The Board announces it will build the new school on the Catalina site. The Board says the line this coming school year will be Calle Concordia, meaning that kids living across the street from CDO will be bused to Amphi. Within weeks, the entire Amphi School Board has been recalled and replaced with angry Oro Valley white folk. The newly redrawn CDO attendance area looks like it was gerrymandered by a California Democrat. All others outside the donut hole, including those who live near the Pinal County line to the north and Marana to the west, will be bused to Amphi High, which is forced to go on double session.
Lawsuits fly and transportation costs increase tenfold.
All efforts to build a new high school are dropped by the Board when it becomes public that 37 percent of the district's budget is going to fight lawsuits. Amphi High's enrollment passes the 5,000 mark. The former Amphi Middle School has been commandeered and is serving as a freshman campus. In the finals, Amphi beats Mesa Mt. View, 84-0, with all 98 members of the Panther squad seeing playing time. They have more students than we do.