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| Established | 1912 |
| Type | Public |
| Principal | Terry Williams |
| Students | 3,127 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Location | 350 North Arizona Avenue, Chandler, Arizona, United States |
| District | Chandler Unified School District |
| Colors | Royal Blue and White |
| Mascot | Wolves |
| Yearbook | 'El Lobo' |
| Newspaper | 'Wolf Howl' |
| Website | [1] |
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| Location: | 350 N. Arizona Ave. Chandler, Arizona |
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| Built: | 1921 |
| Architect: | Allison & Allison; Bell, Orville A., |
| Architectural style: | Classical Revival, Mission/Spanish Revival |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: | 07000836[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | November 20, 2007 |
Chandler High School is a high school located in Chandler, Arizona, United States. One of the oldest high schools in Arizona, it was founded in 1912, the year in which Chandler was founded and Arizona became a state.
The high school has an active athletic program and has many sports rivalries with other local teams of which the most prominent is the football rivalry with Hamilton High School.
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Chandler High School is renowned for its academics and their offerings of their large catalog of Advanced Placement classes. Aside from being one of the 572 World Schools in the United States (as of January 2008) offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Chandler High School is also the first of only eight high schools in Arizona to offer the International Baccalaureate diploma. Those other International Baccalaureate schools are Tempe High School, Nogales High School, Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ironwood High School in Glendale, Westwood High School in Mesa, along with North Canyon and Barry Goldwater High School in Phoenix.
In the 1982-83 school year and again in the 1986-87 school year, it was honored as a Blue Ribbon school[2].
Chandler High School is also notable for its active and competitive music programs. Chandler High School Chorale was the first American high school to be invited to perform at the 2005 Jilin College of the Arts Summer Music Festival in Changchun, People's Republic of China,[2] and not only once, but twice to perform at the noble Carnegie Hall for a festival, while Chandler High School's Wolf Pack Pride Marching Band competed in the 2005-2006 Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship, placing fifth. The marching band competed again in the 2008-2009 Championship. The Symphonic Band also competed April 2006 in Boston at the Boston Symphony Hall in the Heritage Festival of Gold. The band took fourth.[3] The Symphonic Band competed again in April 2008 at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, taking first. In 2009, the Symphonic Band returned (for its third time) to the Festival of Gold in Los Angeles where it again took first place over groups from across the nation. In 2010, Chandler's Chorale visited the Festival of Gold, taking first as well. Chandler High's Varsity Jazz Ensemble has recently excelled on a local level.
In addition, Chandler's theater department has performed several well-known plays, including from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Outsiders, Miser, Rebel Without a Cause, Footloose, Still Life With Iris, and many more. The Chandler theatre has been to the Central Arizona Acting Festival and many students received Superior. A.P.A.C. (Advanced Pantomime And Characterization), the highest level acting class at Chandler, has performed numerous books for elementary students through Bookends, a program designed to promote literacy, for many years.
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