Royal High School (California)

Royal High School
Address
1402 Royal Avenue Simi Valley , California United States
Information
Type	public secondary
Established	1968
School district	Simi Valley Unified School District
CEEB code	053379
Principal	Daniel Houghton
Staff	112 (2007-8)
Grades	9-12
Number of students	2,819 (2007-8)
Campus	suburban
Color(s)	Green and gold
Mascot	Ram Murthy the Badass
Website	http://www.rhs.simi.k12.ca.us/

Royal High School (RHS) is one of three public high schools in Simi Valley, California. Royal is part of the Simi Valley Unified School District and is located on Simi Valley's west side. The two main high schools, Royal and Simi Valley, are rivals and always have huge turnouts for their yearly "Simi-Royal" football game. Royal High School is a California Distinguished School and the recipient of a Digital High School Technology Grant. Royal's school colors are green and gold, and their mascot is Willy the Highlander.

It also provides numerous courses of study. It offers many of the Advanced Placement classes sponsored by the College Board including AP English, Calculus AB and BC, Computer Science, Studio Art, World and U.S. History, Spanish, and Government/Economics as well as many Honors courses in addition.

It also offers ROP (work experience) programs and numerous performing, visual, and technical arts. Students may take classes in music theory, photography, video production, music (orchestra), dance, stagecraft, web design, drama, graphics design, or drawing/painting.

Royal opened in 1968 but did not have a graduating class until 1970, because the class of 1969 was not divided up and remained at Simi Valley High School. Royal opened up with only sophomores and juniors. Freshman, at that time, were part of the junior high system.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

Cross Country

Royal's Cross Country team has won many state and league titles, often competing with Thousand Oaks High School. Recent Royal High School accomplishments include:

• 2006: Broke course record at Woodbridge Invitational, Second in California.
• 2005: Broke course record at Woodbridge and Mt. Sac Invitational, First in California.
• 2004: First in California, Fourth in Nation
• 2003: Boys State D1 runner-ups
• 2001: Boys State D1 runner-ups

Volleyball

Royal's boys volleyball team has won many CIF and league titles. Royal's league winning streaks include, 66 straight matches from 1989-1994, 66 straight matches from 1994-1999, and 168 consecutive games in league play from 1989-1994. Royal won 14 consecutive League championships from 1989-2002 and aren't the current league champions again in 2009. In the 20 years of royal's program, they have achieved 4 CIF championships.

On a side note, have you seen those chicks in those shorts. DAMN!!!

Wrestling

Royal Wrestling has won league championships in 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1993, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. They were CIF Division 5 Dual meet Champions twice in a row in 2005 and 2006, and they were Division 2 CIF semi-finalists in 2007 and 2008. They have a 4 year dual meet record of 58-5 as of the season ending in 2008. Royal wrestling has been one of the top teams in Ventura County History. The wrestling team has now accomplished a Marmonte League first, as their varsity won league for the fifth time in a row in 2008. Royal also accomplished a Ventura County best with 8 CIF placers in 2008. Their star wrestler, Rich Van Horn, pwned some noobs at CIF, raping them up the asshole....literally!

Clubs

Royal High School hosts a number of extracurricular clubs. Members of the Writing Club attend community author readings as well as create and share their own creative writing.

The Interact Club at Royal High School is one of many community service clubs at Royal. It's members are all passionate about helping out their local and international community. It is sponsored by the Noontime Rotary CLub of Simi Valley. In 2009, the Interact Club recieved a Presidential Citation from Rotary President Dong Kurn Lee for it's oustanding effort to "Make Dreams Real".

Royal High School loves its very own Communist Club, where members discuss the merits of Communism as well as its falacies. The club has found some opposition, however the members have succesfully become an official club at Royal. The club's discusses past and present Communist regimes as well including Soviet Russia, China, North Korea, and Cuba. It examines both the economic policies of these countries as well as the political policies of these countries. The club's president is Ram Murthy and the vice-president is James Xu.

Arts

The Royal High School Drama Program has recently produced Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, 42nd Street, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Wiz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and is currently starting production on High School Musical featuring star pianist Ram Murthy.

The Band Department at Royal High School has a world renowned Jazz Band, led by band director Lisa Fleming. Their star performer at the moment is their pianist Ram Murthy.

External links

• Official Royal High School Website
• Royal High School Drama Website
• Royal Boys Volleyball Website
• Official Wrestling Website