Big Bear High School is a high school in Big Bear City, California

Big Bear City, California

Big Bear City is an unincorporated, census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California immediately east of Big Bear Lake. The population was 12,304 at the 2010 census, up from 5,779 at the 2000 census...

. It is the only conventional high school in the Bear Valley Unified School District

Bear Valley Unified School District

Bear Valley Unified School District is a school district in San Bernardino County, California supporting the towns of the Big Bear area such as Boulder Bay, Fawnskin, Big Bear City, Big Bear Lake, Surgarloaf, etc...

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2011 yearbook controversy

A week after students received their 2011 yearbooks, several of them noticed a picture of a school dance contained a possible sex act between a 17-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. While the two students were not the focus of the picture, school and district officials were advised that the picture could be deemed child pornography

Child pornography

Child pornography refers to images or films and, in some cases, writings depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child...

 under both federal and California law. Students were ordered to return their yearbooks so a replacement picture could be added. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department serves San Bernardino County, California, which is geographically the largest county in the lower 48 states. SBSD provides law enforcement services to the unincorporated areas of the county and contract law enforcement services to 14 of the county's...

, anyone who doesn't return their yearbooks for re-editing could be arrested for possessing child pornography.

Sports and Athletics

Big Bear High School offers programs such as Football, Baseball, Basketball (Boys and Girls), Volleyball, Softball, Wrestling, Golf, Tennis, Cross Country, Soccer, and etc. Big Bear High is associated with the CIF

CIF

CIF is an abbreviation that may stand for:* California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in California* Caltech Intermediate Form, geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles * Canada India Foundation, Canadian lobbying...

 program. Big Bear High is recognized more in football with their star atheltes. When they took the C.I.F championships for football in 1992 and 2006. The school also has had C.I.F championships for Baseball in 1993, and Softball in 1988.
The school also has few notable alumni such as Ryan Hall

Ryan Hall

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 who is an Olympic cross-crountry runner and came in 10th place in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Jordan Romero

Jordan Romero

Jordan David Romero is an American mountain climber who, on May 22, 2010, became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. He was 13 years 10 months 10 days old when he reached the summit. Romero was accompanied by his father Paul Romero, his father's girlfriend Karen Lundgren, and three...

, who is the youngest person ever to climb Everest the tallest mountain in the world. He is still attending the school, and this year he will be a sophmore.