Los Lunas High School
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| Los Lunas High School | |
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| Established | 1926 |
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| School type | Public High School |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Principal | Dr. Dan Webb |
| Asst. Officials | Julie Smith Brian Baca Robbie Stevens |
| Location | Los Lunas, NM, USA |
| Students | 2217 |
| Colors | Royal Blue, Orange |
| Mascot | Tiger |
| Coordinators | Dusty Price (Freshmen) |
| Website | http://www.llschools.net/schools/Llhs/index.html |
Los Lunas High School is a high school (grades 9 - 12) in Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico. In 2003 it had some 2,383 students. The school's student count on Friday, August 18, 2006 was 2217.
Los Lunas High School was founded in 1926 as "Solomon Luna High School". Named for Solomon Luna, the most prominent political and financial leader of the area at the time, the school was created to ease travel to Belen High School. Solomon Luna High School was consolidated into the Los Lunas Public Schools in 1945 and then renamed to "Los Lunas High School".
The old Soloman Luna High School building still stands and is the current the administration building of Los Lunas Middle School. An engraving above the doors continues to read "Soloman Luna High School".
Los Lunas High School is known throughout the area for its emphasis on Athletics, and more recently, on Performing Arts.
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[edit] Principal
Los Lunas High school recently acquired a new principal for the 2006-2007 academic school year. Dr. Dan Webb came from Pasadena, CA, and with the new addition was brought lots of changes to the school. New rules stating that all electronic device owned by students are not allowed brought up much outcry.
[edit] Schedule
Los Lunas High School currently uses a modified block schedule. Within this new schedule, any particular student can have up to 8 classes in one day. As block scheduling works with longer, yet fewer classes in the day, the new schedule was modified, where some classes are now half-blocks and last year-round. The change was brought on along with the critisim of the block scheduling already implemented, stating that some courses need to be year long. Some of the courses now offered as half-blocks are core classes such as MAth, English, Science and other various electives including Spanish and Yearbook.
[edit] Performing Arts
The Los Lunas High School Tiger Band received 3rd place and outstanding auxiliary at the 2003 NM Pageant of Bands in Albuquerque, NM. The bands also received 10th place in finals competition and 7th place in preliminary competition at the 2004 NMSU Tournament of Bands; this was the first time the band placed in the top 10 at this event.
[edit] Sports
In 2004 the Football team toppled the top ranked Las Cruces Bull-Dawgs for the first time.
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