Valencia High School (Los Lunas, New Mexico)

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Valencia High School
Image:Valencia_High_NM_jaguars.png
Location
Los Lunas, NM, USA
Information
Locale Valencia County
Principal Mario Zunina
Students approx. 350 (freshmen)
Type Public High School
Grades 9 to 12
Mascot Jaguars
Established founded 2006
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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 opened in Fall 2006 with its first freshmen class.

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

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