Montgomery High School & Montgomery Junior High School is a public high school & Junior high located in Santa Rosa, California. It is part of the Santa Rosa High School & Middle School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools.
Montgomery High School was named after Bill Montgomery. Montgomery is considered the first person from the city of Santa Rosa to have died in World War II. William "Billy" Montgomery was killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, while serving aboard the battleship .
On March 1, 2023, a 16-year-old student was stabbed to death by another student on the schoolâÂÂs campus.
In February 2025, the Santa Rosa City School District Board decided to make Montgomery High School into a K7-12 school taking in middle schoolers who were expected to go to Herbert Slater Middle School by June 2026.
Due to the closure of Herbert Slater Middle School, a two-story new math and science building has been constructed to make room for incoming 7th and 8th grade students primarily from the late Herbert Slater Middle School now Montgomery Junior High School.
Montgomery participates in the International Baccalaureate Organization as an IB World School, providing the IB Diploma Programme as well as the full complement of classes available to juniors and seniors. Montgomery High School has been an IB World School since July 1995.
Montgomery High School houses an elective called Advancement Via Individual Determination or AVID. This 4-year elective course is geared towards preparing students to become first-generation college students within their families through academic support programs and access to aid.
Montgomery 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.
During the 1990âÂÂ1991 school year, Montgomery High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
Montgomery was recognized as a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education in 1990.