Sunny Hills High School

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Sunny Hills High School (SHHS) is a combined public and magnet school located in Fullerton, California, USA. Established in 1959, it is part of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District.

The campus, consisting mostly of single-story open plan buildings, is situated on 42 acres in western Fullerton; the quality of public schools in the area has contributed to its relative affluence.^[1] SHHS has been an International Baccalaureate World School since 1987, and hosts the largest IB program in California. It has been recognized twice as a California Distinguished School, in 1988 and 1994, and recognized as one of the top high schools in the United States in March 30, 1998, March 13, 2000, and June 2003 issues of Newsweek magazine.^[2] At 284 in the magazine's latest (2007) rankings of public high schools, Sunny Hills remains in the top 1 percent of schools in the country.^[3]

1 Enrollment
2 Sports
3 Notable alumni
4 Notoriety
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Enrollment

Enrollment: Using 2003 CBEDS data, Sunny Hills High School serves 2290 students--1139 (49.7%) males and 1151 (50.3%) females. Approximately 98 percent of the students come from within the FJUHS District. The ethnic population has remained fairly consistent over the last five years: 54.6% Asian, 23.5% White, 13.8% Hispanic, 2.3% African-American, and about 6% Native American, Filipino and Pacific Islander.

[edit] Sports

Sunny Hills' mascot is the Lancer.

Sunny Hills Football 1984 CIF Champions
Sunny Hills Football 1990 CIF Champions and Freeway League Champions.
Sunny Hills Football 1992 CIF Champions and Freeway League Champions.
Sunny Hills Football 1994 League Champions.
Sunny Hills Football 1996 Freeway League Champions.
Sunny Hills Football 1997 Freeway League Champions.
Sunny Hills Football 1998 Freeway League champions.
Sunny Hills Boys' Basketball 2002 League Champions.
Sunny Hills Boys' Basketball 2004 CIF Champions.
Until 1992, Sunny Hills Boys' Water Polo Freeway League Champions for 22 consecutive years.
Sunny Hills Boys' Soccer 1986 CIF Champions
Sunny Hills Girls' Soccer Freeway League Champions 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007
Sunny Hills Girls' Soccer 2005 & 2007 CIF Champions
Sunny Hills Boys' Frosh/Soph 2007 Track Team Freeway League Champions, a title unwon by the Lancers in 10 years.
Sunny Hills 2007 Golf CIF Team Champions.
Sunny Hills 2007 Wrestling Freeway League Champions
Sunny Hills 2007 Boys' Water Polo Freeway League Champions (First time since 1993)
Sunny Hills 2007 Boys' Swimming Freeway League Dual Meet Champions

[edit] Notable alumni

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Shane Black, screenwriter and director. Shane Black reportedly named the Bruce Willis character in The Last Boy Scout after the husband of Carol Hallenbeck, a Sunny Hills Honors English teacher.
Jackson Browne, folk singer
Gary Carter, former MLB player and Baseball Hall of Famer
Eric Mun, Korean band (Shinhwa)
Steve Yoo, Korean singer (Yoo Seung Joon)
Austin St. John, The Red Ranger in 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'
Brad Williams (comedian), Stand-up comedian and actor on 'Mind of Mencia
Justin Lee, Actor on Arrested Development and Shredderman Rules
Brian Kelly, former NFL 11 year veteran inside linebacker for the New York Giants.
Larry MacDuff, NFL defensive coordinator and special teams coordinator for various NFL teams.
Frederica Spilman, Gulf War veteran and U.S. Naval Academy Lieutenant who posed for the June 1998 issue of Playboy [1]
Leanna Creel, actress, appeared on the cast of Saved by the Bell, The Cell, and Parent Trap III [2]
Paul Abbott, former MLB player
Omar Amr, 2004 US Olympic water polo player and graduate of Harvard Medical School ^[4]

[edit] Notoriety

On June 1, 1995 1988 Teacher of the Year at Sunny Hills High School, Janet Greene, allegedly tried to kill her former lover Loretta Collier and another woman after breaking into the former lover's Glendora residence and firing at both women while they chatted in the kitchen. Collier died from complications from the gunshot wounds. [3]

Four Sunny Hills honor students participated in the December 1992 murder of Tustin High School Student Stuart Tay, a story which may have inspired the 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow. [4]