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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Graham County, AZ |
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| Total Students |
755 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
49% /
51% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
39 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 223 students | | Grade 10 - 192 students | | Grade 11 - 181 students | | Grade 12 - 159 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:19 |
1:20 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
1% |
13% |
| % Asian |
1% |
1% |
| % Hispanic |
44% |
34% |
| % Black |
2% |
5% |
| % White |
53% |
47% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
n/a |
23% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
n/a |
5% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
1% |
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| School District Name |
Safford Unified School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
6 |
2 |
| Number of Students Managed |
2,802 students |
505 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$19,723,000 |
$3,309,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$18,610,000 |
$2,717,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$7,039 |
$6,552 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$6,642 |
$5,380 |
| District Graduation Rates |
56% |
50% |
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- Safford High School, of the Safford Unified School District, is one of two public high schools in Safford, Arizona. The campus hosts the Safford Center for the Arts, located on the north lot of the campus property.
- As of the 2008 school year, the school had a staff population of 79 and a student population of 854.
- History of the SHS Campus
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Safford High School was established as an institution in 1915.
- Original SHS campus
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The original Safford High School building, which was located where Safford Middle School is currently located, was opened in 1915. It served as the main high school building through the 1979-80 school year. Over the years other buildings were built. This included Baker Stadium, which served as the home of the Safford Bulldogs from 1938 through the 1986 season, a gymnasium in 1943, which allowed the previous gym to be retrofitted into an auditorium, and the other classroom buildings. This included a library built in the 1960s. It is noted that during this period the baseball stadium was at the old bleachers by Lafe Nelson School as was the field house for the football and wrestling teams.
- Once the high school moved to its current campus the original Safford Junior High School, which had its own building adjacent to the high school, was torn down in 1980. Safford Junior High, then later Middle, School occupied the main building and the gymnasium until the mid 1990's when concerns for those buildings safety prompted them to be razed and replaced. The 1915-built building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and remains listed, apparently erroneously as the building is gone. The reason why it was torn down is interesting. It turns out that the building was made of rather shoddy material and was in poor condition. The SUSD weighed the costs of refurbishing the building with the whatever fine might be imposed for tearing down a structure on the National Register. It was torn down. Ultimately shoddy construction was also the reason that the old Safford High gym, which dated from the late 1940s, was torn down in the 1990s. However Baker Stadium, which was a WPA project, was built better because it is still used as the home field for the Middle School football teams.
- Current SHS campus
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The current SHS campus was carved out of cotton fields in 1980. The superintendent at that time was Ray Evans. Donald Wilson had retired in 1978. The fact of the matter is that the current campus was built in bits and pieces over the course of two and a half decades. The original plan for the high school was not completed, with some modification, until the opening of the new auditorium in 2006. When opened there was just the main classroom building and the gym. They were painted brown. In 1985, under the guidance of Superintendent Ron Starcher, the high school was repainted its current slightly cream/beige color. A teacher at the time termed the new paint job, "Very much an improvement." There was also just one paved road to the school, eleventh street. During the 1984-85 school years the roads connecting the school to Relation Street and to 20th Ave were completed. In 1986 a bond issue passed that allowed for the cafeteria, orchestra pit, and shop building that connects the gym and main building to be built. It also approved the construction of the current football stadium and track. Until that time there was no cafeteria, just a snack bar, all of the shop students still had to go over to the junior high, and all home track meets were at EAC. All of these new facilities were opened by the 1987-88 school year. It was this year the current bus barn was added. Then in 1990 the current baseball stadium and tennis courts were developed and later softball fields were developed when that sport was added. In the late 1990s the road connecting the school to Eighth Street was completed. In 2000 the new second gym and wrestling rooms was added to the building. Then in 2006 the auditorium was finished.
- Notable alumni
- Richard Harvey Chambers, class of 1924, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1959-1976.
- Beau Allred, class of 1983, baseball player. In 1990 Allred did hit a home run off Roger Clemens while a member of the Cleveland Indians.
- School resource officer
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As of 2008, the school has one school resource officer assigned to it from the Safford Police Department.
- See also
- Safford High School Home Page
- Vance Moya
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| About This Zip Code (85546) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
17,977 people |
5,005,418 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
20% |
25% |
| Population Average Age |
34 years old
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32 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.7 persons
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2.5 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$30,284
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$40,312 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
5.1 rooms |
4.9 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
32 years old |
30 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
75% / 25% |
63% / 37% |
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