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. The campus is located at 4612 North 28th Street, northeast of downtown

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, United States. Camelback's enrollment is just over 2,200 students, over 75 percent of whom are Hispanic. The school predominantly serves students from partner elementary districts Balsz, Creighton, Madison and Wilson. During the 2023-2024 school year, Camelback was named a National Demonstration School for the Center for High School Success.

History

Camelback was designed by a group of noted local architects consisting of Lescher & Mahoney, Edward L. Varney, H. H. Green and

John Sing Tang John Sing Tang (1913 – December 3, 1987) was a modernist architect from Arizona. He worked in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and designed many homes in the Arcadia area in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first Chinese-American architect lice ...

with Harold Ekman and Fred M. Guirey as consultant and supervising architects. The construction contract to build the school was awarded to Mardian Construction Co. The campus was renovated in 2007 with many of the outdated original buildings demolished and replaced with new buildings. Architectural Resource Team drew up the planes for the renovation. Phoenix City Council District 6 candidate *

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– US House of Representatives * Neal Smith – drummer for band

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– writer, producer * Melody Thornton – singer *

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Trivia

Camelback High School is referenced in the song "Alma Mater" by

, whose drummer Neal Smith graduated from there.

References

External links

Camelback High School

Phoenix Union High School District website

Arizona Department of Education School Report Card

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