Pueblo Magnet High School
| Pueblo Magnet High School | |
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| Address | |
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3500 South 12th Avenue, Sunset Villa Tucson, AZ USA |
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| Coordinates | 32°11′03″N 110°58′51″W / 32.18417°N 110.98083°WCoordinates: 32°11′03″N 110°58′51″W / 32.18417°N 110.98083°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public secondary (U.S.) |
| Motto | ¡Sí Se Puede!, Yes, it can be done! |
| Established | 1956 |
| Oversight | Tucson Unified School District |
| Principal | Dr. Augustine Romero |
| Faculty | 150 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,694 (October 1, 2012) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue and Columbia Blue |
| Mascot | Warriors |
| Newspaper | El Guerrero |
| Yearbook | El Dorado |
| Website | [1] |
Pueblo Magnet High School is a magnet high school serving Tucson, Arizona since 1956. It is a school in the Tucson Unified School District, the largest school district in Tucson.
Pueblo is the only high school in Tucson that owns a radio station, KWXL-LP.
The year was 1956, two months before the end of the school year. This long-awaited moment would see the opening of a new school for 900 students. The new school would, for the time being, mark the end of attending classes on double sessions at Tucson High and Roskruge Junior High Schools. “We went down there with freshmen, sophomores and juniors,” Principal Brooks would later recall. The freshmen would be the first group of students to spend four years at Pueblo, becoming the graduating class of 1959.
Over the next several years, several changes to the original facility would occur at Pueblo. One of which was a swimming pool in 1961, “the first in a District 1 school”, and a 2000-seat stadium. The relief from double sessions and an overcrowded school was short lived. By the start of the 1963 school year, the Pueblo student newspaper, El Guerrero declared that Pueblo was “Knee Deep in People.” The school, originally built for a capacity of 1,800 students, had, by this time an active enrollment of 2,489 students.
The rapid growth of Tucson’s Southside and the failure of two high school bond issues proposed by the school board were cited by Principal Brooks as key factors. It would be another two years before the will of citizens would provide relief. On the first day of school however, those students with cars may have been less concerned about the crowded conditions. Eager to return to Pueblo, see old friends, and of course study, they found that they could not “hot rod” into the parking lot as speed trap mounds had been strategically placed to calm the flow of traffic. In his welcoming speech to students, which included greetings to two students from Tokyo, Student Body President Rafael Arvizu likely explained the reason for the aggravating “bumps” in the parking lot.
Located on the south side of Tucson, Pueblo was the first new high school to be built in Tucson School District 1. Preparations for the eventual transition from Tucson High and Roskruge had begun the previous year. Principal Brooks recalled, “Even though we weren’t down at Pueblo, we started our athletic programs, clubs were organized, homerooms and counselors were identified for students and lunch periods for students were assigned.” In essence, even before it opened its doors students were invited to be a part of the Pueblo community.
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