- Moreno Valley High School (Angel Fire, New Mexico)
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Moreno Valley High School Location Angel Fire, New Mexico, USA Information Type Public Established 2001 School district Cimarron Director Dr. Jacque Boyd Faculty 11 Number of students 87 Athletics Soccer, Basketball, Snowboarding, Skiing Mascot Timberwolf Colors Blue, black & white Website [1] Moreno Valley High School is a charter high school located in the Angel Fire, New Mexico. Founded by Michael Strong in 2001, Moreno Valley High School is based on the Paideia method. The school’s charter was unanimously renewed by the Cimarron School Board in 2007.
Moreno Valley High School is nationally ranked as the 41st high school in America by the 2008 Newsweek/Washington Post Challenge Index [1] In addition to this, the school’s five year average ACT scores are higher in every reporting category for the reporting period than the state’s scores in the same categories. Students at the school made Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind in every category, for the past three years.
Six Advanced Placement classes are offered on a regular basis and two on an as-needed basis. All Advanced Placement classes are sanctioned by the College Board. One specific Advanced Placement syllabus used by Moreno Valley High School was recognized by the College Board of New Mexico. They are:
- AP Art (as needed)
- AP Calculus (as needed)
- AP Biology
- AP World History
- AP Government
Graduating seniors have gone on to pursue advanced degrees at colleges and universities that include Middlebury College in Vermont, University of Oregon, Bayers College in Ohio, Texas Christian University, Virginia Military Institute, Brigham Young University, Universitiet College Utrecht in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and a World College campus in Florence, Italy.
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- ^ "America’s Top Public High Schools". Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
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