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Acalanes High School is a public secondary school located in Lafayette, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, within Contra Costa County. Acalanes High School was the first of what are now four high schools established in the Acalanes Union High School District. It was built in 1940 on what was then a tomato field. The school was built using Federal government funds with labor provided by the Works Project Administration, the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency introduced by the Roosevelt administration. Lafayette businessman M.H. Stanley suggested the name "Acalanes", the name of the Mexican grant from which all land title within the City of Lafayette derives. Rancho Acalanes itself seems to have been named by its Hispanic settlers after the local Native American Bay Miwok tribe called Saclan, referred to by Spanish missionaries as ''Saclanes''. The first graduating class of 1941 selected the school colors of blue and white. For the school sports mascot, they chose the Don (a Spanish honorary title). ==Academics== Acalanes offers a diverse course selection and a number of AP and Honors courses. Among the electives offered are sports medicine, digital design, automechanics, graphic arts, video production, journalism, drama, photography, Mandarin (Chinese), Spanish, French, chorus, band (4 groups), and orchestra. Acalanes academic clubs regularly participate in Bay Area quiz bowl tournaments, including BAAL (Bay Area Academic League). Acalanes also offers Model UN and Academic Decathlon as extracurricular activities. The Acalanes Academic Decathlon team recently won (first place) in the Contra Costa regional meet in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. They took first place in Division III at the 2009 California state competition. Acalanes established the premier scientific school in the Lamorinda community in 2008, winning the regional competition of the National Science Bowl at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Acalanes finished second in the same competition in 2009. However, Acalanes has consistently lagged behind local High Schools Campolindo and Miramonte in more comprehensive rankings based on AP Scores and overall academic quality. For 2013, Campolindo High School was ranked 131st in the U.S.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/california/districts/acalanes-union-high/campolindo-high-school-1712 )〕 Miramonte was ranked 173rd,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/california/districts/acalanes-union-high/miramonte-high-school-1715 )〕 while Acalanes was ranked 275th.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/california/districts/acalanes-union-high/acalanes-high-school-1711 )〕 Acalanes students Blake Marggraff and Matthew Feddersen won the top award (the $75,000 Gordon E. Moore award) at Intel's 2011 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) for their project, a potential new low-cost cancer treatment using tin particles. Marggraff and Feddersen were members of the class of 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.intel.com/about/corporateresponsibility/education/isef/winners.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acalanes High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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