Armijo High School
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Armijo High School is a public secondary school located in Fairfield
, California
. The school serves about 2500 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.
In 1891 Armijo began as a small one-room school house with 30 students, and grew over the past 100 years to its present size of 2,600 students. It has served its alumni through world wars, depression, and many good years, encouraging its students to take what they had learned and give to the community and the country.
The school started with a single classroom over Crystal Elementary School, with a mere thirty students. After that, it was moved to a simple wooden frame building where it remained for about fifteen years. During that time the student population ranged from about twenty to forty students, very small in comparison to today's size. The school was then moved to the large white, stone building that is now used as courthouse. There it stayed for about fifty years, and this is where it grew the most. Within the last thirty years we moved to the buildings that Armijo is presently situated in at 824 Washington Street.
Though the buildings that housed Armijo have changed, the name and the purpose of Armijo has always remained. Since 1891, many people have passed through its halls; people that went on to be famous, and people that are memorable in their own right. In the beginning, alumni were kept track of after they graduated. There were always pages in the first yearbooks stating what its alumni were doing at that present day. Armijo has survived a lot of damage; earthquakes, fires, and just trying to cope with time. Even in changing crime is a constant though across from the jail.
Fairfield, California
Fairfield is a city located in Solano County in Northern California, USA. It is generally considered the midpoint between the cities of San Francisco and Sacramento, approximately from the city center of both cities, approximately from the city center of Oakland, less than from Napa Valley, 18...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. The school serves about 2500 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.
In 1891 Armijo began as a small one-room school house with 30 students, and grew over the past 100 years to its present size of 2,600 students. It has served its alumni through world wars, depression, and many good years, encouraging its students to take what they had learned and give to the community and the country.
The school started with a single classroom over Crystal Elementary School, with a mere thirty students. After that, it was moved to a simple wooden frame building where it remained for about fifteen years. During that time the student population ranged from about twenty to forty students, very small in comparison to today's size. The school was then moved to the large white, stone building that is now used as courthouse. There it stayed for about fifty years, and this is where it grew the most. Within the last thirty years we moved to the buildings that Armijo is presently situated in at 824 Washington Street.
Though the buildings that housed Armijo have changed, the name and the purpose of Armijo has always remained. Since 1891, many people have passed through its halls; people that went on to be famous, and people that are memorable in their own right. In the beginning, alumni were kept track of after they graduated. There were always pages in the first yearbooks stating what its alumni were doing at that present day. Armijo has survived a lot of damage; earthquakes, fires, and just trying to cope with time. Even in changing crime is a constant though across from the jail.
Notable alumni
- Robert E. "Rufus" BowenRufus BowenRobert Edward "Rufus" Bowen was an internationally known professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, who specialized in dynamical systems theory...
(Class of 1964), Mathematician - Johnny CollaJohnny CollaJohnny Colla is one of the founding members of the American rock band, Huey Lewis and the News. He is the guitarist and saxophonist. He has been heavily involved in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for more than 25 years.-Brief history:The first bands that Colla was involved with were the...
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Saxophonist/Guitarist - Huck FlenerHuck FlenerGregory Alan "Huck" Flener is an American former Major League Baseball player. A pitcher, Flener played for the Toronto Blue Jays in , , and . When making his Major League debut for the Blue Jays in 1993, Flener wore Shawn Green's jersey as his jersey was unavailable at the time...
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(Class of 1964), Presidential appointee - George MartinGeorge Martin (American football)George Dwight Martin is a former American football defensive end who played his entire career in the National Football League for the New York Giants...
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, actor - Joseph Fossum-Perez, actor
- Darren Emory, technological guru and visual designer
- Phaedra Ellis-LamkinsPhaedra Ellis-LamkinsPhaedra Ellis-Lamkins is an American sustainability advocate and the CEO of the anti-poverty organization Green For All."From 2003 to 2009, Ellis-Lamkins was the Executive Officer of the South Bay AFL–CIO Labor Council, an organized labor federation representing more than 100 unions and more than...
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