- Chandler High School (Chandler, Arizona)
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Chandler High School 
Established 1912 Type Public Principal Terry Williams Students 3,127 Grades 9-12 Location 350 North Arizona Avenue,
Chandler, Arizona, United StatesCoordinates 33°18′32″N 111°50′35″W / 33.308906°N 111.843143°WCoordinates: 33°18′32″N 111°50′35″W / 33.308906°N 111.843143°W District Chandler Unified School District Colors Royal Blue and White Mascot Wolves Yearbook 'El Lobo' Newspaper 'Wolf Howl' Website [1] 
The "Old Main" buildings at the Chandler HS CampusChandler High School
Location: 350 N. Arizona Ave.
Chandler, ArizonaCoordinates: 33°18′30″N 111°50′32″W / 33.30833°N 111.84222°WCoordinates: 33°18′30″N 111°50′32″W / 33.30833°N 111.84222°W Built: 1921 Architect: Allison & Allison; Bell, Orville A., Architectural style: Classical Revival, Mission/Spanish Revival Governing body: Local NRHP Reference#: 07000836[1] Added to NRHP: November 20, 2007 Chandler High School is a high school located in Chandler, Arizona, United States. One of the oldest high schools in Arizona, it was founded in 1912, the year in which Chandler was founded and Arizona became a state.
The high school has an active athletic program and has many sports rivalries with other local teams of which the most prominent is the football rivalry with Hamilton High School.
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Chandler High School is renowned for its academics and their offerings of their large catalog of Advanced Placement classes. Aside from being one of the 572 World Schools in the United States (as of January 2008) offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Chandler High School is also the first of only eight high schools in Arizona to offer the International Baccalaureate diploma. Those other International Baccalaureate schools are Tempe High School, Nogales High School, Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ironwood High School in Glendale, Westwood High School in Mesa, along with North Canyon and Barry Goldwater High School in Phoenix.
Chandler High School is also notable for its active and competitive music programs. Chandler High School Chorale was the first American high school to be invited to perform at the 2005 Jilin College of the Arts Summer Music Festival in Changchun, People's Republic of China,[2] and not only once, but twice to perform at the noble Carnegie Hall for a festival, while Chandler High School's Wolf Pack Pride Marching Band competed in the 2005-2006 Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship, placing fifth. The marching band competed again in the 2008-2009 Championship. The Symphonic Band also competed April 2006 in Boston at the Boston Symphony Hall in the Heritage Festival of Gold. The band took fourth.[3] The Symphonic Band competed again in April 2008 at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, taking first. In 2009, the Symphonic Band returned (for its third time) to the Festival of Gold in Los Angeles where it again took first place over groups from across the nation. In 2010, Chandler's Chorale visited the Festival of Gold, taking first as well. Chandler High's Varsity Jazz Ensemble has recently excelled on a local level.
In addition, Chandler's theater department has performed several well-known plays, including from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Outsiders, Miser, Rebel Without a Cause, Footloose, Still Life With Iris, and many more. The Chandler theatre has been to the Central Arizona Acting Festival and many students received Superior. A.P.A.C. (Advanced Pantomime And Characterization), the highest level acting class at Chandler, has performed numerous books for elementary students through Bookends, a program designed to promote literacy, for many years.
Trivia
- Members of the 1988 graduating class were chosen to reunite on TV Land's show High School Reunion season 2.
Notable alumni
- Adam Archuleta, former first round pick of the St. Louis Rams.
- Dave Van Gorder, former Cincinnati Reds and Baltimore Orioles catcher
- Alexa Havins, actress, Rescue Me, All My Children and When in Rome
- Cody Ransom, professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Gordon Rule, former Green Bay Packers defensive back
- Lindsay Taylor, former Phoenix Mercury center currently playing for AZS Gorzow (Poland)
- Lawrence Westbrook, former college basketball player for the Minnesota Golden Gophers
- Eddie Basha, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Bashas', Inc.
- James S. Wall, Bishop of Gallup.
- Terrell Suggs, Baltimore Ravens linebacker (attended but did not graduate)
- Brenda Novak, Bestselling New York Times Author
- Cameron Jordan, 2011 First Round Pick of the New Orleans Saints
- Derrick Richardson Current United Football League (2009) player for the Florida Tuskers
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
External links
- Chandler High School Official Website
- School report card from the Arizona Department of Education
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