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Maria Carrillo High School

Maria Carrillo High School is a public high school in Santa Rosa, California, United States. It is managed by the Santa Rosa City Schools district. It opened in 1996 and is in Santa Rosa's Rincon Valley neighborhood.

Maria Carrillo High School opened in 1996 and was named after María Ygnacia López de Carrillo. The school has a statue of the branding iron she used as her land grant in a planter with a dedicated plaque.

Maria Carrillo High School (MCHS), a California Distinguished High School 2013, is one of five comprehensive high schools in the Santa Rosa City Schools district. MCHS currently enrolls 1,550 students in grades 9-12. The school received its first regular accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 1999.

In 2011, news of Maria Carrillo student Kayla Kearney speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial assembly gained widespread popularity after Kearney came out during her speech.

After the district experienced controversial school closures, on March 13, 2025, an emergency staff meeting detailed the amount of staff who were getting laid off due to school mass firings including all of the principals and counselors. In return, the school staged a protest the next day at the district's building which led the school to have 56 staff call absent and 15/16th of the student body absent by the end of March 14, 2025.

Maria Carrillo follows the curriculum mandated by the Santa Rosa City Schools district. The school offers English, fine arts, mathematics, physical education, social sciences, and science classes. The latter include biology, chemistry, zoology, physics, and physical science. The school has a culinary program, where students learn cooking skills and compete for awards at local Santa Rosa restaurants.

Maria Carrillo High School also offers Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams meaning the school has met the College Board's requirements to offer college-level courses to high school students.

Maria Carrillo High School is involved in a dual-enrollment program with Santa Rosa Junior College allowing students to take junior college courses for college and high school credits.

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