Highlights
- Newsweek ranks Arcadia High School 521 on its 2008 list of the United States' 1300 best public high schools
- 250 students compete on 8 state and national award-winning academic teams
- The 1993 and 2010 national champions, the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution Team
- A national-placing Speech and Debate Team
- A national-placing Quiz Bowl Team
- A national-placing Ocean Sciences Bowl Team
- A national-placing Science Bowl Team (4th place in 2010).
- A state-placing Science Olympiad Team
- A state-placing Mock Trial Team
- Nationally recognized 386-member Apache Marching Band and Colorguard
- 350-student Symphony Orchestra program
- About 90 students involved in 3 groups of Percussion.
- The Arcadia World (Varsity) Percussion Ensemble, the #1 ranked high school percussion ensemble in the nation, is an eight-time finalist in Winter Guard International, winning the world championship in 2011.
- A national-placing colorguard
- Dance and theater production groups
- 250-student Choral Department program
- Nationally-acclaimed show choirs: Chanteurs and New Spirit
- Arcadian Yearbook and Apache Pow Wow Newspaper Staff of over 115 students
- Video Production and Apache News Team
- One-fourth of the 3,600 students participate in the athletics teams and program
- 48-member Pep Squad
- #1 ranked cross country program in the nation.
- 2010 Boys Cross Country state and national champions.
- Future Business Leaders of America in the top 8 of the state of California.
- Scenes in the movie Deal of a Lifetime were filmed on location at Arcadia High School
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