Chandler High School (Chandler, Arizona)

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Location
Chandler High School
350 N Arizona Ave Chandler, AZ
Information
School district	Chandler Unified School District
Principal	Terry Williams
Enrollment	3,127
Type	Public
Grades	9-12
Mascot	Wolves
Color(s)	Royal Blue and White
Yearbook	El Lobo
Newspaper	Wolf Howl
Established	1912
Information	(480) 812-7700
Homepage	[1]

Chandler High School is a public high school located in Chandler, Arizona, United States. One of the oldest high schools in Arizona, it was founded in 1912, the year Chandler was founded, and the same year Arizona became a state.

The high school has an active athletic program and has many sports rivalries with other local teams, specifically with the newer high schools in Chandler, Hamilton High School and Basha High School.

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Chandler High School is renowned for its high academics, and it offers a large catalog of Advanced Placement classes. It was also the first of only eight high schools in Arizona to offer the International Baccalaureate diploma. The other International Baccalaureate schools are Nogales High School, Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ironwood High School in Glendale, Westwood High School in Mesa, and North, North Canyon and Barry Goldwater High School in Phoenix. Chandler High School also has a notable debate team that competes in National Forensic League events. Another notable aspect of Chandler High School is its state champion track team.

Chandler High School is also notable for its active and competitive music programs. Chandler High School Chorale was the first American high school to be invited to perform at the 2005 Jilin College of the Arts Summer Music Festival in Changchun, People's Republic of China,[2] and as well as that, was invited not once, but twice to perform at the noble Carnegie Hall for a festival, while Chandler High School's Wolf Pack Pride Marching Band competed in the 2005-2006 Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship, placing fifth. The Marching Band will compete again in the 2008-2009 Championship as well. The Symphonic Band also competed April of 2006 in Boston at the Boston Symphony Hall in the Heritage Festival of Gold. The band took fourth.[3] The Symphonic Band competed again in April 2008 at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, taking first.

Chandler also has a theatre department. Such shows vary from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Outsiders, Miser, Rebel Without a Cause, Footloose, and many more. The Chandler theatre has been to the Central Arizona Acting Festival and many students received Superior. The highest class and Chandler, A.P.A.C. (Advanced Pantomime And Characterization) have traveled through out the years to elementary kids and performed numerous books for them.