Santa Rita High School
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Santa Rita High School is located in Tucson, Arizona
. The school was established in 1969. It was named after the Santa Rita Mountains
, one of the mountain range
s surrounding the Tucson valley. The campus has three main two story
classroom buildings where most classes are held. The school educates about 1,200 students from grades 9 to 12. Graduating classes usually consist of 300 students.
Recently Santa Rita has expanded and is in the process of building a new secondary gymnasium.
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
. The school was established in 1969. It was named after the Santa Rita Mountains
Santa Rita Mountains
The Santa Rita Mountains, located about 65 km southeast of Tucson, Arizona, extend 42 km from north to south, then trending southeast. They merge again southeastwards into the Patagonia Mountains, trending northwest by southeast...
, one of the mountain range
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...
s surrounding the Tucson valley. The campus has three main two story
Storey
A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...
classroom buildings where most classes are held. The school educates about 1,200 students from grades 9 to 12. Graduating classes usually consist of 300 students.
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 and is in the process of building a new secondary gymnasium.