Centennial High School is a high school located in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. It serves roughly 1000 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is a part of Pueblo City Schools (District 60).HistoryCentennial High School started out as a 16 x 20 foot structure built in 1873 at 421 North Santa Fe Avenue. Six years later, a larger adobe building went up at Eleventh and Court Streets. This school was first called the High School of District One, or Pueblo High School. When Colorado was admitted to the Union one hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1876), the high school gradually began to be called "The Centennial", in honor of Colorado being "The Centennial State." At some point, locals dropped the article and began referring to the school as Centennial High School.The adobe building was expanded beginning in the late 1880s, until a larger high school was mostly in place by 1921. This building served for over fifty years until a new campus was built at Mountview Drive and Baltimore Avenue in 1973. The old campus is now the site of a District 60 administration building.The first graduating class in 1884 consisted of seven students. Well-known graduates of Centennial include David Packard (1930), co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company; Morey Bernstein (1937), author of The Search for Bridey Murphy; Edra Jean "E.J." Peaker (1958), a Broadway, film, and television actress; and many of the business and political elite of Pueblo.
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