Las Vegas High School

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Las Vegas High School
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LVHS in 2009
Location
Las Vegas High School
6500 E. Sahara Avenue

Las Vegas
,
Nevada

United States
Coordinates 36°08′46″N115°01′55″W / 36.146°N 115.032°W / 36.146; -115.032
Information
Type Public High School
EstablishedOriginal campus: 1930;96 years ago (1930)
Current campus: 1993;33 years ago (1993)
School district Clark County S.D.
PrincipalRay Ortiz
Teaching staff108.00 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,552 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio23.63 [1]
ColorsBlack and red   
Athletics conference Sunrise 5AAA Region
Team nameWildcats
Rivals Eldorado, Rancho
PublicationHollywood
YearbookEcho
Website www.lvwildcats.com

Las Vegas High School is a public high school in Sunrise Manor, Nevada, and part of the Clark County School District. Established in 1905, it is the oldest high school in the Las Vegas area. The school moved to its current campus on East Sahara Avenue in 1993, while its former downtown campus, known for its Art Deco architecture, was converted into the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies and Performing Arts. The schools mascot is the wildcat, and its colors and red and black.

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History

The original campus of Las Vegas High School in 2006, now the campus for the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. LVAISPVA.png
The original campus of Las Vegas High School in 2006, now the campus for the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts.

Las Vegas High School's original campus was constructed a tent near the cottonwoods near north Creek of town for the 1905 school year. In 1911 High school classes were moved to the Clark County School at Fourth Street and Bridger Avenue, the precursor to Las Vegas High. Seventeen students were enrolled.

On December 17, 1917 a new Las Vegas High School is built at a cost of $42,500, opens at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue with 51 students. On May 11, 1934. Las Vegas High was destroyed by a fire. A new high school was built in 1930 and caused much controversy at the time for its location. In the early 1930s, the new High School was considered to be quite distant from the rest of the town and was a commute for some students. The school originally had three buildings, the tri-level Main building on the corner of 7th and Bridger, the Gymnasium, and a third building that originally housed wood shops and vocational classes, and later government classes. It was torn down in 1969. Las Vegas High School is now a landmark in Las Vegas for it represents the best of the Art-Deco Style Architecture of the 1930s, that still stands in the city. The school's outer appearance has been maintained but the interior has been changed quite a bit since the original construction in the 1930s. Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis, for whom Nellis Air Force Base is named, graduated from Las Vegas High School.

During the late 1980s, the school district decided to build a new larger campus on the east side of Clark County. The original buildings that were Las Vegas High School are now the home to the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, which opened in 1993.

Athletics

Las Vegas High School's athletics teams are known as the Wildcats and participate in the 5A Division III Southern sports division. The Wildcats athletics programs are some of the best in the state and have won numerous championships with several in football, including the 1944 team which went all eight games without giving up a single point. [2] The football team also has two historic rivalries, the Battle of Sunrise Mountain against Eldorado High School, which began in 1993 (and coined by a former 1985 graduate of Eldorado High School) and the Bone Game against Rancho High School, the latter of which is the oldest football rivalry in the state of Nevada. [3] [4] Las Vegas has won 22 consecutive games against Rancho, dating back to 1996. [5]

Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association State Championships

Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association State Runners-Up

Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Individual State Champions

Relay – 2001 and 2015 - 400x2 (Elias Miller, Tre' James, Kalin Quailis, Eric Williams)

Relay – 2007

NIAA REGION CHAMPIONS - (1999–Present)

Basketball (Men's) - 2000, 2001, 2002

Basketball (Women's) - 2003

Bowling (Men's) - 2014, 2017

Football - 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Track and Field (Men's) - 2000

Soccer (Men's) - 1999, 2006, 2009, 2018

Softball - 2005, 2007

Volleyball (Men's) - 2005, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017

Wrestling - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2026

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Las Vegas High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
  2. ↑ NIAA Record Book Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Butterworth, Scott (September 26, 1997). "No bones about it: This game is big". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2008.
  4. ↑ Sir Herkimer's Bone Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Ray Brewer (October 20, 2017). "Bone Game still means something between Las Vegas, Rancho". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Barbara Knudson Henry obituary". Las Vegas Review-Journal . May 12, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
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