Grand Junction High School (GJHS) is a public

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located in

Grand Junction, Colorado Grand Junction is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 65,560 at the 2020 United States Census, making Grand Junction the 17th mos ...

, United States. It is part of the Mesa County Valley School District 51. It is one of four high schools located within the Grand Valley.

History

Originally founded in 1891, the school has been located at its current location on Fifth St. since 1956. In early 2022; an entirely new GJHS school building began construction, after the building is finished, the original building will be demolished. As of 2021, the student-teacher ratio was approximately 17:1. A wall of the school was signed by U.S President

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in 2013.

Athletics

Grand Junction's chosen athletic rival is

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. Some of the sports Grand Junction offers are: *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

(boys') *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

(boys' and girls') *

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

* Cross country (boys' and girls') *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

(boys') *

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 wi ...

(boys' and girls') *

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

(boys' and girls') *

Pom Squad A dance squad or dance team, sometimes called a pom squad or song team, is a team of participants that participates in competitive dance. A dance squad can also include: a jazz squad, ballet squad, or any kind of religion dance squad. Dance squads ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

(boys' and girls') *

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

(girls') *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

(boys' and girls') *

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

(boys' and girls') *

Track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...

(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 Summ ...

(girls') *

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(boys')

Student publications

The school publishes a newspaper, ''The Orange and Black,'' as well as a yearbook, ''The Tiger.''

Notable alumni

* Paul Briggs -

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tackle for the

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* Chuck Cottier - major league baseball player, scout, and coach *

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linebacker for the

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- Associate Justice of the

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- NFL quarterback and coach *

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- politician *

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- author and

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Officer *

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- author and

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- NFL quarterback for the

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References

External links

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Mesa County Valley School District official website
{{authority control Public high schools in Colorado Grand Junction, Colorado Schools in Mesa County, Colorado

History

Athletics

Student publications

Notable alumni

See also

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