El Diamante High School

Public school in Visalia, California, United States

36°18′22″N 119°20′49″W / 36.30611°N 119.34694°W / 36.30611; -119.34694InformationTypePublicEstablished2002School districtVisalia Unified School DistrictPrincipalKim NelsonTeaching staff84.21 (FTE)^[1]Grades9–12Enrollment2,061 (2018–19)^[1]Student to teacher ratio24.47^[1]Color(s)Green, Navy Blue and WhiteMascotMiner EdNicknameMinersNewspaperThe DigYearbookFacetWebsitewww.vusd.org/domain/799

El Diamante High School, known locally as "El D", is a WASC-accredited high school^[2] serving students in grades 9–12 in Visalia, California, USA, in Tulare County. It was established as Visalia Unified School District's fourth public high school in 2002. Its current feeder elementary schools are Cottonwood Creek Elementary, Crestwood Elementary, Goshen Elementary, Linwood Elementary, and Veva Blunt Elementary whose students will attend either La Joya Middle School or Ridgeview Middle School prior to their 9th-grade year.^[3]

Athletics

El Diamante competes in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), Central Section Division II, East Yosemite League.^[4]

Fall

Boys' Cross country
Girls' Cross country
Football
Girls' Golf
Girls' Tennis
Girls' Volleyball
Boys' Water polo
Girls' Water polo

Winter

Boys' Basketball
Girls' Basketball
Boys' Soccer
Girls' Soccer
Wrestling

Spring

Baseball
Boys' Golf
Softball
Swimming
Boys' Tennis
Track and field

Student Activities

Student Newspaper, Television, and Yearbook

Student newspaper The Dig is published on a monthly basis with a mission "to inspire interest and involvement from the student body within our school, while displaying the achievements, power, knowledge and talents Miners bring to the community."^[5]

ED HewS is a student-produced weekly news program. This program airs weekly in student homeroom classes and is archived on the OnAirEdHews YouTube channel.

El Diamante publishes their annual yearbook, The Facet, which is released at the end of the traditional school year.

ASB (Associated Student Body)

El Diamante's ASB class, which like the other four Visalia high schools' ASB classes, prepare for events during the school year, like Battle for the Saddle against Golden West, and rallies.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "El Diamante High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2017-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://vusd.org/news.cfm?story=2598&school=0
^ "School Directory | CIF Central Section". www.cifcs.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-05.
^ "The Dig Staff". 15 March 2011.