[citation needed] Quartz Hill High School consists of approximately 3,200 students and growing.

Most of the school's students live in Quartz Hill, Palmdale and Lancaster, cities in the Antelope Valley of northern Los Angeles County.

[citation needed] The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, cross country, track and field, tennis, swimming, wrestling, volleyball, golf and dance.

[citation needed] The men's cross country team is known as the most successful and most accomplished sports programs in the past ten years at Quartz Hill.

[citation needed] The mascot of Quartz Hill High School was formerly the Rebel, a Confederate soldier, beginning in the late 1950s.

[2] On December 15, 2005, two former Quartz Hill students were arrested for planning a Columbine style massacre at the school.