{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox school | name = Camelback High School | logo = none|108px | motto = Once a Spartan, always a Spartan | established = 1954 | type = Public secondary school | principal = Leon S. Kennedy | faculty = Approx. 177 | enrollment = 2,191 (2023–2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0406330&ID=040633000540|title=Camelback High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=May 27, 2025}}</ref> | ratio = 18.26<ref name=NCES/> | staff = 120.00 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/> | mascot = Spartan | colors = {{color box|#0823F1}}{{color box|#F16A08}} Blue and orange | city = Phoenix | state = Arizona 85016 | country = | website = [http://www.CamelbackHS.org www.CamelbackHS.org] | grades = 9–12 | address = 4612 North 28th Street | newspaper = | yearbook = | television station = | picture = <!-- Deleted image removed: 250px --> | picture_caption = | coordinates = {{Coord|33.5041384|-112.0231604|display=inline,title|format=dms|type:edu_source:GNIS}}<ref>{{GNIS2|2391|Data from}} GNIS</ref> }}
'''Camelback High School''' is part of the Phoenix Union High School District. The campus is located at 4612 North 28th Street, northeast of downtown Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Camelback's enrollment is just over 2,200 students, over 75 percent of whom are Hispanic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/arizona/districts/phoenix-union-high-school-district/camelback-high-school-1050|title=Camelback High School Statistics}}</ref> The school predominantly serves students from partner elementary districts Balsz, Creighton, Madison and Wilson. During the 2023–2024 school year, Camelback was named a National Demonstration School for the Center for High School Success.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bresnahan |first=Claire |date=2023-09-06 |title=Introducing CHSS Demonstration Schools |url=https://highschoolsuccess.org/2023/09/06/introducing-chss-demonstration-schools/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Center for High School Success |language=en-US}}</ref>
== History == Camelback was designed by a group of noted local architects consisting of Lescher & Mahoney, Edward L. Varney, H. H. Green and John Sing Tang with Harold Ekman and Fred M. Guirey as consultant and supervising architects. The construction contract to build the school was awarded to Mardian Construction Co.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arizona Builder and Contractor, May 1954, Vol. 16, No. 10|url=https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/azmagazines/id/287|access-date=January 13, 2021|website=azmemory.azlibrary.gov|language=en}}</ref> The campus was renovated in 2007 with many of the outdated original buildings demolished and replaced with new buildings. Architectural Resource Team drew up the planes for the renovation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=education 2|url=http://art-teamaz.com/education-2.html|access-date=January 13, 2021|website=Architectural Resource Team|language=en}}</ref> Phoenix City Council District 6 candidate <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.juanschovilledistrict6.com/facts-about-juan-schoville | title=Juan Schoville for City Council District 6 - facts about Juan Schoville }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ahwatukee.com/news/article_36fe967c-fd76-11ec-b33c-c38416c0d088.html#:~:text=Schoville%2C%20who%20ran%20as%20a%20write-in%20candidate%20in,was%20the%20second%20woman%20elected%20Phoenix%20City%20Council | title=Other races for Nov. 8 will gel next week | date=July 7, 2022 }}</ref>
== Notable alumni == * Brad Buxer – musician, composer * Billy Mayfair – professional golfer * Michael Meldman – real estate developer * John Shadegg – US House of Representatives * Neal Smith – drummer for band Alice Cooper * Frank Spotnitz – writer, producer * Melody Thornton – singer * Mark Whipple – football coach, University of Massachusetts
==Trivia== Camelback High School is referenced in the song "Alma Mater" by Alice Cooper, whose drummer Neal Smith is an alumnus.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
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==External links== * [http://phoenixunion.schoolwires.net/Domain/10 Camelback High School] * [http://www.phoenixunion.org/ Phoenix Union High School District website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621224131/http://www.phoenixunion.org/ |date=June 21, 2011 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100607125812/http://www10.ade.az.gov/ReportCard/SchoolSummary.aspx?id=5438&ReportLevel=1 Arizona Department of Education School Report Card] * [https://twitter.com/phoenixunionhs Twitter] * [http://www.facebook.com/phoenixunion Facebook]
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