Chowchilla Union High School District (CUHSD) is a school district headquartered in

Chowchilla, California Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States. The city's population was 19,039 at the 2020 census. Chowchilla is located northwest of Madera, at an elevation of . The city is the location of two prisons: Central Califor ...

. It operates

Chowchilla Union High School Chowchilla Union High School is a public high school located in Chowchilla, California. It is within the Chowchilla Union High School District. Statistics Demographics In the 2016–2017 school year, the high school had a total of 1,051 stud ...

and the

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Gateway. Its feeder elementary districts are Alview-Dairyland Union School District and

Chowchilla Elementary School District Chowchilla Elementary School District is a public school district based in Madera County, California Madera County (), officially the County of Madera, is a county at the geographic center of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 cen ...

. The district board agreed to change the high school mascot to the "tribe" in 2016; it was previously the "

redskin Redskin is a slang term for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada. The term ''redskin'' underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries and in contemporary dictionaries of American English it is lab ...

" but controversies around Native American sports mascots caused the board to re-examine it. The previous year the State of California passed a law banning public schools using obvious Native American names.

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Chowchilla Union High School District

Chowchilla Union High
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