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Centennial High School (Pueblo, Colorado)

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indoor natatorium with balcony seating, and District 60's only planetarium. The old campus was torn down is now the site of a District 60 administration building. A museum featuring a recreation of the font facade from the original building was built on campus, and it houses archival material detailing the history of the school and serves as the headquarters for the Centennial's alumni organization.
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fight song, which is sung as "On Centennial," for the school's fight song. Centennial won the first recognized Colorado state high school football championship in 1904, and has won three other state football championships since then, as well as championships in cross-country (seven) and basketball,
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The adobe building was expanded beginning in the late 1880s, until a larger high school was mostly in place by 1921. This building served for over fifty years until a new campus was built further north at Mountview Drive and Baltimore Avenue in 1973. The new campus featured a large gymnasium, an
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building went up at Eleventh and Court Streets on Pueblo's north side. This school was first called the High School of District One, or Pueblo High School. When Colorado was admitted to the Union in 1876, one hundred years after the signing of the
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baseball (boys), basketball, cross-country, football (boys), golf, soccer, softball (girls) swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball (girls), and wrestling (boys), gymnastics (girls), hockey (boys),
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Centennial High School started out as a 16 x 20 foot structure built in 1873 at 421 North Santa Fe Avenue in what became downtown Pueblo. Six years later, a larger
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The school colors are red and white, which is believed to date back to 1894 when a group of the school's girls wore red and white ribbons in their hair for a
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Construction of a new more modern building began in Spring 2021 and ended in May 2023, and the old building will be demolished.
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Centennial is part of what is believed to be the sixth oldest high school football rivalry, and the oldest west of the
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The first graduating class in 1884 consisted of seven students. Well-known graduates of Centennial include
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Pueblo
Coordinates
38°18′16″N 104°38′16″W / 38.30444°N 104.63778°W / 38.30444; -104.63778
High school
Pueblo School District 60
CEEB code
www.pueblod60.org/centennial
high school
Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo School District 60
adobe
Declaration of Independence
David Packard
Bridey Murphy
Broadway
football
Colorado College
bulldog
University of Wisconsin
Mississippi River
Central High School
the Bell Game
Hatfield Chilson
John Davis
MLB
Kansas City Royals
Chicago White Sox
San Diego Padres
Drew Dennis Dix

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