La Quinta High School ***A California State Distinguished - Digital School*** Record of Achievement and Honor 2004- 2005

2005, the State ranked La Quinta “9” on a scale of “10” based upon a review of Statewide Academic Performance of all high schools.

2005, La Quinta was nominated for its second “Title 1 Achievement Award” by the State of California for closing the achievement gap.

2005, Ashley Bremmer and Kristine Nguyen were selected for the All-State Honor Choir.

2005, the Orchestra performed at the CMEA State Music Convention.

2004, La Quinta scored 757 on its Academic Performance Index, the highest score in the Garden Grove Unified School District.

2004, La Quinta met “No Child Left Behind” goals with most students achieving proficiency levels on the High School Exit Exam on both the English and math sections of the test.

2004, La Quinta students continued to score well on the California High School Exit Exam with a 90% pass rate on the math section and a 82.5% pass rate on the English section of the test.

2004, the Varsity Baseball team won the Garden Grove League Championship for the 12 th year in a row. CIF Semi-Finalists.

2004, Dave Demarest named National High School Coach of the Year and Westminster Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year.

2004, 9 students had their photos displayed in the Laguna Art Festival, the most ever from one school. Only 36 images out of almost 900 submitted were chosen and 9 of the 36 came from La Quinta students.

2004, the Boys Varsity Volleyball team won the Garden Grove League Championship.

2004, 25 students had photos displayed in the Huntington Beach Photography Show.

2004, 7 students had photos displayed in the Color It Orange Art Show

2004, the Band performed at the Pearl Harbor Survivors National Convention.

2004, the Orchestra was invited to perform at Disneyland.

2004, Kimberlyn Luong and Timothy Nguyen chosen as members of the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra.