon School(1989, 2000). The school's main rival is Westview High School, although prior to the opening of Westview, its main rival was Poway High School.HistoryMt. Carmel High School was built in 1974, with its first fall semester classes being held at the neighboring Black Mountain Middle School while the rest of construction finished. In 1999, the movie Bring It On filmed on the campus, with the locker room, weight room and football scoreboard making it into the film. In 2010, Mt. Carmel became the second school in the San Diego Section of the California Interscholastic Federation(CIF) to win 100 CIFs.Mt. Carmel or Mount Carmel?There has been controversy over how the school's official name is spelled. One of the school's nicknames is "The Mount", seen in a sign just beyond the campus' main entrance that reads, "Welcome to The Mount". "The Mount" is also seen on the Boys Basketball team's home jerseys. However, every other program in the school, athletic and academic, wears "Mt. Carmel", and the school's official recognized name in CIF competition, the Poway Unified School District as well as the National Blue Ribbon School program, is "Mt. Carmel High School".

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Mount Carmel High School, San Diego is San Diego based place and this enity listed in Outdoors category. 92129.