Chaminade College Preparatory School (California)

For other schools with this name, see Chaminade (disambiguation).

Chaminade College Preparatory High School Campus
Per Matrem Ad Filium Through the Mother To the Son
Address
7500 Chaminade Avenue Los Angeles (West Hills), California 91304 United States
Coordinates
Information
Type	Private
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic; Marianist
Established	1952
Oversight	Archdiocese of Los Angeles
President	Robert Webb
Principal	Dr. Cynthia Colón
Faculty	103 (2014–15)
Teaching staff	99 (2014-15)
Grades	6–12
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	1350 (2014-15)
Campus size	19.67 acres (7.96 ha)
Color(s)	Orange and Navy Blue
Athletics conference	CIF – Southern Section
Mascot	Eagle
Team name	Eagles
Accreditation	Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Average SAT scores	1721 (Nat'l Avg: 1500)
Average ACT scores	25 (Nat'l Avg:20-21)
Newspaper	The Talon
Yearbook	Aerie
Tuition	$14,250 (2014–15)
Dean of Students	Bryan Cantwell Pamela Liceralde
Admissions Director	Esther Bonino Bennett
Athletic Director	Todd Borowski
Guidance & Counseling Director	Juliana Gallant
Performing Arts Director	Yvette Bishop
Website	www.chaminade.org

Middle School Campus
Address
19800 Devonshire Street Los Angeles (Chatsworth), California 91311
Coordinates
Information
Dean	Michael Hart and Joe Norton
Principal	Mike Valentine
Faculty	53 (2014–15)
Grades	6–8
Enrollment	682 (2014–15)
Campus size	16.82 acres (6.81 ha)
Accreditation	WASC
Newspaper	The Screaming Eagle
Athletic Director	Walt Stewart

Chaminade College Preparatory is a private Catholic preparatory school with two campuses in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Named after Society of Mary founder Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, Chaminade College Preparatory consists of a middle school (encompassing grades 6–8) located in Chatsworth and a high school (encompassing grades 9–12) located in West Hills. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Chaminade College Preparatory was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in 1998.

History

Originally called Chaminade High School for Boys, Chaminade College Preparatory was founded in 1952 on the former site of the Pacific Military Academy in West Los Angeles by members of the Marianist Province of the Pacific, who were seeking to expand their educational mission into Southern California. The school became nationally famous for the celebrity students who attended the school or came to its dances. The school's mascot name, the Eagles, can be traced to a tower at the school that featured an imposing Army Eagle emblem in tile, with the beak pointed toward the arrows as in wartime. The high school moved to its current location in West Hills (then part of Canoga Park) in 1961 after the brick buildings of the original campus were deemed unsound. A junior high school serving grades 7–9 was formed in 1967 when the former St. John's Military Academy in Chatsworth was leased by the school, expanding Chaminade's educational program from four to six years. A seventh year was added in 1989 with the addition of a 6th grade class to the junior high school; the ninth grade was moved to the high school campus that same year to accommodate the addition of the sixth grade to the junior high school, which would then become the middle school.

The school became co-educational in 1972, with the first female graduates in the Class of 1974. Chaminade's two campuses served as the primary locations for the 1976 film The Pom Pom Girls.

Athletics

In 2010, The Boys Golf team won CIF.

In 2006, The Girls Varsity Softball Team won its first of two consecutive CIF Championships

In 1997, the Chaminade Varsity girls soccer team won its first of four consecutive CIF Championships.

In 1998, the boys basketball team won its first of two consecutive CIF Championships.

In 2013, The Girl's soccer team won the CIF Southern Section Division I

In 2013, a Chaminade Equestrian rode into 2nd place at Interscholastic Equestrian League

In 2013, the Boys Varsity Football team won the CIF Championship, CIF Regional Championship and CIF State Championship.

In 2014, the Boys Varsity Basketball team won the CIF state championship.3rd State Crown this season.

In 2014, the Boys Varsity Fencing team won the California State High School Fencing Championships.

In 2014, the Boys Varsity Football team won the California State High School Football Championships.

In 2014, the Chaminade Wrestling team won 4 medals at the Mission League Finals. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place.

In 2015, the Girl's Basketball team won the CIF Southern Section Open Division championship.

In 2015, the Men's Combined Fencing Team won the State Championships.

