Tomales High School
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| Tomales High School | |
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| Location | |
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3850 Irvin Road , California 94971 United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public comprehensive high school |
| Motto | Roll Braves |
| Established | 1912 |
| School district | Shoreline Unified School District |
| Principal | John McGurke |
| Teaching staff | 15.81 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 132 (2023–2024)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 8.35[1] |
| Colors | Red Black White |
| Athletics | North Coast Section |
| Mascot | Brave |
| Nickname | Home of the Braves |
| Accreditation | Western Association of Schools and Colleges |
| Yearbook | The Tide |
| Website | Official website  |
Tomales High School is located in the town of Tomales, California, United States. It is the comprehensive high school of the Shoreline Unified School District. It serves the western Marin and Sonoma County communities, stretching from the towns of Point Reyes Station and Inverness along Tomales Bay, running north past the fishing port of Bodega Bay to the mouth of the Russian River, a distance of nearly 50 miles (80 km), and widening 13 miles (21 km) east from the west coast. Tomales High School draws its students from approximately 450 square miles (1,200 km2). Tomales High School was recognized as a California Distinguished School in 2011.[2]
Tomales Union High School opened on Aug. 5, 1912, with 23 students and one teacher/principal located on a hill in downtown Tomales. The school grew quickly: before the two-classroom school was a decade old, it was expanded to 10 classrooms thanks to a $30,000 school bond. The California Field Act mandates that all the state’s public schools be earthquake safe, and Shoreline School District trustees in the 1960s were faced with either retrofitting the old school or building a new one. Bond elections to finance various options followed and were twice narrowly defeated. In 1967 a third election was successful. Affirmative votes in all precincts except Inverness resulted in an overall 73 percent approval for the $1.1 million bond to finance a new high school. In 1969, the new high school opened along Tomales-Petaluma Road. Much of the school was extensively remodeled in 2011.
Tomales High teams were originally called the Wolves, but in 1950, the name was changed to the Braves. In 2001, Shoreline School District trustees decided the name was disrespectful to Native Americans and voted to change it. Many district residents objected, including several Miwok descendants who said the name had been changed to the Braves to honor them. The trustees voted to keep the name as the Braves but to drop the Indian image.[3]