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Sophomore Zeyneb Kaya was recently announced as one of the 335 winners of the 2021 Congressional App Challenge, a competition where middle and high school students submit original apps to be judged by local members of Congress.  Kaya placed first within Congressional District CA-18, represented by local Congresswoman Anna Eshoo. All of the winning apps […]

New cases can be tracked using the District’s COVID-19 Dashboard. Despite the rise of the highly transmissible new omicron variant, the district said that Saratoga and Los Gatos High Schools are unlikely to return to remote learning. District leaders say they are following all COVID-19 Safety Guidelines established by the County Health Department and Office […]

For the first time since the pandemic began, the school has seen a big uptick in COVID-19 cases following the return from winter break.  Before the return to school on Jan. 3, at least 29 students and five staff members had initially tested positive, assistant principal Brian Thompson said. The weekend before, the district distributed […]

Following a remote senior year amidst the pandemic, SHS Class of 2021 alumni detail their transition into college. With some schools offering fully in-person courses and others still in a hybrid learning format, four alumni discuss their unique experiences, the college learning curve and advice they would give to high schoolers navigating college life.   […]

Junior debate captain Anushka Sankaran stared at the tiny black boxes on her screen in September 2021 taking notes on what her opponent said during her debate round in public forum. Despite having gone back to in-person learning for school, all of the speech and debate competitions she participated in so far this year have […]

Clutching bright pink call slips, students flocked to the health office on Dec. 3, following the school’s second instance of discovering COVID-19 cases after its first record on Nov. 4. On the night of Dec. 2, assistant principal Brian Thompson informed the staff that a student and an adult have tested positive for COVID-19, amounting […]

For her day job, Class of 2013 alumna Ashwini Velchamy works as an pretrial attorney in Louisiana helping inmates on death row. For the second year in a row, her volunteer night job is to be the attorney coach for the school’s mock trial team. Again this year, she is doing this work remotely on […]

The school’s top Quiz Bowl team has qualified for next spring’s High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT) as the result of a second-place finish at the Cal Cup 1 on Nov. 13. Quiz Bowl sent three teams to compete in the tournament. Members were assigned to the competitive, standard and novice teams based on prior […]

When freshman Will Norwood lived in St. Albans, England, he saw his grandparents every week. He then moved to the U.S. in fourth grade and traveled back twice a year to visit them. Due to the pandemic, however, Norwood has not seen them for two years, so he was looking forward to flying back to […]

On  Dec. 13, following seven shortened class periods, the seventh period final will kick off finals week. In the following three days, students will take their fifth and sixth period finals on Tuesday, first and third on Wednesday and second and fourth on Thursday. Between each two-hour-long testing period is a 90-minute break consisting of […]