Roseville High School

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Roseville High School
First appearanceEnter High School, page 2
September 10, 2006
Related charactersLani Amalu, Mr. Noodles, Gym teacher (High School)

Roseville High School is the public high school the main cast attends, and the comic’s default weekday setting from Enter High School onward. It sits within walking distance of the gang’s homes,[1] and its sports teams compete as the Roseville High Hornets.[2]

Description

The walk to school runs past a playground and down a tree-lined path.[1][3] The building itself is wide and flat-roofed, with a taller central block over the entrance carrying a large analog clock. Grids of windows run along its wings, and pine trees flank the building on either side. A broad paved forecourt leads up to the columned entrance, and it fills with students every morning before the bell.[4]

Facilities

Auditorium

The auditorium stage, backed by its heavy red curtain, set up for a debate.[5]

The auditorium has a raised plank stage with a heavy red curtain and a row of round footlights along the apron, facing rows of high-backed seats.[6] Backstage there is a hallway and a set of dressing rooms, including the drama club’s.[7]

Sue hauls Lucy straight out of detention to audition for her play in Casting Call.[8] After months of rehearsal, the play finally goes up here, ending with the curtain call where Lucy pulls her hand out of Mike’s.[9] The comic reveals much later that Paulo and Lucy slept together in the drama-club dressing room minutes before that curtain rose.[10]

Bus stop

The stop is a bare stretch of curb and low hedges, with no shelter, bench or sign.[11]

The bus stop is about as minimal as they come, with no shelter, bench or sign, just a stretch of curb and some low hedges where the yellow bus pulls up.[12][13] Augustus rides this bus nearly an hour to get home.[14] He once laid Lucy out flat on the curb before boarding, offering the driver a simple “Sorry, she’s trying to get on the wrong bus.”[12]

Cafeteria

The cafeteria’s round tables and green chairs, with the serving counter along the back.[15]

The cafeteria is one large hall of round tables, each seating six to eight on round-backed green chairs,[16] with doors opening directly onto the track outside.[17] The gang claimed a big table here on their first day, when junior Tess asked to join them at lunch.[18] From junior year onward, Rachel and her friends hold the table right beside it, picked on purpose so that “we can sit next to you guys all year long!”[19]

Lunch here is not always friendly. On the day Lucy returns to visit in Love Again, Paulo chokes Mike with his own scarf at the table,[20] and Abbey breaks up with Daisy moments later.[21] In Line in the Sand, David engineers a reshuffle of the seating that puts Lucy back at the gang’s table and moves Augustus over to Rachel’s senior one.[22] And in one recent chapter, Lucy slides her chair back from the laughing table unnoticed and breaks down crying among the tables.[23]

Gymnasium

The gymnasium, its brick walls hung with pennants above the painted court.[24]

The gymnasium has tan brick walls, a wooden court with painted lines, retractable bleachers, and a fold-down basketball hoop hanging from the panelled ceiling. Blue Hornets pennants are strung along the walls.[2]

Gym class is dodgeball more often than not. Mike spent one freshman class buried under throws from classmates who still considered him a “cheater”,[25] and Abbey made his first appearance pulling Daisy up off this floor.[26]

In Track Meet, Mike suits up alone in the empty gym in Hornets blue (“And I guess.. .. that’s how I became.. .. a jock.”),[2] and afterwards Daisy and Paulo sit up on the bleachers trading confessions. She admits she likes girls, and he admits he thinks James is good-looking.[27]

Hallways and classrooms

The hallways run orange floor tile past long banks of grey-green lockers, and they are packed shoulder to shoulder between classes.[28] The lockers double as the school’s postal service, receiving love letters,[29] birthday balloons,[30] and the occasional anonymous summons.[31]

Homerooms mix grade levels, which is how the freshman gang wound up sharing room 103 with junior Tess.[32] Mr. Noodles welcomed them there on the first morning.[33] A sadder homeroom morning comes in sophomore year, when a grim Miss Amalu tells the class that Lucy will no longer be attending the school.[34]

The halls have seen their share of ugliness. Noah corners Tess in one during Under Pressure, and it is Abbey who knocks him down.[35] The flashbacks in Pillow Talk show a younger Tess spreading rumors about Jessica and slamming her into the lockers.[36]

Library

Tall shelves and big wooden study tables fill the school library.[37]

The school’s library sits up a short flight of steps behind a set of dark double doors.[38] Inside are warm yellow walls, very tall shelf aisles over red carpet, big wooden study tables with red chairs, and a rotating series of “SHUT UP” posters keeping order.[39]

The gang studies here year after year, from the group project in December[40] to senior-year SAT prep.[41] It is also where Mike and Daisy kiss among the shelves.[42]

Oval

The running track curves around the oval, ringed by trees.[43]

