Saratoga High is one of the most rigorous public schools in California. More than 98 percent of its graduates attend college, and in 2011, 90 percent of the AP tests taken earned a qualifying score. As a result, most graduates feel that the school has prepared them to face college and life in general.

In France, families celebrate Christmas with their own special cake of sorts called a “bouche de noel.” That same tradition came to life Dec. 7 when nearly 85 students from French classes at Los Gatos and Saratoga held a friendly decorating contest at LGHS’s community room.

Boys' Football takes to the Quad with their choreographed dance for the Senior Quad Day, which took place during lunchtime on Nov. 6.

Despite it being a mere few weeks into the school year, the drama department has hit the ground running with prompt auditions both inside and outside the classroom. While the annual fall play “On the Razzle” is already rehearsing, advanced and honors drama students have begun to direct and act in mini-productions of their own.

On the Razzle

Saturday, August 22 marked the seventh annual Marshall Clark Fun Run. The race has been held every year since the late Marshall Clark passed away from a heart attack on September 30, 2002, while on a run with his team. Clark was the cross country coach at SHS for eleven years after a successful career at coaching at Stanford University.
   

New student Johannes Stimmer, who goes by his middle name Manuel, traveled from Munich, Germany, to be a sophomore this year, and is currently staying with the Bedard family.  
   
Although he studied English at his school in Germany, Stimmer decided to come to the U.S. so that he could “study English and learn to do things independently,” he said.
“I thought it would be nice to be a foreign exchange student.”
   
According to Stimmer, adjusting to the school has been going well, even with all the differences compared to his school back in Germany.
  

Last year, Saratoga was ranked No. 72 nationwide in U.S. News and World Report’s first annual ranking of high schools.
This year, however, students were slightly disappointed to find the school’s true ranking had dropped No. 80 in second year of the ranking—behind local schools such as Gunn and Monta Vista.