as of april of the 2010–2011 school year, whitney high school runs forty-seven clubs. many of these clubs, including those pertaining to art, dance, music (the school's band and orchestra), foreign language, and the united states air force junior reserve officers' training corps, directly correspond to official classes that are run by the school itself. others, including the california scholarship federation and national honor society, can be used as catalysts to fulfill the community service graduation requirement. the high school's yearbook, known as "details", was awarded a silver crown award at the 2009 scholastic awards convention at columbia university alongside rocklin high school's yearbook; in addition, whitney's yearbook placed first in the 2006 national student press association best-of-show's yearbook length 1–224 pages category. the school's newspaper, known as "the roar", was founded in the spring of 2005 by the school's journalism i course; the first issue was released in march of the following year.