Arvada High School
Arvada High School is a public secondary school operated by Jefferson County School District R-1 in Arvada, Colorado, United States. Demographics. Arvada High's student body has the following racial demographics: History. The first high school classes in Arvada commenced in 1900 at Zephyr and Grandview. Known as the Arvada School (it was renamed Lawrence Elementary School in 1955), local high school students attended classes there until a permanent high school was built in 1920. The first Arvada High School was located at 7225 Ralston Road and served students until 1955. The building served as a junior  high school until 1984 and was demolished in 1986. A new building at 5751 Balsam Street served students until 1971, when the school's current building was completed at 7951 W. 65th Avenue and the Balsam Street location became Arvada Junior High School. In the early 1920s, the school adopted the team name "Redskins". This was challenged in 1993 as derogatory and the new name "Reds" was adopted by a 2–1 margin in voting. The school subsequently adopted a bulldog as its new mascot. Curriculum. Since 2006, Arvada High School has been home to the district's North Area Option  School, an extremely rigorous college preparatory program. Many advanced placement classes are also available. Program classes are taught by Arvada High School instructors and 50% of the available enrollment is for Arvada High students. Extracurricular activities. Arvada High School fields teams in interscholastic competition in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling. The school is also active in the performing arts, with a band, choir, orchestra and theater program. The band program includes marching band, percussion ensemble (winner of the WGI World Percussion Championships in 1998), jazz band, and concert band . The school also has an award-winning journalism program. Both the school newspaper ("The Crimson Report") and yearbook ("The Arvadan") have won awards from the Colorado High School Press Association. The journalism program also has a YouTube news channel called BDTV, "Bulldog TV"