Sports offered

Fall

• Boys' Cross Country
• Girls' Cross Country
• Football
• Girls' Golf
• Girls' Tennis
• Girls' Field Hockey
• Girls' Volleyball

Winter

• Boys' Basketball
• Girls' Basketball
• Boys' Soccer
• Girls' Soccer
• Wrestling

Spring

• Baseball
• Boys Golf
• Boys Lacrosse
• Girls' Lacrosse
• Girls' Softball
• Boys' Tennis
• Boys' and Girls' (Coed) Track and Field
• Boys' and Girls' Swimming
• Boys' Volleyball

Summer

• Fitness Program

Multi-season

• Cheerleading
• Coed Equestrian
• Fencing

Clubs offered

For sports offered, see above section.

• Ambassadors
• Aerial Team
• Armenian Cultural Studies Club
• American Red Cross
• Asian Cultural Studies
• ATLAS Environmental Club
• Band (Marching, Jazz, and Concert)
• Black Cultural Studies
• Blue Crew
• Caring Hand for Children
• Color/Winter Guard
• Improvanade (Comedy Sportz)
• Computer Programming Club
• Chaminade Historical Society
• Chaminade Model United Nations
• CSF (California Scholarship Federation)
• Dance Team
• Diversity Team & JDT (Junior Diversity Team)
• Drama (Chaminade Players)
• Eagle Business
• Eagle Engineering (Robotics)
• FDA (Future Doctors of America)
• Film Club
• HALT (Hunger Awareness)
• Harmony Chorus
• Healing Hands
• High Sierra (Hiking)
• International Culinary Club (ICC)
• JAM (Joy through Art & Music)
• JSA (Junior Statesmen of America)
• Key Club
• L.I.F.E. Team
• Link Crew
• Lord's Chords
• Material Girls (Quilting Club)
• Mathletes
• Mission Sparkle
• Mock Trial
• My Name, My Story
• National Art Honor Society (NAHS)
• National Honor Society (NHS)
• Operation Smile
• PB&J (Pease, Beauty, and Justice Club)
• Photography Club
• Reach for the Starts
• Reading Rainbow Book Club
• Red Cross Club
• Role Playing Club
• Rocket Research Club
• Science Club
• Speech & Debate Society
• Spiritones (Acapella Group)
• Sport's Medicine
• STRUT (Staying TRU Together)
• Student Council
• Talon Newspaper
• T.E.M.A Teens for Emergency Medical Aid
• Team M-I-S-T
• Water Project
• Writers Block
• W.W.F. (World Wildlife Club)
• Yearbook
• Young Artist Alliance

Notable alumni

• John Longenecker (1965) – cinematographer and Academy Award winner
• David Paich (1972) – keyboardist (Toto, Boz Scaggs) and composer / lyricist ("Rosanna", "Africa", "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle")
• Joseph Rohde (1973) – Disney executive, lead designer of Disney's Animal Kingdom
• Laura Frankos Turtledove (1977) – author
• Linda Hogan nee Claridge (1977) – reality TV star, ex-wife of wrestler Hulk Hogan
• Mary Elizabeth McDonough (1970s) – actress (The Waltons, The New Adventures of Old Christine)
• Ron Insana (1979) – financial journalist / analyst (CNBC and syndicated)
• Shelley Lubben (1986) – Pornographic actress and activist
• Tracey Gold (1987) – actor
• Dean Ween (1987) – Lead singer of Ween
• Missy Gold (1988) – actor
• Sydney Penny (1989) – actor
• Paige Hemmis (1990) – actor
• Melissa Francis (1991) – CNBC reporter
• Beverley Mitchell (1999) – actor
• Dave Keuning (1999) - founding member of The Killers
• Brett Erlich (2000) – co-host of Current TV's InfoMania
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas (2000) – actor
• David Gallagher (2003) – actor
• Anna Webber (2004) – Photographer
• Chris Turner – football quarterback
• Dan Runzler (2003) – Major League Baseball Pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
• Logan Paulsen (2005) – Starting tight end for the Washington Redskins
• Danielle Zymkowitz (2007) – softball player for the Chicago Bandits
• Kevin Pillar (2007) – Major League Baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Brittany Cervantes (2008) – Softball player for the Chicago Bandits
• Ryan Griffin (quarterback) (2008) – for the New Orleans Saints
• Laura Marano - (2014) Award winning actress/singer signed to Big Machine and former Disney actress (Austin & Ally)

External links

• Chaminade College Preparatory website