Palmer High School (Colorado)
| General William J. Palmer High School | |
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| Location | |
| 301 North Nevada Avenue Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
| Coordinates | 38°50′20″N 104°49′12″W / 38.839°N 104.820°WCoordinates: 38°50′20″N 104°49′12″W / 38.839°N 104.820°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public Secondary |
| Motto | A Tradition of Excellence |
| Established | 1875 |
| School district | Colorado Springs School District 11 |
| Principal | Lara Disney |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 1,976 students |
| Color(s) | Brown and white |
| Mascot | Terrors |
| Affiliation | Western Association of Schools and Colleges |
| Nickname | Terrors |
| Newspaper | The Lever |
| Yearbook | Terror Trail |
| TV | Terror TV |
| Website | Palmer.d11.org |
This article is about the high school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the high school located in Monument, Colorado, see Lewis-Palmer High School.
General William J. Palmer High School is a secondary school located in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. The school has a student population of approximately 2,000 students, and attracts enrollment from all over the city. The flagship high school of School District 11, Palmer has the oldest International Baccalaureate (IB) program in the area, founded in 1991.
Palmer High School is located at 301 North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs. The present building was built by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. Originally named Colorado Springs High School, Palmer High School was renamed in 1959 after the city's founder, General William Jackson Palmer. At that date, the city had expanded enough to warrant the building of a second high school, Roy J. Wasson High School.
In 1945, a Native American student, Don Willis, designed Eaglebeak, a caricature of a fictitious Indian chieftain, and the school's teams became the Terrors. In 1985 a local political hopeful criticized the mascot as racist, making Palmer one of the first cases of controversy over a Native American mascot in the United States. Despite the fact that the politician, having lost the election, later publicly apologized to the student body and retracted the charge of racism, the damage was done and Eaglebeak was not to return. In the following years, Palmer experimented with a variety of mascots, to include a two-month flirtation with the Tasmanian devil from Warner Brothers, which nearly led to a lawsuit.
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