La Cueva High School

La Cueva High School
La Cueva High School
Address
7801 Wilshire Ave. NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87122 United States
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1986
Principal	Dana Lee
Enrollment	2,226
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Navy Blue      Silver      White
Athletics conference	NMAA, 6A Dist. 2
Mascot	Bear
Rival	Eldorado High School
Website	lacueva.aps.edu

La Cueva High School is a public high school located in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico within the Albuquerque Public Schools District. Its mascot is the Bears. The La Cueva feeder schools include Desert Ridge, Madison, and Eisenhower middle schools, Dennis Chavez, Double Eagle, E. G. Ross, Hubert Humphrey, and North Star elementary schools. La Cueva opened in 1986 with 1200 students.

The NMPED (New Mexico Public Education department) replaced the No Child Left Behind Act and AYP testing with a new school grading formula, which took effect for the 2010-11 school years. The grade is calculated using many forms of testing, and includes graduation rates.

La Cueva has been a New Mexico Exemplary School for the past three years, and the only APS high school to meet AYP. According to www.greatschools.net, the La Cueva is one of few high schools in the state to receive a GreatSchools rating of 10 of 10. The website also indicates school standardized test scores are the highest of any high school in the city. La Cueva has been recognized nationally by Redbook magazine as a "School of Excellence" and offers a variety of practical, fine arts, social studies courses, and numerous math and science classes. La Cueva's Academic Decathlon team has won multiple state championships and been recognized for excellence with outstanding performances at the national level. The JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society) TEAMS teams have been state champions every year since 1992.DECA: Association of Marketing Students program has had many students place in national marketing competitions. The Model United Nations program has won 8 state first places and finished 3rd in the National Model UN program. Frances Gruette, a teacher of AP Calculus AB, was awarded one of the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement.