Colony High School

Colony High School
Colony High School
Address
	3850 East Riverside Drive; Ontario, California 91761; United States
Information
Type	Public secondary
Motto	"Everything we do at Colony, we do with pride!"
Established	2002
School district	Chaffey Joint Union High School District.
Principal	Tommy Mitchell
Enrollment	2,122 (2022–23)
Color(s)	Red; Blue; White
Slogan	"Everything we do at Colony, we do with Pride!"
Athletics conference	Palomares League
Mascot	Tommy the Titan, Torro
Team name	Titans
Newspaper	Titan Tribune
Yearbook	The Odyssey
Website	[1]

Colony High School is a high school located in Ontario, California, and is part of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District.^[2] The school serves the communities of southern Ontario, including the new Ontario Ranch community and portions of eastern Rancho Cucamonga and southeast Fontana.^[3] The school earned the 2018 Civic Learning Award for the State of California ^[4] and was a 2018 Silver Medal winner for the U.S. News & World Report ranking of Best High Schools.^[5] Over 60 percent of the Colony High School Class of 2017 met the University of California A-G requirement rate, nearly 14 percent above the state average.^[6]

History

When Colony High School opened in 2002, its first students and faculty were transfers from around the Chaffey Joint Union High School District.^[7]

Jim Brodie was the school's first principal.^[8] As of 2020, Thomas Mitchell serves as the school's principal.

Campus

The Lewis Family Branch of the Ontario City Library is a shared facility found on campus.^[9]

Academics

Colony High School follows a standard California high school curriculum as defined by the California Department of Education's High School Graduation Requirements and tests students with the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program and the California High School Exit Exam.^{[citation needed]}

Colony High School offers students opportunities to earn college credit through College Board Advanced Placement (AP) and dual-credit courses. Dual-credit courses, are taken at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga during the summer session and, if passed, qualify as credit for both high school graduation and college classes. In addition, Colony High School has the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program, honors classes, and participates in the nationwide Renaissance program.^{[citation needed]}

The Class of 2006 recorded the highest pass rate for any AP test, receiving a 95% pass rate for the AP Calculus test under the instruction of Christopher W. Chang.^{[citation needed]}

Arts

Colony High School has a wide array of classes and clubs revolving around the arts: Art, Ceramics, Music Appreciation, Digital Media, Drama & Theatre, Choir, Dance, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Percussion, and Color Guard classes.

Band, percussion, and color guard

The Colony High School Titan Regiment consists of a band, percussion, and color guard. They compete in the California State Band Championships (CSBC) and the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) circuits and host annual field tournaments.^[10]

Championship titles

2011: 1st place (2A)^[11]
2022: 1st place (3A CSBC); 1st place (Open Class State Finals for 1A/2A/3A) State Champions^[12]

Theatre

The Colony Theatre Arts Department performs at the 1,263 seat Colony High School Performing Arts Theatre. Among their past productions are Dracula, Grease, Black Comedy, Metamorphoses, Noises Off, West Side Story, You Can't Take It with You, Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol, Lend Me A Tenor, Once on this Island, Leading Ladies, The Diviners, Tartuffe, The Elephant Man (play), Blithe Spirit (play) and a variety show titled 30/60 (which features a cast of seven performing thirty original skits in sixty minutes, hence the name 30/60). They have also performed other theatrical shows, such as Hairspray, A Dinner With Zombies (which made its theatrical debut at Colony High School) and Sophocles' Antigone. The department has competed in the Drama Teacher Association of Southern California's (DTASC) acting and tech competition, and the California Educational Theatre Association's CETA event.