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Fort Morgan High School is a public high school located in
Fort Morgan, Colorado Fort Morgan is the home rule municipality city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Morgan County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 11,597 at the 2020 United States Census. Fort Morgan is the principal ...
, United States, in Morgan County. It is one of two public high school's located in the town along with Lincoln High School.


History

The school was established in the 1920s. In 1931, robbers broke into the principal's office and stole $50 worth of student funds. In 1965, a new school building was constructed to replace the old one, which became a middle school. In 2000, the school was closed for four months after an
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cleanup went awry. The school
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team were state champions in 1911,1952, 1999, and 2021.


Student demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 879 students enrolled for the 2020-2021 school year was: *American Indian - 0.46% *Asian - 0.57% *Black - 5.7% *Hispanic - 63.5% *White - 29% *Biracial - 0.8% The demographic breakdown for student by gender was 464 male students and 415 female students.


Notable people

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Lola Spradley Lola Spradley (born June 28, 1946) is an American politician from Colorado. She served as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005, the first woman elected to the position. Early life Born Lola Fox in Burlington, Colorad ...
- first female to serve as speaker of the
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Trey McBride Trey McBride (born November 22, 1999) is an American football tight end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Colorado State, where he was named a unanimous All-American and the John Mack ...
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player *
Stan Matsunaka Stanley Toshi Matsunaka (born November 12, 1953) is a former Democratic member of the Colorado State Senate, serving from 1995 to 2003. He served as President of the Senate for two years. In both the 2002 and 2004 congressional elections, Mat ...
- American politician *
Brenton Metzler Brenton Metzler is an American television producer. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle as supervising producer of the HGTV show '' Elbow Room''. He had a leading role in the documentary ''F(l)ag Football'' (2015). Early li ...
- television producer *
Don Welch Don Welch (June 3, 1932 – August 6, 2016) was an American poet and academic who was born in Hastings, Nebraska. The author of several published poetry collections and a regular contributor to literary magazines, Welch was an English literature p ...
- poet * Ryan Jensen - American football player *
Joel Dreessen Joel Clifford Dreessen (born July 26, 1982) is a former American football tight end. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Colorado State. Dreessen has also played for the Hou ...
- American football player


Further reading

*''Maroons to Mustangs; Fort Morgan High School, 1966-1996'' (1997)


References


External links

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District website
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