Mission High School (San Francisco)

Mission High School is a public high school in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), San Francisco, California.

Serving grades 9–12, Mission is the oldest high school on its original site in San Francisco; it has been on 18th Street, between Dolores and Church, since 1896. The original campus burned in 1922, and the replacement was completed in two stages, the west wing in 1925 and the main building was dedicated by San Francisco mayor James Rolph on June 12, 1927. Originally, girls and boys had separate courtyards. The boys' is overlooked by the "baby tower," about high, and the girls' (right) topped by a -high baroque dome. Mission Creek runs beneath the school.

The school is two blocks from Mission Dolores, from which it gets its name. Latino students constitute the largest ethnic group in the school.

left|thumb|Mission High School in 1930

In 1922, the original Mission High School was destroyed by fire. The present Mission High School complex was then constructed in a California Churrigueresque style between 1925 and 1927, during the height of San Francisco's "Golden Age" of school construction. John W. Reid Jr., San Francisco's City Architect, was the designer. The elaborate ornamentation on the school is likely due in part to the visual proximity to the nearby Mission Dolores Basilica, which features towers and ornamentation in the Churrigueresque architectural style.

In 1936, California artist Edith Anne Hamlin was commissioned under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project to create a series of western-themed murals for the school. Noted artist Maynard Dixon consulted with Hamlin on the murals, and the pair married in 1937. Two murals showing the founding of nearby Mission Dolores still survive, while the third was lost during a 1970s seismic retrofit. || 52.5%

Standardized Testing

{| class="wikitable"

! colspan="4" |SAT Scores for 2015-16

|Reading Average

|Writing Average

|Math Average

|Mission

|412

|408

|444

|District

|474

|467

|517

|State

|484

|477

|494

Diversity

Mission High school is the first public school to hold an LGBTQ/Drag Show Assembly.

Programs

thumb|left|Mission High's football field

Mission is the Academic Scholars Advancement Program (ASAP) is a summer program that sends 150 Mission High School athletes attended 31 programs. They traveled to 22 locations in nine states, and a few ventured as far as Japan, China, and Italy. ASAP helps cover the bill to send these kids to a summer program.

Notable alumni and faculty members

Wally Berger, class of 1923 — professional baseball player, starting center fielder in the first All-Star Game
Dorothy Bryant — teacher, novelist, and playwright
Jeffrey Cariaso, class of 1990 — former professional basketball coach and player, Philippine Basketball Association.
Joe Cronin, class of 1923 — professional baseball player and Hall of Famer
Babe Dahlgren, class of 1932 — professional baseball player
Vincent DeDomenico, class of 1933 — inventor of Rice-A-Roni and developer of the Napa Valley Wine Train
Bobby Freeman — rock and roll and R&B singer from the late 1950s; "Do You Want to Dance"
Alan Gallagher, 1963 — former San Francisco Giants third baseman
Eddie Joost, class of 1934 — professional baseball player
Walt Judnich, class of 1934 — professional baseball player
Lloyd Leith — Basketball Hall of Fame coach and referee
Gene Merlino, class of 1946 - Grammy Award winning singer
Guy Mitchell — 1950s pop singer
Julian Neal, 2021 – college football cornerback for the Arkansas Razorbacks
Melissa Ng, 1990 — Hong Kong TV actress
Lothar Osiander — professional soccer coach (MLS, US National Soccer Team)
Charles Phan — chef, cookbook author, and restaurateur
James Rolph — governor of California (1931–1934) and mayor of San Francisco (1912–1931)
Thomas Rolph — United States representative from California, younger brother of James Rolph Jr.
Carlos Santana — musician and songwriter
Jorge Santana — musician, Malo (band)
Gus Triandos, 1948 — professional baseball player
Leland Yee — California State Senator

Faculty

Robert Roth — social studies teacher