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Preston High School (Idaho)

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Jeff Lords

Enrollment
  
636

Phone
  
+1 208-852-0280

Number of students
  
636

Faculty
  
37

School district
  
Preston S.D. (#201)

Grades
  
9–12

Athletics
  
IHSAA Class 4A

District
  
Preston Joint District

Mascot
  
Indian

Colors
  
White, Blue, Gold

Preston High School (Idaho)

Address
  
151 E 2nd S, Preston, ID 83263, USA

Preston High School is a four-year public secondary school in Preston, Idaho, the only traditional high school in the Preston School District #201. The school colors are blue, white, and gold and the mascot is an Indian.

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PHS was one of the filming locations for the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite, where the director Jared Hess graduated in 1997.

Athletics

Preston competes in athletics in IHSAA Class 4A in the Great Basin (East) Conference with Pocatello and Century of Pocatello. Longtime in Class A-2 and its successor 3A, Preston moved up to 4A in 2004.

State titles

Boys

  • Football (1): fall (A-2, now 3A) 1993 (official with introduction of A-2 playoffs, fall 1978)
  • (unofficial poll titles - 0) (poll introduced in 1963, through 1977)
  • Cross Country (4): fall (A-2, now 3A) 1994, 2000; (3A) 2001, 2002 (introduced in 1964)
  • Basketball (7): (A, now 5A) 1946; (A-2, now 3A) 1968, 1989, 1990; (3A) 2001, 2003 (4A) 2016
  • Wrestling (1): (A-2, now 3A) 1979 (introduced in 1958)

    • Girls

  • Cross Country (4): fall (A-2, now 3A) 1994, 2000; (3A) 2001; (4A) 2008 (introduced in 1974)
  • Soccer (1): fall (4A) 2015 (introduced in 2000)
  • Volleyball (5): fall (A-2, now 3A) 1981, 1983, 1994, 1995; (3A) 2002 (introduced in 1976)
  • Basketball (1): (A-2, now 3A) 1986 (introduced in 1976)

    • References

    Preston High School (Idaho) Wikipedia
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