Loveland High School (Colorado)

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Loveland High School
Address
Loveland High School (Colorado)
920 West 29th Street

Loveland, Colorado
80538

United States
Coordinates 40°25′13″N105°05′28″W / 40.42029°N 105.09114°W / 40.42029; -105.09114
Information
Type Public
Established1894(130 years ago) (1894) [1]
School district Thompson R2-J School District
CEEB code 060950
PrincipalShawn Collins
Teaching staff73.57 (FTE) [2]
Grades9–12 [1]
Enrollment1,525 (2022-23) [2]
Student to teacher ratio20.73 [2]
Color(s)Red and black
  
MascotRed Wolves [1]
RivalsMountain View Mountain Lions
Thompson Valley Golden Eagles
Website lhs.tsd.org

Loveland High School is a public high school located in Loveland, Colorado, United States. It is one of the five high schools in the Thompson R2-J School District.

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Founded more than one hundred years ago, it is the oldest high school in the district. The first class of graduates left the institution in 1894, and the most recent location was opened in 1964. Before then the school was located in downtown Loveland where Bill Reed Middle School is located. [1] Loveland High School is an International Baccalaureate World School, the inaugural class of which graduated in May 2009. [3]


Demographics

Enrollment size is approximately 1,600 students distributed between grades 9-12, resulting in graduating classes of approximately 400 students. According to 2022-2023 data provided by the school district, the predominant ethnicities at the school are white (70.2%), hispanic (24.0%), and multi-ethnic (3.0%). [4] The demographics of the school largely mirror the population of the city. [5]

Academics

Academic performance as measured by mean SAT composite scores in 2021 and 2022 puts Loveland High School squarely in the middle of the pack nationally, performing within 1 deviation of the mean (2022 national mean composite score = 1050, standard deviation = 216 [6] ).

Standardized test scores
YearMean SAT composite score
2021-20221025 [4]
2022-20231019 [4]

Mascot

For much of its history the school mascot was the Indians. In 2020, the child of the then school board president led the effort to remove the mascot and encouraged the school board to pass a resolution retiring the Indian mascot at Loveland High School and the closely related Warrior mascot at nearby Bill Reed Middle School. The driver for changing the mascot was sentiment that Native American mascots were deemed by the school board to be harmful and perpetuating of derogatory stereotypes. [7] The replacement mascot was decided on by community input and the school board unveiled the Red Wolves as the new mascot for the school on October 7, 2020. [8] The school colors remained the same red and black as they had been before the mascot change. Many of the current students, and the local community, are unhappy with the change, as the majority did not previously see any problem with the original mascot.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Thompson R2-J School district Archived 2007-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 3 "LOVELAND HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 24, 2024.
  3. ↑ "IB Information | Loveland High School". Lovelandhs.org. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
  4. 1 2 3 Loveland High School 2022-2023 school profile (Report). Thompson School District. 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  5. ↑ "Loveland CCD, Larimer County, Colorado Demographics and Housing 2020 Decennial Census".
  6. ↑ 2022 SAT annual suite of assessments final report (PDF) (Report). College Board. 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  7. ↑ Johnson, Pamela (2020-09-04). "Two Loveland schools retire their Native American mascots". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  8. ↑ Johnson, Pamela (2020-10-07). "Loveland High and Bill Reed Middle School choose wolves as new mascots". Loveland Reporter-Herald. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  9. ↑ "Ayden Eberhardt - Football". University of Wyoming Athletics.
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