Coronado High School (Nevada)

Coronado High School is a public high school in Henderson, Nevada, part of Clark County School District.

Coronado High School
Location
1001 Coronado Center Drive
Henderson, NV 89052
Information
School typePublic High School
MottoExcellence by Design
Established2001
School districtClark County School District
PresidentMakenna Irvine
DeanSarah Barlow
Robert Kalinowski
PrincipalMichael Piccininni
Staff115.00 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment3,450 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio30.00[1]
Colour(s)Red, white, and blue
     
Athletics conferenceSunrise 4A Region
Team nameCoronado Cougars
PublicationThe Roar
WebsiteCoronado High School

History

The school was named after Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, a Spanish conquistador. It opened in 2000, with Monte Bay as its first principal. In 2005 Bay was selected as Nevada's Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.[2]

Extracurricular activities

Clubs

There are more than fifty activities that a student can participate in at Coronado. Among them are Spanish and French clubs, Key Club, NHS, and AP Club.

Color Guard/Winter Guard

The Coronado Color Guard marches alongside the award-winning Coronado Cougar Pride Marching Band during the fall and participates in the WGASC (Winter Guard Association of Southern California) for Indoor Season from December to April. The Guard has received numerous Excellent and Superior ratings for almost an entire decade. They practice flag, swing flag, rifle, sabre and airblade.

Varsity Quiz

Coronado's Varsity Quiz team has been a state playoff team each year since 2004, and they won their first State Championship in 2008. The same year, they became the first team in Nevada to compete in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments' High School Championships. The team also won the State Championship in 2016.

Robotics

The Coronado Computer/Robotics Club participates in the annual FIRST Robotics Competition. They received a participation grant from NASA for their "Rockin Robots" project in 2009/10.[3]

Theatre

The Coronado Theatre department puts on two yearly productions. Other productions include Broadway Memories, the Student Directed Short Play Festival, and Theatre Awards Night. The 2009–2010 season included a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and a production of George Abbott's The Pajama Game, in 2019 the Theatre performed Amanda Brown's Legally Blonde. The Theatre Department is now headed by Tobias Torres.

Choir

The Coronado Choir has performed in cities such as Anaheim, Chicago, Honolulu, and Flagstaff. They performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City in the spring of 2016. The department features six official groups, including Madrigals, Bella Voce, Glee Club, Concert Choir, and a men's and women's barbershop.

Athletics

Lacrosse

The boys lacrosse team won the State Championship in 2005.

The girls team won the state championship in 2006, 2007, and 2019.[4]

Bowling team

The boys team won the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association state championship in 2004, 2005, 2010, and 2015.[5] while the girls team won 2006, 2007, and 2008.[6]

Volleyball

Coronado High School's boys volleyball program has made ten state tournament appearances between 2004 and 2017, including four regional championships (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013), three state runners up (2009, 2010, 2011), and back-to-back state championships in 2012 and 2013.[7]

Coronado High School's girls volleyball program has made six state tournament appearances between 2003 and 2017, including six regional titles (2003, 2005, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017), one state runner up finish (2003), and a state championship "three-peat" with three state championship titles in 2013, 2014, and 2015.[8]

Tennis team

The women's team won the Nevada 4A State Title in 2003, 2017, and 2018.[9]

Baseball Team

The 2014 boy's varsity baseball team won the Division 1 Nevada state championship.

Coronado Cougar Pride Marching Band

Coronado's band has 130 members. The band made finals at the 2006 Bands of America performance at Northern Arizona University[10] as well as the 2009 Bands of America performance at St. George, Utah, at the time only the fourth school to do so in the history of Clark County School District. The band has traveled to San Diego, California, and London, England to march in the New Year's Day Parade, to Washington D.C. to perform in the National Cherry Blossom Festival and Independence Day Parade, and to Dublin, Ireland, for the St. Patrick's Day parade, and to Cleveland, Ohio, to perform at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Academics
  • Many different AP classes are offered to students, ranging from Computer Science to U.S. History and Chemistry to Psychology.
  • About 40 percent go to four year colleges and 30 percent enter two year community colleges after graduating senior year.

Feeder schools
  • Neil C. Twitchell Elementary School (2001)
  • John C. Vanderburg Elementary School (1997)
  • Glen C. Taylor Elementary School (2003)
  • Elise L. Wolff Elementary School (2001)
  • Frank Lamping Elementary School (1998)
  • David M. Cox Elementary School (1990)
  • Selma F. Bartlett Elementary School (1992)
  • Bob Miller Middle School (1999)
  • Del E. Webb Middle School (2005)
  • Barbara & Hank Greenspun Junior High School (1991)

References
  1. "Coronado High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  2. Ross, Brooke (16 March 2005). "A principal with principles: Coronado High's Monte Bay nabs national award". View Neighborhood Newspapers [Anthem]. Archived from the original on November 18, 2005. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  3. "FIRST Robotics Competition: 2009-2010 NASA Robotics Alliance Project: FIRST Robotics Competition Sponsorship Grants". NASA. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  4. "Record Book: Swimming & Diving, Girls" (PDF). Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  5. "Record Book: Bowling, Boys" (PDF). Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  6. "Record Book: Bowling, Girls" (PDF). Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  7. "Coronado Volleyball - Boy's Volleyball". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  8. "Coronado Volleyball - Girl's Volleyball". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  9. "Coronado rolls Palo Verde to clinch second straight state title". Nevada Preps. 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  10. Admin, MFA. "Flagstaff, AZ". Retrieved 2016-08-30.

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