- Vista Murrieta High School
- Summary
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VMHS is all about C.L.A.S.S.
At Vista Murrieta High School, every Bronco graduates CLASS: Character, Leadership, Attitude, Scholarship, and Service.
We do this through offering a variety of accredited, engaging academic and extracurricular opportunities to our students, including: eight CTE pathways, over 30 Advanced Placement and Dual courses, an array of electives in music, AVID, visual and performing arts, Project Lead The Way, yearbook and more!
With 22 sports and over 40 clubs, students can find many places to connect, belong, and make a difference. With 16 league championships, 8 individual and team CIF championships, 1 state championship, and 1 gold medal-winning Olympian, our student-athletes find opportunities to achieve in and out of the classroom.
Don’t miss out on the Bronco experience and discover how your student can graduate with CLASS from Vista Murrieta High School!
Enrollment
3,321
School Mission
Vista Murrieta High School inspires every student to think, to learn, to achieve, to care and live through C.L.A.S.S.
Accreditation
Vista Murrieta was granted a six-year term of accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). View the most recent mid-year report here, dated January 2022.
Year School Opened
The first phase of Vista Murrieta High School opened in August 2003 for 9th and 10th-grade students. The second phase of the school, including the Aquatics and Athletic Stadium, were completed in 2004. The school’s first class of seniors graduated in June 2006. In 2018, a state-of-the-art Career Technical Education (CTE) building was opened.
Instructional Goals/Program
The entire school community collaborates to ensure the success of each individual student and prepare them for post-secondary educational options. To help ensure success, each student is assigned to an Assistant Principal and Counselor. The district support center staff, teachers, lead teachers, mentors, school support staff, administrators and parents are all actively involved in providing focus, resources, research data and instructional training for the continuous improvement of the instructional program at VMHS. The school’s instructional program is consistent with the district’s mission of academic success for all students through a K through 12th grade sequence of teaching, learning, assessment and support.
Blue Team Feeder Schools
Elementary
Rail Ranch, Alta Murrieta, Buchanan, Monte Vista, and Lisa J. Mails
Middle
Warm Springs Middle School and Dorothy McElhinney Middle School