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Carlmont High School is an American public high school located in Belmont, California, United States serving grades 9-12 as part of the Sequoia Union High School District. Carlmont is a California Distinguished School.

History

Carlmont has a student body with a variety of students from many different cities including Belmont, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Mateo. Its name derives from the campus straddling the two adjacent cities of San Carlos and Belmont (thus the portmanteau of Carlos + Belmont). Because this hilly area is also referred to as "the highlands", the school team was named "The Scots", and the mascot is a kilted Scottish highland warrior. The Carlmont campus was built on 42 acres at a cost of about $2.5 million.
Carlmont was originally founded in the year 1952 as "a school within a school" at Sequoia High School, with four hundred fifty freshman and sophomore students. On April 19, 1953, the school was dedicated to Truth- Liberty- Toleration. The morning after, the students arrived by bus caravan from Sequoia high school to occupy the newly built high school facility.
Today, Carlmont has a student body of 2,161 . The school offers many sports and extracurricular activities that promote student involvement and creativity.

Demographics

Today's Carlmont enrollment is made up of a diverse ethnic population which lives in the communities of Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood Shores (a subdivision of Redwood City), and East Palo Alto. Carlmont's population, when it opened in 1953 was 450. Now, it's at its full-capacity with 2,161 students. Most of her students were African-Americans bused in to Carlmont from East Palo Alto, a then-unincorporated town at the opposite end of the school district from Carlmont. With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American student body was bused to Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time. A subsequent 'Open Enrollment' policy in the school district permitted East Palo Alto students to attend high schools closer to home, space permitting.

Notable alumni

Ed Berry, Sr., Class of 1982, played for the Green Bay Packers football team.
Dana Carvey, actor and comedian.
Delaine Eastin, Class of 1965, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Cork Graham, Class of 1982, war correspondents (Associated Press); author of the 2004 bestseller The Bamboo Chest.
Michelle McLaughlin, Playboy Playmate of the Month for February 2008.
Bill Ring, played for the San Francisco 49ers football team in the early 1980s.

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