Sunnyside High School (Tucson, Arizona)

Sunnyside High School

Home Of The Fighting Blue Devils
Address
1725 East Bilby Road
Tucson, Arizona, 85706
United States
Coordinates 32°08′34″N 110°56′41″W / 32.142876°N 110.944829°W / 32.142876; -110.944829Coordinates: 32°08′34″N 110°56′41″W / 32.142876°N 110.944829°W / 32.142876; -110.944829
Information
School type Public
Established 1955
School district Sunnyside Unified School District #12
CEEB Code 030525
Principal Adriana Molina
Teaching staff 121 [1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 2,318 (October 1, 2012)[2]
School color(s) Royal blue and white
Fight song O Sunnyside!
Mascot Blue Devil
Rival Salpointe Catholic High School
Newspaper The Devillaire
Website www.susd12.org/school/sunnyside-high-school

Sunnyside High School, opened in 1955, is home to two thousand students located on the south side of Tucson, Arizona. Sunnyside offers a wide variety of extracurricular programs, advanced placement courses, and specialized career and technical training programs. It is a part of the Sunnyside Unified School District.

History

Sunnyside High School opened in 1955 with 9th and 10th grade classes.[3]

The original mascot logo for Sunnyside used a variation of Arizona State University's Sparky mascot. The school was forced to change after the university learned of this use when Sunnyside played a championship game at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium.[4]

Campus

Sunnyside High School is located on the south side of Tucson, Arizona.

Curriculum

There is a widespread of curriculum that is offered at Sunnyside High School.

Departments of Instruction

Sunnyside High School offers these courses either for class credits, or elective credit:

Courses or college credit

Below are courses available to students, for both high-school:

Academics and enhanced courses

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

Sunnyside High School is a member of the Arizona Interscholastic Association and is classed in its 5A conference.[5] A wrestling powerhouse in Arizona, Sunnyside has won 30 state championships (14 in a row, 1998-2011). It lost a dual-meet December 12, 2015, where Green Valley (NV) snapped a 314 win streak stretching from 1999 to then, and only has lost ten since 1969.[6][7] The teams are known as the Sunnyside Blue Devils. Athletic teams are fielded in boys volleyball, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, and swimming.

The varsity football team was featured on the Great American Rivalries Series in 2009 against Salpointe Catholic High School.

Arizona State Championship titles

Music

There are various musical performing groups at Sunnyside.

Performing groups as well as their director(s):

The Pride of Sunnyside Marching Band

The Pride of Sunnyside
Logo Blue Devil, Cursive "S"
School Sunnyside High School
Founded 1950
Director Rusty Ogren
Uniform Black shoes, blue pants, and White Jackets with Cursive S, Braids, and Hats with White Plumes

History

Recent directors

Recent field shows

Under Alli Coyle:

Under Scott Matlick:

Under Matthew Hoolsema:

Under Armando Salas:

Under Rusty Ogren:

Student groups

  • Academic Decathlon
  • Astronomy
  • Blue Devil Dancers
  • Blue Devil Images
  • Blue Devil News
  • Cafe Diablo
  • Chess Club
  • DECA
  • Drama/Thespians
  • El Diablo
  • Folklorico
  • Four Feathers Club
  • French Club
  • Fashion design
  • Health Care Tech

  • Hero Club
  • Honors Academy
  • Jobs for America's Graduates
  • MASCC
  • Mariachi
  • MECHA Club
  • MESA
  • National Honor Art Club
  • Photography Club
  • Pride of Sunnyside marching band
  • National Honor Society
  • NEOS Teatro
  • Noche de las Estrellas
  • Peer Advisor
  • Photography
  • Poetry Club

  • P.R.I.S.M. (Gay–straight alliance)
  • Southern Arizona Border Health Careers Opportunity Program
  • Spanish
  • Teenage Parent Program (T.A.P.P.)
  • Teachers Of Tomorrow
  • Tri-M
  • VICA
  • Video Production
  • Wildcat Society
  • Writing Devils
  • Youth Alive

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Two faculty members have been recognized as Arizona Teacher of the Year, Marguerite Johnson Caldwell in 1983 and Rich Mayorga in 2003.[11]

See also

References

  1. Kalaitzdis, Konstantinos (10 January 2008). "Sunnyside district gets OK for new high school". Tucson Citizen.
  2. AIA AIA 2012 enrollment figures
  3. "Sunnyside High celebrates its 50th year". Arizona Daily Star. 20 October 2005.
  4. Zeiger, Dan. "University logos a big part of E.V. high school sports." The East Valley Tribune 16 September 2010.
  5. Sunnyside High School
  6. 1 2 Vanderson, Jessie (15 February 2008). "It's 11 in a row for Sunnyside". Tucson Citizen.
  7. http://azstarnet.com/sports/article_84a3329a-fb4e-5055-9508-d4c1abc06773.html
  8. "Local sports scene had its thrills, spills". Arizona Daily Star. 25 December 1993. Dwight Rees, Sunnyside High School. The Blue Devils not only won the state 4A basketball championship, but they went undefeated at 29-0, the first Tucson ...
  9. "The Skinny (column)". Tucson Weekly. 13 January 2000. Raul Grijalva, known as Ralph while he was at Sunnyside High School, has led a truly charmed life....
  10. Kalaitzidis, Konstantinos (31 May 2007). "New O’odham chairman wants to do business". Tucson Citizen. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  11. "Past Teachers of the Year". Arizona Educational Foundation.

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