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Coconino High School (CHS) is a
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located in
Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff ( ), known locally as Flag, is the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 76,831. Flagstaff is the principal city of the Coconino Cou ...
(US). It is part of the
Flagstaff Unified School District The Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) is a K-12 school district for Flagstaff, Arizona area and neighboring areas. The district has approximately 11,500 students and operates 16 schools; including three high schools (9–12), two middle ...
and is one of the district's three high schools. Located at 2801 North Izabel Street, Coconino High School serves students in grades nine through twelve and currently enrolls 1,446 students as of 2012. The school's mascot is the panther.


History

The school first opened its doors in September 1967 to
grades Grade most commonly refers to: * Grading in education, a measurement of a student's performance by educational assessment (e.g. A, pass, etc.) * A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the number of the year a student has reach ...
10- 12. The school's namesake is the name of the county in which it is located,
Coconino County Coconino County is a County (United States), county in the North Central Arizona, North-Central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. Its population was 145,101 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The county seat is Flagstaff, Arizon ...
. The campus was designed by Guirey Srnka & Arnold. Construction was undertaken by Del E. Webb Corporation. Since its founding, the school building has been remodeled twice, once in 1977 and then again in 1989 (when FUSD added ninth graders to its high schools). In the late 1960s the Kinlani Dormitory (now the Flagstaff Bordertown Dormitory), a
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-affiliated dormitory for Native American students, sent some of the boarders to Coconino High.


Neighborhoods served

Coconino High School serves east Flagstaff neighborhoods. The school also serves the northern and eastern outlying suburbs and rural areas nearby, such as Doney Park, Mountain View Ranches, Timberline-Fernwood, the Coconino County portion of Winslow West, and Winona.


Statistics

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Demographics
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Coconino High School has a student to teacher ratio of 31.2 to 1. Eighty-two percent of the school's faculty has ten or more years of teaching experience.


Extracurricular activities


Athletics

Coconino High School also has a host of athletic teams such as (Men's)
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, (Men's and Women's)
Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
, (Men's and Women's)
Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
, (Women's)
Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
, (Men's)
Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
, (Women's)
Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...
, (Men's and Women's)
Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
, (Men's and Women's) Cross Country/
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, Men's
Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...
, and (Men's)
Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
. Coconino High School and
Flagstaff High School Flagstaff High School (FHS) is a secondary school in Flagstaff, Arizona. Flagstaff High School has been opened to the public since 1923. FHS is a four-year public high school of approximately 1,500 students. The students are primarily of five eth ...
have had a
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since the school opened. The two schools play each other in
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
at the City Championship game (located at
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's
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), which is the last game of the regular season for both schools.


Clubs

Coconino High School maintains a variety of clubs for students to participate in. Activities offered include the Coconino High School
Student Council A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...
,
SkillsUSA SkillsUSA is a United States career and technical student organization serving more than 395,000 high school, college and middle school students and professional members enrolled in training programs in trade, technical and skilled service oc ...
,
Drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
Club, Asian Cultural Club, the Coconino High School chapter of the
National Honor Society The National Honor Society (NHS) is one of the oldest, largest, and most widely recognized cocurricular student organizations in American high schools, with 1.4 million members. The purpose of the NHS is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to ...
, and the Native American Club. Coconino High School is also home to
FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition operated by ''FIRST''®. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work to build robots capable of competing in that year's game. Robots c ...
Team 2486 "CocoNuts", the first and only FRC team in Flagstaff, AZ. They have garnered acclaim by qualifying for the
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every year since their establishment in the 2007–08 school year, as well as winning the highly prestigious FIRST Impact Award and being inducted into the FIRST Hall of Fame at the 2024 Championship. The school hosts an Army Junior ROTC battalion, which it picked up from the closed Sinagua High School. Coconino High School is known prominently in the community for its one-of-a-kind Brawl Stars Club. For those who aren’t interested in things like robotics or
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, the Brawl Stars Club is a fun place to hang out, eat lunch, and play
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. As of right now the resident president is ShrekWazowski (2025)


Performing arts

CHS has several performing arts programs:
Marching Band A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who play while marching. Historically they were used in armed forces and many marching bands remain military bands. Others are still associated with military units or emulate a military sty ...
(during the football season)/
Symphonic Band A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion famil ...
(after football season), two-tiered
Choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...
,
Orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...
, and the Drama Club.


Band

The Coconino High School Band (both marching and concert) are award-winning; consistently receiving ratings: Superior to Superior with Distinction at
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and symphonic band competitions over
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,
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, and
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. In addition, many band members audition for th
Northwest Region AMEA Honor Band
of which a majority are accepted. Of those, several students audition for the Arizona Music Educators Association All-State Honor Band.


Coconino Institute of Technology

The Coconino Institute of Technology (CIT) is a three-year-long accelerated science and technology program (sometimes accredited as a magnet school) within Coconino High School. Students who enter the CIT program commit to attaining the following goals by graduation: achieving an ACT score of at least 29 or an SAT score of at least 1300 (Critical reading and mathematics sections), engaging in four years of career exploration through partnerships with current industry professionals and institutions of higher learning, completing at least five college or university applications, completing at least one scholarship application, and gaining acceptance into a college or university. The CIT curriculum allows students to complete all three major sciences required for Arizona public university admission at a pre-AP (honors) level within two years (Physics, Biology, and Chemistry). CIT students also complete an in-depth semester long project their senior fall semester on a topic of their choice.Coconino Institute of Technology Brochure
Though CIT is a three-year program, students may choose to not continue. When a student does make this decision, they may not re-enter into the program.


Acceptance into CIT

Before entering high school, prospective students must apply; acceptance into CIT is based upon an entrance assessment (math), middle school GPA, teacher recommendations, and a writing sample completed at the time of testing. The entrance test is conducted every year in mid-April, however only incoming Freshmen may apply.


Current CIT three-year schedule

The CIT schedule is continuously evolving. This is the current four-year schedule for 2015 graduates.


Freshman year

* Pre-AP Physics * Pre-AP Biology * Pre-AP Engineering I


Sophomore year

* Pre-AP Chemistry * Pre-AP Engineering II


Junior year

* Academic Symposium (spring semester) Research Project (fall semester)


Notable alumni

* * * * Avery Weems - American baseball player (born 1997)


Other

Coconino High School is also home to the 1999 National Science Teacher of the Year, David Thompson, who taught physics at Coconino High School while being a master teacher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CTSL) at Northern Arizona University.NAU CTSL
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CTSL – Faculty and Staff – Dave Thompson
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References

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