Valencia High School is a

high school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...

(grades 9–12) that opened in the fall of 2006 in

Los Lunas Los Lunas is a village in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village has a population of 17,242. It is the county seat of Valencia County. Los Lunas is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

Valencia County, New Mexico Valencia County () is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,205. The county seat is Los Lunas. Valencia County is included in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was a ...

, United States. Formerly known as the "Los Lunas Career Academy", the high school serves students on the east side of the

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, with the exception of students who attended Ann Parish Elementary School. The school campus was founded in 2000 by Claire Fenton under the name of "Los Lunas Career Academy", then a satellite campus of the only high school in Los Lunas, Los Lunas High School. The site adopted the name of Valencia High School shortly after the district re-zoned and create Los Lunas' second formal high school in 2005. Additions to the campus were constructed using $6.3 million from the Public Schools Capital Outlay Commission. The school mascot is the Jaguar, and the official school colors are turquoise, red and silver. Valencia is a 3A school The school opened in fall 2006 with its first freshman class. The first full four-year graduating group was the class of 2010. The school's facilities include a weight room, wrestling room, gymnasium and locker rooms, two soccer fields, a football stadium with an all-weather track, a baseball field, softball field, field house, and a newly built Performing Arts Center. Valencia High School offers 22 sports programs, eight AP courses, three Pre-AP courses, and two Community Enhanced Learning Programs. It has 13 Level 3 teachers.

Performing arts

In 2017, the newly built Performing Arts Center officially opened. The Valencia High School Concert Band and Drama Club host performances there. The Valencia High School Band Program is run by Michelle Stanbary and Nate Van Dam and has about 70 students ranging from freshmen to seniors, with all grades participating in all bands at every level. There are six bands: Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jammin Jags Jazz Band (Jazz I), Big Band (Jazz II), Jaguar Marching Band, and a new Choir class. Both the concert bands and marching band are in class 4A. The Valencia High School Drama Club is run by Drama and English teacher, Martha Navarro.

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