Pueblo County High School
| Pueblo County High School | |
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Fighting Hornet of Pueblo County High
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1050 Lane 35 Pueblo, Colorado United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°14′47″N 104°28′04″W / 38.2465°N 104.4677°WCoordinates: 38°14′47″N 104°28′04″W / 38.2465°N 104.4677°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public School |
| Motto | "Small School Environment with Big School Opportunities" |
| Established | 1953 |
| School district | Pueblo County School District 70 |
| Principal | Brian Dilka |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 899 Students |
| Color(s) | Green and gold |
| Athletics | League 3A-4 South Central, Division 3A-4A |
| Mascot | Hornet |
| Student-Teacher Ratio | 21:1 |
| Website | http://pch.district70.org/ |
Pueblo County High School is a four-year public high school in Vineland, an unincorporated area in Pueblo County, Colorado, near Pueblo. It is a part of the Pueblo County School District 70. The school's current mascot is the fighting Hornet, with school colors green and gold. Students have access to a variety of different clubs and extracurricular activities, as well as a highly respected program referred to as the School of Engineering and Biomedical Science (SEBS). Pueblo County High School offers courses for all academic levels, as well as the foreign languages of Spanish and Italian.
Pueblo County High School has recently finished new building renovations due to the Bond issue of 2012. The construction included a new Arts Department, Auxiliary Gym, and a relocated main office for staff.
In the early 1950's it was decided by the School Board to build Pueblo County High School as a merging school. Students from Pleasant View, Vineland, Avondale, and Boone enrolled to attend Pueblo County High School in the fall of 1953, where they took up Pueblo County High School's new colors and mascot. A school-wide vote was cast to select the mascot, and a pair of colors. The selected mascot was a Hornet, the colors chosen were green and gold.
While the school opened as a legal Senior High school, construction of the building was still in progress, leaving many classrooms unavailable. Students and teachers took learning to the grass, boiler rooms, or inside buses as an alternative. Originally, the location in which Pueblo County High School was built was used as farmland and was tended as such. Harvest time and planting season respectively were the most important times of the year for Pueblo in that era, which caused many students to miss months of school, as Harvesting and Planting was more of a priority.
Like the traditional American school, Pueblo County High School has a current principal, as well as many predecessors of which have their own private wall of fame, featuring their faces. There has only been one female principal: Terrie Tafoya (2010–2016).
In the 1970s Pueblo County High School was booming with roughly 1400 students. The student body was so large that the campus needed to be expanded. This Bond Project, originating in 1977, allowed construction of a pool, auditorium, original stadium, and another building containing English and foreign language classrooms.
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