Grace High School is the public
secondary school in
Grace, Idaho
Grace is a city in Caribou County, Idaho, Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 915 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census.
History
The area of Grace was once inhabited by the Shoshone Indians. The Oregon Trail passed w ...
, southeast of
Pocatello
Pocatello () is the county seat of and largest city in Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the P ...
. It serves grades 7-12 for the
Grace Joint School District.
Academics
In the 2022-23 ''
US News and World Report'' annual survey of US public high schools, Grace ranked 37th in Idaho and 6,932nd in the country.
The school is accredited by the
Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges
The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) is an independent, non-profit membership organization recognized by the United States Department of Education since 1952 as an institutional accreditor for colleges and universities. ...
.
Athletics
The high school supports
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
,
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
(boys and girls),
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
,
track & field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
,
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
, and
cross country. The high school's mascot is the Grizzlies; it was formerly the Red Devils until 1978. School colors are red, white, and gray. The school's football field/track is named Roswell Field, and the gymnasium is named Greenwood Gymnasium.
Notable people
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Dick Motta
John Richard Motta (born September 3, 1931) is an American former basketball coach whose career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) spanned 25 years. Motta coached the Washington Bullets to the 1978 NBA Championship, and he won the 1971 ...
-
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
(NBA) head basketball coach; his first head coaching job was at Grace, where he won a state championship.
*
Phil Johnson -
NCAA men's basketball coach
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References
External links
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Grace School District #148
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Schools in Caribou County, Idaho
Educational institutions established in 1953
Public high schools in Idaho
1953 establishments in Idaho