Chinle High School

Chinle High School
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Location
Chinle, Arizona
Information
School type	Public high school
School district	Chinle Unified School District
Principal	Doug Clauschee
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,099 students (Oct. 2010)
Color(s)	Vegas gold, black
Mascot	Wildcats
Website	Chinle High School

Chinle High School is a high school (grades 9 to 12) in Chinle, an unincorporated area of Apache County, Arizona, United States.

The school is the only high school in the Chinle Unified School District, and all of the district's elementary and middle schools feed into it. Chinle High School serves several unincorporated areas in Apache County, including Chinle, Lukachukai, Many Farms, Rough Rock, Tsaile, and some areas considered to be Nazlini. The areas the school serves are within the Navajo Nation.

In 2005, Chinle High School had 1,155 students and 75 teachers; as of 1 October 2010, 1,099 students are enrolled.^[1] 99% of the students are Native Americans, mainly Navajo.

The school's basketball teams play in the 7,000-seat Wildcat Den,^[2] Arizona's largest high school sports arena. It was built in 2006 at a cost of $23 million and called by The Arizona Republic sports columnist Richard Obert as "the best high school arena in Arizona".^[3] It is also tied for the 15th-largest high school basketball gymnasium in the United States; its capacity is large enough to fit Arizona's two largest high schools (Red Mountain High School and Hamilton High School) plus Rock Point Community School. Before playing in the Wildcat Den, the teams played at the 1,000-seat Chinle Community Center.

The school, like others in the district, has been troubled by gang activity. In 2003, a display of weapons confiscated from students included baseball bats, knives, nunchucks and brass knuckles.^[4]

See also

	Arizona portal
	Schools portal

• List of high schools in Arizona

References

1. ^ Records provided to the Arizona Interscholastic Association
2. ^ http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/Richardobert/73921
3. ^ http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/Richardobert/114601
4. ^ www.gallupindependent.com

External links

• Chinle High School
• schooltree

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