Centennial High School (Las Cruces, New Mexico)

Centennial High School is the newest public high school in the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico and serves approximately 1,400 students in grades 9-12.

Construction on the school began in September of 2009, was completed and opened for the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year. The first graduation commencement for Centennial High School was held in the Spring of 2014 including both a valedictorian and a salutatorian.

The campus includes a personal office for each faculty member; an Autism Student Center which is utilized by all the other schools in the district; and a cyber-café, which is open to students during non-academic hours. Each grade level is assigned its own building cluster within the campus and has a designated lunch eating area. While sophomores, juniors, and seniors are fully integrated, freshmen are "segregated" to slowly integrate each student to the school campus, for safety concerns, and to prevent hazing and bullying.

The school employs eighty-two instructors, and has adopted the stacked or blended-block class scheduling format. Students take odd period courses on Mondays and Wednesdays, even period courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and all classes on Fridays (classes on Fridays are reduced in time length). In 2013, Centennial teacher Nancy Hollingsworth was awarded Las Cruces Public Schools' "Teacher of the Year Award". Centennial High School is currently in the process of installing a Marine Corps JROTC program, scheduled to begin in 2015.

The mascot for the school is the Hawks, chosen by a popular vote of community members who were polled as to what they thought the mascot should be. The namesake of the school is due to its opening coinciding with the 100-year anniversary of New Mexico’s statehood on January 6, 1912. The school colors are the yellow and red of the Flag of New Mexico.

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External links

• Official website