Weed High School
Weed High School is a secondary school located in Weed, California and is part of the Siskiyou Union High School District.
For the 2006–07 school year, the school had student enrollment of 196, an Academic Performance Index of 727 which is equal to the Siskiyou County average API for the same period, and above the CA state average API of 697. The student to teacher ratio was 30:1, and the student to computer ratio was 2:1. The school's racial/ethnic make-up was 40% white/Caucasian, 29% Latino/Hispanic, 31% black/African-American, which is considered quite diverse for a rural school in this geographic area.
Sports history
From 1961 through 1964, the Weed Cougars went undefeated in football. The 1963 team was ranked #1 in northern California by the Sacramento Bee, and later was inducted into the Northern California Sports Hall of Fame.Notable people
- Charlie Byrd, California's first elected black sheriff
- Mort Kaer, famous athlete in both ventures of the Olympics and American football, did not attend Weed as a student, but was head football coach for 28 years, winning 17 conference championships for Weed.
- Aaron Thomas, NFL tight end