Peoria High School (Arizona)

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Peoria High School
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Peoria High School (Arizona)
11200 North 83rd Avenue Peoria, Arizona, United States of America 85345
Coordinates 33°35′14″N112°14′23″W / 33.587095°N 112.239822°W / 33.587095; -112.239822
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Type Public Secondary
Established1919
PrincipalLanda Tartaglio
Teaching staff70.96 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment1,573 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio22.17 [1]
Color(s)   Green and gold
Mascot Panthers
Rivals Cactus High School

Centennial High School

Raymond S. Kellis High School
AIA Class4A
Website Peoria High School

Peoria High School is a public secondary school located in Peoria, Arizona, United States, serving grades 9 to 12. It is the oldest high school in the Peoria Unified School District and opened in 1919; its original building Old Main was constructed in 1922, renovated in 2014, and named a Historic Place in 2019. The school enrolls around 1,500 students, 10% of which participate in the school's Advanced Placement program. There are over 40 clubs on campus, as well as a strong athletics program.

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History

Peoria High School was originally located in the back of a general store/post office combination and taught by a single teacher in 1919, but after a railroad was built in the city, a new building opened in 1922, enrolling 50 students. [2] [3] At its opening, the school, built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, was the largest structure in town and contained period luxuries such as indoor plumbing. [4] In the next few decades, the school was the only Arizonan high school to continue allowing Japanese American students to attend during World War II, while in 1962, it was the first in the area to allow African American students to participate in sports. [3]

The main building, Old Main, closed in 2008 for renovations, which would begin in 2012 and end in 2014, adding modernized classrooms, labs, and spaces, as well as a student lounge. After its reopening, the building also housed the district's non-traditional high school, the Peoria Flex Academy. [3] [5] The district's Medical, Engineering, and Technology (MET) Academy share the space with the Center, though the District acquired the Arizona Challenger Space Center building in 2017 with plans to move the Academy into the Space Center; by 2019, the District's board members voted to repurpose the center into an Arts Center where students from any high school may take specialized art classes. [5]

In 2019, Old Main was named to the National Register of Historic Places. [6]

Enrollment

The school currently enrolls around 1,500 students, consisting of 51% male and 49% female students. The majority of students are Hispanic, with 55%, while 30% are White, 8% are Black, 3% are multiracial, 2% are Asian, 1% are Native American, and 0.3% are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. 70% of the students are minorities. 56% of the students are economically disadvantaged, a metric calculated from the number of students receiving free or reduced priced lunches. [7]

Academics

Peoria High School offers various academic tracks: basic, honors, and Advanced Placement (AP). The basic track allows a wide variety of classes with no added weight in GPA. The honors program offers a somewhat harder work load, countered by a weighting the grade point average differently. The Advanced Placement (AP) program offers college credit with the same grade weighting as an honors class. All students may take a mixture of basic, honors and AP if they wish.

10% of students participate in the AP program. [8]

Peoria High School's graduation rate is around 94%. [9] The graduation ceremony takes place at the State Farm Stadium, which is located in the neighboring city of Glendale.

Extracurricular activities

Clubs and organizations

Peoria has a variety of clubs [10] and a marching band that has consistently placed third in its division at the State Marching Band Festival. [11]

Athletics

Peoria won its first state football championship in 1939, when the team was still known as the Horned Toads. [12]

In the late 1980s, Peoria was one of the most dominant and successful athletics programs in Arizona. Between 1984 and 1989, Peoria won 8 State Championships in Men's and Women's Basketball, Women's Softball, Men's Baseball, Football and Wrestling.[ citation needed ]

Championships

Alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Peoria High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ "About Us". Peoria Unified. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Coe, Jackee (July 24, 2014). "Historic Peoria school gets facelift". Arizona Central. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Timeline (1900 to 1929)". City of Peoria. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  5. 1 2 Gómez, Laura (November 18, 2017). "Peoria's MET academy moving to old Arizona Challenger Space Center". Arizona Central. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Keeping History in the Spotlight: Peoria Adds Important Building to Historic Register". City of Peoria. January 2, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Peoria High School – Student Body". U.S. News & World Report. 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Peoria High School – Test Scores". U.S. News & World Report. 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Peoria High School". U.S. News & World Report. 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Clubs". Peoria Unified. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Marching Band". Peoria Unified. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Timeline (1929 to 1939)". City of Peoria. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
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