Valencia High School (Los Lunas, New Mexico)

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Valencia High School

Established	founded 2006
School type	Public High School
Locale	Valencia County
Grades	9 to 12
Principal	Mario Zunina
Location	Los Lunas, NM, USA
Students	approx. 350 (freshmen)
Colors	Red, Teal, Silver
Mascot	Jaguars
Website	http://www.llschools.net

For other schools with the same name, see Valencia High School.

Valencia High School is a high school (grades 9 - 12) currently under construction in Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico. Formerly known as the "Los Lunas Career Academy", the high school will serve students on the east side of the Rio Grande with the exception being students who attended Ann Parish Elementary School. The school campus was founded in 2000 by Claire Enton under the name of "Los Lunas Career Academy," then a satellite campus of the only high school in Los Lunas, Los Lunas High School. The site adopted the name of Valencia High School shortly after the district re-zoned and create Los Lunas' second formal high school in 2005. Mario Zuniga is the first principal of the newly renamed campus, Valencia High School. Mr. Zuniga is currently heading the 'Principal Design Team' for the school. Additions to the campus are being constructed using $6.3 million from the Public Schools Capital Outlay Commission.

The school mascot is the jaguar, and official school colors are: turquoise, red and silver.

The school is scheduled to open in Fall 2006 with its first freshmen class.

Valencia High School's west side rival will be Los Lunas High School.