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Santa Rita High School

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
James Palacios

Color(s)
  
Green and gold

Phone
  
+1 520-731-7500

Founded
  
1969

Established
  
1969

Number of students
  
over 900 students

Website
  
Santa Rita High School

Mascot
  
Eagle

Address
  
3951 S Pantano Rd, Tucson, AZ 85730, USA

District
  
Tucson Unified School District

Similar
  
Desert View High School, Palo Verde High Magnet S, Sabino High School, Sunnyside High School, Amphithe High School b

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Santa Rita High School is located in Groves Lincoln Park, Tucson, Arizona. The school was established in 1969. It was named after the Santa Rita Mountains, one of the mountain ranges surrounding the Tucson valley. The campus has three main two story classroom buildings where most classes are held. The school educates about 950 students from grades 9 to 12. Graduating classes usually consist of 300 students.

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In the 1984-85 school year, it was honored as a Blue Ribbon school.

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Campus

Most classes are held in the one, two, and three hundred buildings with few like Band, Choir, Adv. Culinary Arts, Welding, Construction, Automotive Technology, and Drama are held in other buildings. Vocational programs are held in the northernmost building of the campus.

Recently Santa Rita has expanded by adding a secondary, more current gymnasium to their campus.

Football

In the summer of 2007 it was announced that Santa Rita would be hiring a new football coach, Jeff Scurran. After a 0-10 2006-2007 season, the Eagles underwent a radical transformation to an 11-2 team, falling one game short of the championship game. For the next two seasons, the Eagles went to the title game but came up short. The 2008-2009 team had a record of 12-2 and lost to the defending champions from Notre Dame Preparatory High School by a score of 30-26. The 2009-2010 team returned to the state championship with a record of 11-3, but they lost in the coach's final game at the school as Cactus High School would shut them out 14-0.

Basketball

In 2009-2010 school year the Eagles won the state championship for 4A-II boys' basketball.

Notable alumni

  • Anthony Sanders, Former MLB player (Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners)
  • Tim Webber, 1981 Alum, Former FREAK, aka-Mit Rebbew; worked on Space Shuttle, Stealth Bomber, Hubble Telescope (High Resolution Spectograph), CRRES Satellite (Radiation Effects), RME Satellite (Laser Communication & High Precision Optical Pointing for USAF); Metro State University of Denver Alum (with Honors); Appx 20 yrs in the Counseling, Social Work, and Human Services field in a variety of settings (residential home for children, maximum security prison, in-patient psychiatric hospital, City & County of Denver Human Services); husband, and, last, but most importantly, father.
  • References

    Santa Rita High School Wikipedia