La Cueva High School
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| La Cueva High School | |
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| 7801 Wilshire Ave. NE Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87122 United States |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1986 |
| Principal | Todd Resch |
| Vice principal | Shelly Green Phil Ewing Andrea Felts-Pargas |
| Enrollment | 2,226 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue Silver White |
| Athletics conference | NMAA, AAAAA Dist. 2 |
| Mascot | Bear |
| Rival | Eldorado High School Sandia High School |
| Website | www.lacuevabears.com |
La Cueva High School is a public high school located in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is part of the Albuquerque Public Schools District. Their mascot is a bear. The La Cueva Cluster has several middle and elementary schools that feed into it, of which include Desert Ridge, Madison, and Eisenhower middle schools, Dennis Chavez, Double Eagle, E. G. Ross, Hubert Humphrey, and North Star elementary schools. La Cueva started in 1986 with 1200 students ranging from Freshman to Juniors.[1]
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[edit] Academics
[edit] School grade
The NMPED (New Mexico Public Education department) replaced the "No child left behind act" and AYP testing with a new school grading formula, which took effect for the 2010-11 school years. The grade is calculated usung many forms of testing, and includes graduation rates.[2]
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| 2010–11 | A |
La Cueva has been a New Mexico Exemplary School for the past three years, and the only APS high school to meet AYP.[citation needed] According to www.greatschools.net, the high school is one of very few high schools in the city and the state to receive a GreatSchools rating of 10 of 10. The website also indicates their test scores are among the highest of any high school in the city. La Cueva has been recognized nationally by Redbook magazine as a “School of Excellence." La Cueva offers a common variety of courses from practical and fine arts to various social studies classes, and numerous math and science classes. La Cueva Academic Decathlon has won a number of state championships and been recognized for excellence with outstanding performances at the national level.[citation needed] The JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society) TEAMS teams have been state champions every year since 1992.[citation needed] DECA: Association of Marketing Students program has had many students place in national marketing competitions. The Model United Nations program has won 8 state first places and finished 3rd in the National Model UN program. Frances Gruette, a teacher of AP Calculus AB, was awarded one of the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement.[3]
La Cueva has had national winners in the National Counsel of Teachers of English (NCTE) writing awards for the past eight years. Journalism and yearbook students have achieved state and national recognition for their work on school publications.[citation needed] A number of La Cueva graduates are presently journalists writing for news publications throughout the country. The school has also produced over 150 National Merit Scholarship Finalists since 1988.[citation needed]
[edit] Athletics
La Cueva High School is a New Activities Association (NMAA) AAAAA School in District 2.
LCHS competes in 18 NMAA Sport-Activity Events.
In 2010 and 2011, several substance abuse incidents brought scrutiny to the Bears athletic department. In late 2010, the Bears football team had just lost a playoff game in Las Cruces when some of its players reportedly were drinking on the bus ride home to Albuquerque. Head coach Fred Romero and assistant coach Mike Tixier lost their jobs after the incident, and Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent Winston Brooks put the athletic program on probation at that point. In February 2011, principal Todd Resch discussed with the school board in February the possibility of random drug testing at the school. In June 2011, three La Cueva players and one from Eldorado selected to play in the North-South baseball series were sent home, one day after police pulled over a car in which they were passengers and discovered they had been drinking. The three baseball players were part of a team that captured the Class 5A state championship despite losing two of its key players to suspension in April when they and a junior varsity player were caught with drug paraphernalia before a midweek practice.
[edit] State titles (since 2001) AAAAA
Does not include (28) AAAA State Titles, Total Championships: 78.
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During the 2004 to 2005 school year, the Bears baseball team briefly held the national record for consecutive wins. The Bears football team was undefeated for two seasons, losing its third game in the 2004-2005 year.[citation needed]
According to the school's website, the Bears have excelled on the athletic fields since school doors opened in 1986. The school has won a total of sixty-nine state championships, 226 district championships, and has been selected as the NMAA All-Sports Trophy winner 11 times for boys and 8 times for girls and were awarded the first ever Directors Cup honoring the total athletic program for the 2004-05 academic year. The school's first state championship came in 1987 as the La Cueva Girls' Cross Country team won the NM AAAA State Championship. La Cueva has had 29 High School All-Americans, 12 Gatorade Athletes of the Year, 6 APS Athletes of the Year, and 5 Tribune Athletes of the Year. Former Bears include Olympians Lance Ringnald (88) and Nate DiPalma (93). Collegiate All-Americans include Amy Warner (01), Kristen Graczyk (02), Jamie MacArthur (04), Randy Wells (07), Richie Hansen (95), Jennifer Hommert (95), Anna Tuttle (95), Doug Zembiec (91), Jeff Rowland (02). AJ Bramlett (Basketball) (95) played on the University of Arizona's national championship team and Nick Speegle (2000) was drafted and presently plays football for the Cleveland Browns. Sports Illustrated ranked the Bears as the 24th best overall sports high school in the country.
[edit] Notable alumni
- A.J. Bramlett - NCAA Natl. Champion Arizona Wildcats, Cleveland Cavaliers, and European Basketball player
- Christina Hall - Miss New Mexico 2006
- Neil Patrick Harris - actor [4]
- Jordan Pacheco - Major League Baseball Player
- James Parr - Major League Baseball Player
- Freddie Prinze, Jr. - actor
- Tony Strascina - actor [5]
- Christina July Kim - actress
- Major Douglas A. Zembiec
[edit] References
- ^ La Cueva High School website
- ^ http://webapp2.ped.state.nm.us/SchoolData/SchoolGrading.aspx
- ^ The Siemens' Foundtaion
- ^ IMDb bio of Neil Patrick Harris
- ^ La Cueva High School : School Information
http://www.abqjournal.com/sports/2011/06/11/4-prep-all-stars-sent-home-for-drinking.html
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