Chiawana High School
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Chiawana High School is a new high school in Pasco, Washington
Pasco, Washington
Pasco is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Washington, United States.Pasco is one of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington...

, which opened on August 31, 2009. The second high school of Pasco School District #1
Pasco School District (Washington)
Pasco School District # 1 serves over 11,500 school children from the City of Pasco, Washington and unincorporated Franklin County. It operates eleven elementary schools, three middle schools, a four-year high school, and an alternative secondary school. There are over 700 teachers and 600 support...

, their mascot is the Riverhawks and the colors are blue and silver. The school opened with 1600 students in grades 9, 10, and 11. The school graduated its first senior class in late spring of 2011.

As part of the construction, Chiawana High also features its own athletic facilities, which included a lighted football/soccer field surfaced with FieldTurf
FieldTurf
FieldTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. It is manufactured and installed by the FieldTurf Tarkett division of Tarkett Inc., based in Calhoun, Georgia, USA. In the late 1990s, the artificial surface changed the industry with a design intended to replicate real grass...

, negating the need to use Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium
Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium
Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium is the home stadium for the Pasco High School Bulldogs of Pasco, Washington. The school's football, soccer and track-and-field teams play their home games at "Edgar Brown", as it is commonly called....

 on the other end of town. The school's gymnasium, however, was used by both Chiawana and Pasco High School
Pasco High School
Pasco Senior High School, located at 1108 N. 10th Avenue in Pasco, Washington, is the largest high school in the Tri-Cities of Washington. Its mascot is the Bulldog and its colors are purple and white. Pasco High has a very diverse student body and a strong football program...

for the 2009-2010 school year, on account that the main gymnasium at Pasco High had undergone an unanticipated replacement of the facility's roof.
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