The running track is a rust-red oval with white lane lines, bordered on one side by the brick wall of the cafeteria wing and on the other by a chain-link fence with trees beyond.[44] A set of metal bleachers stands beside it,[45] and a grassy rise overlooks the field. Students tend to head here when they would rather not be around everyone else.[46][47]

The bleachers appear in the flashbacks in Pillow Talk, where a younger Craig answered a note from Jessica, then groped and coerced her.[48]

Lucy and Augustus reunite in tears on the leaf-strewn grass at the end of Love Again.[49] In Burnt Bridges, a note in Mike’s locker summons him to the snow-covered bleachers, where Augustus gets him to admit his guilt over Lucy (“I’m a piece of garbage”).[50] Augustus corners Mike here again in Line in the Sand, in front of James and David this time, and tells him outright that his words put Lucy in a psychiatric ward.[51] Lucy ends the confrontation with a kick before walking away.[52]

Staff

  • Mr. Noodles — homeroom and history teacher in freshman and junior year.
  • Miss Amalu — the gang’s homeroom teacher from sophomore year onward.
  • The gym teacher — whistle-blowing overseer of gym class, famously unbothered by whatever violence breaks out during it.
  • The math teacher — runs the freshmen’s rather punishing math class.
  • The English I teacher — in charge of “English for dumbasses”.
  • The Honors English teacher — takes Mike, Abbey, Daisy and Stacy for Honors English, and later AP.
  • The Dalmatian teacher — teaches Paulo and David’s class.
  • The sideswept-bangs teacher — has given up on the class entirely.
  • The environmental club advisor — signs the club up for a full year of trash pickup along the Northern Highway.
  • The track team coach — trains the Hornets’ track division, and is only ever seen from behind.
  • The janitor — guardian of the “no running in the halls” rule.
  • The principal — hosts the pep rallies and graduations, and keeps the office where misbehaving students end up waiting.
  • The vice principal — appears at Tess’s graduation.

Trivia

  • Veronica has explained that the student body is all cats and dogs (with the odd snake) simply because she finds cats and dogs easy to draw. The mice, giraffes and elephants of her earlier comics were dropped over size-difference problems.[53]
  • The authors’ character Q&A blog, along with its Kickstarter companion book Ask Roseville High, takes its name from the school.
  • According to Veronica, James originally attended a private school specifically so that Paulo’s crush on him could stay hidden. She later moved him to Roseville High because keeping him off-panel felt like lost potential.[54]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 21: Enter High School, page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 115: Track Meet, page 11
  3. ↑ Chapter 92: Table for One, page 2
  4. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 4
  5. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 10
  6. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 10
  7. ↑ Chapter 74: Curtain Call, page 4
  8. ↑ Chapter 53: Casting Call, page 8
  9. ↑ Chapter 74: Curtain Call, page 26
  10. ↑ Chapter 114: Double Down, page 59
  11. ↑ Chapter 66: On Our Own, page 6
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 66: On Our Own, page 5
  13. ↑ Chapter 82: Local Area, page 2
  14. ↑ Chapter 66: On Our Own, page 4
  15. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 2
  16. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 2
  17. ↑ Chapter 125: First-Degree Burn, page 18
  18. ↑ Chapter 21: Enter High School, page 6
  19. ↑ Chapter 92: Table for One, page 11
  20. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 14
  21. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 17
  22. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 29
  23. ↑ Chapter 130: [Unknown Title, page 8]
  24. ↑ Chapter 115: Track Meet, page 11
  25. ↑ Chapter 22: A Difficult Choice, page 5
  26. ↑ Chapter 25: Humble Approach, page 1
  27. ↑ Chapter 115: Track Meet, page 13
  28. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 68
  29. ↑ Chapter 51: Unrequited, page 2
  30. ↑ Chapter 107: Unwanted Gift, page 1
  31. ↑ Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 5
  32. ↑ Chapter 21: Enter High School, page 3
  33. ↑ Chapter 21: Enter High School, page 4
  34. ↑ Chapter 75: Breaking Up, page 4
  35. ↑ Chapter 35: Under Pressure, page 8
  36. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 32
  37. ↑ Chapter 83: Small Fry, page 4
  38. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 6
  39. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 7
  40. ↑ Chapter 77: Study Buddy, page 3
  41. ↑ Sugar Substitute, page 1
  42. ↑ Chapter 114: Double Down, page 34
  43. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 7
  44. ↑ Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 6
  45. ↑ Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 7
  46. ↑ Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 4
  47. ↑ Chapter 62: Call Waiting, page 3
  48. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 24
  49. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 20
  50. ↑ Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 9
  51. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 17
  52. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 23
  53. ↑ “Why only cats, dogs, and snakes attend Roseville High”. 2026-04-19.
  54. ↑ “Ask response on James and the track team’s origins”. 2025-10-31.
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