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baseball diamonds, a football field, a marching band practice field, a softball field, and two soccer fields. The school features a student-run convenience store, the Spirit Store, which also sells Highland branded merchandise. An on-campus cafeteria offers school meal options as well as offerings from nationwide vendors. A library serves the student body from 7 am to 4 pm.
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either as a stand-alone entity or in partnership with other schools or universities. It won the AZ Regional FRC Competition in 2007, 2008, 2009. It won LA Vegas FRC in 2008. It won the AZ regional FTC competition in 2011 and 2012. It took first place in 2009 and 2010 at the university level at NURC
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in 1997, 2007, 2013 and most recently in 2021. The orchestra program currently has over 250 enrolled students and five performing groups. The Highland orchestra has also been a participating program in the nationwide program United Sound since United Sound first started with five schools in 2014.
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Uniquely, The Jazz Program hosts a yearly Highland/ASU Jazz Festival for the past 11 years and has the only United Sound Jazz Band Program in the United States. Accolades from the Highland jazz program includes the 2010 and 2017 Judge’s Most Outstanding (Jazz Black), and the 2013, 2015 AMEA State
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National Band Championship Competition in 1999 and in 2009. In addition, the Highland Marching Band has been in the top division(s) in the State of Arizona for over 28 consecutive years and consistently qualify for state championships. Furthermore, they are two time state champions with being the
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Highland High School is located at 4301 E. Guadalupe Road in Gilbert, Arizona, on the south side of Guadalupe between Recker Road and Power Road. Its campus includes a two-story main building, and separate buildings for athletics, administration, and the performing arts. It has a gymnasium, three
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In 2023 the theatre program performed Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical. This performance was made possible by winning the rights to perform the production through the United States of Frozen nationwide competition, in which one school in each state was awarded the privilege to be the first
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Highland's academic offers are organized under 12 departments: Agriculture, Business, English, Family & Consumer Science, Fine & Performing Arts, Industrial Arts, Math, Modern Language, Physical Education/Education for the body, Science, Social Studies, and Special Education.
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Highland's band program has an enrollment of over 300 students in three year-round concert bands, three year-round jazz bands, two spring woodwind choirs, and a competitive marching band. The marching band has received national recognition, and has marched in the
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Honors courses are offered in English literature, laboratory science, and math, for first- and second-year students. Upperclassmen may then elect to participate in any of 17
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Dances sponsored by the school are Homecoming, Winter Formal, Morp (Valentine's dance; "Prom" spelled backwards, where girls ask guys), and
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Highland is known collectively as the Highland Hawks in athletic competition and has won several team and individual state titles.
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first band to ever win the ABODA Division 1 State Marching Band Championship in 2009 and the AzMBA 4A State Championship in 2016.
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Highland's orchestra also performed at Carnegie Hall (2002), and its Symphonic Orchestra performed at the
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In athletics, the school is known collectively as the Highland Hawks. Highland is a member of the
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district. It accommodates grades 9–12, and in 2010, the school had a student body of 2,957.
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Highland hosts more than 70 activities and student clubs. The school has participated in
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Twenty-three percent of HHS students participate in a daily, release-time
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commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombings. It ranked #4 in the
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State championships for the Hawks in sports include the following:
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Girls' basketball: 1994, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009
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Gilbert, Arizona
Arizona
Coordinates
33°21′49″N 111°41′53″W / 33.363611°N 111.698056°W / 33.363611; -111.698056
Public
High school
Gilbert Public Schools
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Gilbert High School
Official website
Gilbert, Arizona
Gilbert Public Schools
Arizona Interscholastic Association
Advanced Placement
baccalaureate service
commencement ceremony
Blue Ribbon school
FIRST Robotics Competition
Arizona State University
Future Farmers of America
Academic Decathlon
Prom
seminary
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Fiesta Bowl
Disneyland Light Parade

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