Valencia High School serves YL for 75 years
Valencia High School—hosting a big 75th anniversary bash next month—has a long history serving Yorba Linda students, dating back to the Great Depression years.
Early residents formed the Yorba Linda Elementary School District in 1912 and joined the Fullerton High School District in 1914, but other elementary districts with territory now within city limits merged into the Placentia Union School District in 1933.
Before the Yorba Linda district opened, the few local students had walked to an Olinda school in 1910 and then attended the first Yorba Linda school on Olinda Street in 1911.
Forming the Placentia unified district were the Commonwealth, Richfield, Placentia and Yorba districts. Valencia’s inaugural year was 1933-34, with one senior graduating June 1934: Roy Tillery, who portrayed all of the characters in his senior class play, was given the first VHS diploma by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Some westside Yorba Linda students moved to El Dorado, when the campus opened in 1966, while eastside Yorba Lindans stayed at Valencia until Esperanza opened in 1974.
The Yorba Linda district, eventually including Yorba Linda Junior High and Mabel Paine, Rose Drive and Linda Vista elementary schools, sent grads to Fullerton then Troy high schools, before joining Placentia Unified in 1989, with high school students staying at Troy until 1993.
Now, with open enrollment opportunities, students throughout Yorba Linda attend El Dorado, Esperanza and Valencia high schools, and many will move to the new Yorba Linda High School this fall. Van Buren is the only Yorba Linda elementary school currently assigned to the Valencia attendance area.
But Valencia draws Yorba Linda students to magnet technology and International Baccalaureate programs, and Yorba Lindans in Kraemer Middle School’s GATE program attend several classes on the Tiger campus.
This year, 150 IB and 33 Val Tech students reside in Yorba Linda, according to Principal Jim Bell, a longtime Yorba Linda resident, and for next year, the school accepted another 76 for IB and nine for Val Tech from Yorba Linda, noted Counselor Mark Stanley, also a Yorba Linda resident.
Anniversary events will include individual class activities June 26, an all-day, on-campus celebration and dance June 27, family picnic-in-the-park June 28 and a golf tournament at Black Gold Golf Club June 29.
Early residents formed the Yorba Linda Elementary School District in 1912 and joined the Fullerton High School District in 1914, but other elementary districts with territory now within city limits merged into the Placentia Union School District in 1933.
Before the Yorba Linda district opened, the few local students had walked to an Olinda school in 1910 and then attended the first Yorba Linda school on Olinda Street in 1911.
Forming the Placentia unified district were the Commonwealth, Richfield, Placentia and Yorba districts. Valencia’s inaugural year was 1933-34, with one senior graduating June 1934: Roy Tillery, who portrayed all of the characters in his senior class play, was given the first VHS diploma by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Some westside Yorba Linda students moved to El Dorado, when the campus opened in 1966, while eastside Yorba Lindans stayed at Valencia until Esperanza opened in 1974.
The Yorba Linda district, eventually including Yorba Linda Junior High and Mabel Paine, Rose Drive and Linda Vista elementary schools, sent grads to Fullerton then Troy high schools, before joining Placentia Unified in 1989, with high school students staying at Troy until 1993.
Now, with open enrollment opportunities, students throughout Yorba Linda attend El Dorado, Esperanza and Valencia high schools, and many will move to the new Yorba Linda High School this fall. Van Buren is the only Yorba Linda elementary school currently assigned to the Valencia attendance area.
But Valencia draws Yorba Linda students to magnet technology and International Baccalaureate programs, and Yorba Lindans in Kraemer Middle School’s GATE program attend several classes on the Tiger campus.
This year, 150 IB and 33 Val Tech students reside in Yorba Linda, according to Principal Jim Bell, a longtime Yorba Linda resident, and for next year, the school accepted another 76 for IB and nine for Val Tech from Yorba Linda, noted Counselor Mark Stanley, also a Yorba Linda resident.
Anniversary events will include individual class activities June 26, an all-day, on-campus celebration and dance June 27, family picnic-in-the-park June 28 and a golf tournament at Black Gold Golf Club June 29.
posted by Jim Drummond at 12:00 PM
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