Santa Rita High School
| Santa Rita High School | |
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| Location | |
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Tucson, Arizona United States | |
| Coordinates | 32°10′34″N 110°49′21″W / 32.176128°N 110.822543°WCoordinates: 32°10′34″N 110°49′21″W / 32.176128°N 110.822543°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1969 |
| School district | Tucson USD |
| Principal | James Palacios |
| Number of students | over 900 students[1] |
| Color(s) | Green and gold |
| Mascot | Eagle |
| Website | Santa Rita High School |
Santa Rita High School is located in Groves Lincoln Park, Tucson, Arizona. The school was established in 1969. It was named after the Santa Rita Mountains, one of the mountain ranges surrounding the Tucson valley. The campus has three main two story classroom buildings where most classes are held. The school educates about 950 students from grades 9 to 12. Graduating classes usually consist of 300 students.
In the 1984-85 school year, it was honored as a Blue Ribbon school.[2]
Campus
Most classes are held in the one, two, and three hundred buildings with few like Band, Choir, Adv. Culinary Arts, Welding, Construction, Automotive Technology, and Drama are held in other buildings. Vocational programs are held in the northernmost building of the campus.
Recently Santa Rita has expanded by adding a secondary, more current gymnasium to their campus.
Athletics
Football
In the summer of 2007 it was announced that Santa Rita would be hiring a new football coach, Jeff Scurran. After a 0-10 2006-2007 season, the Eagles underwent a radical transformation to an 11-2 team, falling one game short of the championship game. For the next two seasons, the Eagles went to the title game but came up short. the 2008-2009 team is considered the best under Scurran; it had a record of 12-2 and lost to the defending champions from Notre Dame Preparatory High School by a score of 30-26. The 2009-2010 team would make it back to the state championship going 11-3, but they would fall short again in Scurran's final game at the school as Cactus High School would shut them out 14-0. Santa Rita football has not had a winning season since.
Basketball
In 2009-2010 school year the Eagles won the state championship for 4A-II boys' basketball.
Notable alumni
- Anthony Sanders, Former MLB player (Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners)
- Tim Webber, 1981 Alum, Former FREAK, aka-Mit Rebbew; worked on Space Shuttle, Stealth Bomber, Hubble Telescope (High Resolution Spectograph), CRRES Satellite (Radiation Effects), RME Satellite (Laser Communication & High Precision Optical Pointing for USAF); Metro State University of Denver Alum (with Honors); Appx 20 yrs in the Counseling, Social Work, and Human Services field in a variety of settings (residential home for children, maximum security prison, in-patient psychiatric hospital, City & County of Denver Human Services); husband, and, last, but most importantly, father.