page_title: Canyon del Oro High School
section_title: Academia
hierarchical_section_title: Canyon del Oro High School / Notable alumni / Academia
caption_attribution_description: Joseph Polchinski English: I took the picture and declare it public domain. Lubos Motl (Lumidek)
context_page_description: Canyon del Oro High School is a comprehensive public high school in Oro Valley, Arizona, located 6 miles north of Tucson at the base of Pusch Ridge. Established in 1964, CDO is one of three high schools of Amphitheater Public Schools and serves about 1,600 students in grades 9–12. The school name originates from the remote Canyon del Oro in the nearby Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The school mascot is the Dorado, a mythical Latin American warrior. The school colors are forest green and gold. The Dorado mascot was originally designed by former art teacher Diane Redhair in the mid-1960s.
  CDO is primarily known for its academic program and the notable number of Major League Baseball players the school has produced in recent decades. CDO is statistically one of the highest achieving schools in Arizona, both academically and athletically. In 2007, 2010, and again in 2011, Newsweek Magazine rated CDO in the top 5% of public schools in the U.S., one of a handful of schools in Arizona included on the list. In 2011, Newsweek ranked CDO No. 408 in its list of top public schools in the U.S.
context_section_description: Keith A. Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Chemistry
  Joseph Polchinski, University of California at Santa Barbara (high energy physics, string theory)
caption: Joseph Polchinski
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