West Las Vegas High School (WLVHS) is a public

Public

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 senior high school in Las Vegas, New Mexico

Las Vegas, New Mexico

Las Vegas is a city in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate municipalities both named Las Vegas, west Las Vegas and east Las Vegas , divided by the Gallinas River, retain distinct characters and separate, rival school districts. The population was 14,565 at the 2000...

. It is a part of the West Las Vegas Schools

West Las Vegas Schools

West Las Vegas Public Schools is a school district based in Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States.The district covers a area in southern San Miguel County...

 District. Founded in 1947, it is the oldest high school in the city. The mascot of WLVHS is the Don

Don (honorific)

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, their colors are Spring Green

Spring Green

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 and Yellow

Yellow

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. Enrollment at the school current stands at 520.

Student body statistics

Ethnicity	This School	State Average
White (not hispanic)	10%	29%
Hispanic (of any race)	88%	56%
American Indian/Alaskan Native	2%	11%
African American	<1%	3%
Pacific Islander	<1%	1%

Athletics

WLVHS competes in the New Mexico Activities Association

New Mexico Activities Association

The New Mexico Activities Association is a nonprofit organization that regulates interscholastic programs for junior and senior high schools in New Mexico. It hosts the statewide sports championship games each year...

, a AAA school, in district 2. Their district includes: Raton High School, Robertson High School

Robertson High School

Robertson High School is a public senior high school in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The school is part of the Las Vegas City Schools District in former East Las Vegas. The building dates from about 1945, when it was known as Las Vegas High School. The school was renamed Robertson High School in 1958. ...

 and Taos High School

Taos High School

Taos High School is the public high school in Taos, New Mexico, US. It is located outside of Taos Pueblo, at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Approximately 25,000 people live in the area served by the Taos Municipal School District, which also includes Carson National Forest, Taos...

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WLVHS has won 5 State Chmapionships since 1978.

State Championships
Season	Sport	Number of Championships	Year
Spring	Boys, Small Team Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...	3	2009
	Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...	1	1978, 1968
	Girls, Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....	1	1999, 1996
Total		5