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the high school in San Jose, California

Piedmont High School has officially been awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.

Piedmont High School offers school for children aged ninth through twelfth grade and is particularly popular for families with school aged children looking to move somewhere to improve their schooling prospects. Piedmont's colors are purple and white (representing the Scottish thistle), and its mascot, the Highlander, reflects the school's Scottish heritage.

Funded by a bond passed by voters in 1920, the Piedmont Unified School District opened the city's first high school in September of 1922. Piedmont High was the last school in California to resist pressure from the state to stop enforcing a provision in their dress code which required students wear a uniform. The social scene was once dominated by social clubs, which resembled college sororities and fraternities, reminiscent of Lindsay Lohan's Mean Girls. While the social clubs raised money for the organizations with which they were affiliated, their charitable exterior was just a front for what they really were, mainly drinking clubs. The male clubs died out in the mid 1990s when they grew irrelevant, but the female social clubs didn't end until 2004 when the incoming senior class exhibited overwhelming indifference and distaste for retaining the tradition. "The school was covered in the New York Times when, in the mid 1990s, it began breathalyzing all students before dances. In 2012, the school was covered by many major news outlets for a scandal in which members of the football team created a points system for engaging in sexual activity with female students at the school, unbeknownst to most of the women.

Piedmont High School has an open campus, and students can leave during brunch, lunch, and unscheduled periods. The campus is between Piedmont Park on the right of the school and Piedmont Middle School and Witter Field on the left. The center of campus is a grassy area referred to as "the quad." The quad is the center of campus, connecting the former site of the Alan Harvey Theatre, the library, the cafeteria and student center, and the amphitheater. Classes are scattered around campus, with the music and science buildings the furthest apart. The campus was originally built on a portion of Piedmont Park, and dog walking trails behind the school connect to the park.

The school was built in 1921 in a neoclassical design, part of the same plan that built the Piedmont city's Exedra. Since its designed by architect W. H. Weeks,

Reconstruction in the 1970s reflected the "back to nature" look popular at the time, using wood instead of shingles. The school's "breezeway," an open, wide corridor running between the school's main buildings, exemplifies this. The last construction was an expansion of the gymnasium, during the 2003–2004 school year, to include an entrance room that also displays trophies. The school has undergone further construction following Measure E, which issued $56 million in bonds for the reconstruction of school facilities to meet earthquake safety guidelines.

Piedmont High School is an academically strong school, scoring a 10 out of 10 for test scores at the website GreatSchools. net. In 2008, it was ranked in the top 100 schools in the nation by U. S. News & World Report. The school newspaper reported that the average of GPA of 2006's graduating class was 3.47.

An AP European History course was added, while the junior level course Honors Chemistry was opened to qualifying sophomores.

The current Mandarin V (honors) was replaced by AP Mandarin. The science curriculum changed from the system of "Integrated Science" to specific subjects, such as biology. In the old system, students took Integrated Science I as freshmen, Integrated Science II as sophomores, and either chemistry or honors chemistry as juniors. The new system allows incoming freshmen to choose between physical science (for "most students") and biology (for "students showing mastery of PMS science"). The options are shown in detail below: In 2007, the library's Teen Advisory Board revived the publication of the literary magazine The Highland Piper, which had last been published in the 1970s. The publication has since been discontinued.

The majority of the student body is White, 68%, and Asian, 22%. In 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the lack of racial and socioeconomic diversity in Piedmont in a Sunday front page story. Comparing schools in Oakland and Piedmont, the article wrote that "wealth has created separate and unequal schools in [the] Bay Area and elsewhere." The majority of high school students have lived in Piedmont since elementary school. As in the surrounding cities, only residents of the city can attend school at the district, unless a parent is a district employee. Homes with physical addresses in Oakland that partially abut sections of the Piedmont borders can also send their children to Piedmont schools.

At the beginning of the 2006–2007 school year, the library set up the Teen Advisory Board, a group for students to contribute to the library through writing book reviews, recommending purchases, buying books, decorating the library, organizing library events, and publishing a literary magazine. The literary magazine, The Highland Piper, was launched in the spring of 2007 to publish student original writing. It took its name from the school literary magazine published in the 1930s. It was last printed in June 2009, but a new edition is planned for spring 2014.

Piedmont High is home to the nationally known Leonard J. Waxdeck Bird Calling Contest.

PHS offers a variety of varsity and junior varsity sports. In addition, many Piedmont students participate in the national championship winning rowing team Oakland Strokes; at least one Piedmont graduate, Scott Gault, has competed in the Olympics and World Rowing Championships.