Mountain Pointe High School

Mountain Pointe High School

Establishing purpose, instilling pride, empowering performance one person at a time.
Location
4201 E. Knox Road
Phoenix, AZ 85044
United States
Coordinates 33°19′33″N 111°59′26″W / 33.3259°N 111.9906°W / 33.3259; -111.9906Coordinates: 33°19′33″N 111°59′26″W / 33.3259°N 111.9906°W / 33.3259; -111.9906
Information
Type Public
Established 1991
School district Tempe Union High School District
Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Baca
Principal Bruce Kipper
Staff 130 (2011)[1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 2,565 (October 1, 2012)[2]
Average class size 32
Language English
Schedule type Traditional
Color(s) Maroon and Gold
        
Mascot The Pride (of Lions)
Rival Desert Vista High School
Male/Female 52% / 48%
Website www.mphspride.com

Mountain Pointe High School is a secondary school located in the community of Ahwatukee, which is in the southern part of Phoenix, Arizona. Mountain Pointe is a part of the Tempe Union High School District.

On April 16, 2010, the school was awarded the A+ School of Excellence Award, the first school in the district to ever do so.

History

The Ahwatukee area of Phoenix experienced explosive growth in the 1990s. The Kyrene School District, the elementary school district in the area, opened a string of new schools here at this time, and the Tempe Union High School District followed suit by opening its last two high schools west of Interstate 10. Mountain Pointe was completed by the fall of 1990, but the Tempe Union district could not open it right away due to funding shortfalls.[3] At last, the new, US$27 million facility ($47 million in 2016 dollars[4]) opened to students the next year.[3] The 1,100 students in grades 9 and 10 that attended the school at its start were asked to pick a mascot: an eagle, thunder, rough riders or a pride of lions, which won out.[1] Its rival Desert Vista High School was opened to serve the growing southwestern part of Ahwatukee in 1996. Prior to Mountain Pointe's opening, Ahwatukee was part of the service areas of Corona del Sol High School (five miles away from Mountain Pointe and east of the Interstate 10 freeway) and Tempe High School. In the spring of 1994, Mountain Pointe graduated its first graduating class.

Mountain Pointe is the largest high school in Ahwatukee with open boundaries. Many people who live in the 85044 zip code attend Mountain Pointe along with commuters from the South Mountain area as well as from Maricopa. The Tempe Union High School District, which had to redraw boundaries significantly in the early 2000s as Corona del Sol grew over its capacity, also includes significant portions of west Chandler in Mountain Pointe's boundaries. While Corona has since shrunk in size, the boundary oddities remain.

Campus

Mountain Pointe is an open boundary school that permits any student to attend.[5] Mountain Pointe enforces a closed-campus policy and has since its inception,[3] in which ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders may not leave campus without an adult checking them out for the day. Seniors are only permitted to leave campus with a special ID which can only be obtained with a signed and notarized parent permission form.

As of the 2009–2010 school year, Mountain Pointe High School now operates on a traditional schedule.[6] This change comes after a ruling in which all six of the Tempe Union district schools did not meet the Arizona standards for required classroom time. The day now consists of five 57 minute classes, one 63 minute homeroom (five extra minutes for announcements), and a 30-minute lunch. A major criticism of traditional schedule is the loss of an academic lab, a 45–minute study hall, which allowed each student to travel to one teacher for extra help. A 40-minute academic lab returned to Mountain Pointe in the fall of 2011.

Notable alumni

Athletics

Mountain Pointe's athletic teams' accomplishments include 118 region championships, over the course of 20 years with its sports.[22] The athletics program has won the H.A. Hendrickson Award for top Arizona athletic program, as well as Tempe's top athletic program award numerous times.

In 2006, one of their female soccer players, Alexandra Elston, earned the Gatorade Player of the Year award. She won the award attending as a senior.

Mountain Pointe competes in the annual Ahwatukee Bowl, a Friday-night football game against Desert Vista. Previous Ahwatukee Bowls have been nationally televised on ESPNU.[23] Beginning with the 2011 edition, the game is titled the Ahwatukee Memorial Bowl.[24]

The football team won the Division I Arizona State Championship by defeating defending champions Chandler Hamilton 42-19 on November 30, 2013. The team finished the year with a perfect 14-0 record as the number one team in Arizona and ranked in the top 10 of all high school football teams in the United States.[25]

There are many sports offered at Mountain Pointe that includes Freshman, junior varsity, and varsity level for both boys and girls. The offered varsity sports are:

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/09/09/20110909ar-mpanniversary0909.html
  2. ↑ AIA 2012 enrollment figures
  3. 1 2 3 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1992-10-14/news/birth-of-a-team-legendary-football-coach-karl-kiefer-starts-another-winning-tradition/2/
  4. ↑ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/view.php?page=5,38
  6. ↑ http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/mtp/activities/BellSchedule2009-2010.pdf
  7. ↑ Reiss, Mike (August 20, 2007). "Punter Baugher hoping to hang with Patriots". Boston Globe. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Skoda, Jason (August 3, 2012). "Former Mountain Pointe star Will Claye jumping for gold". East Valley Tribune. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ Johnston, Jerry Earl (March 22, 2014). "Bees land blue-chip home boy C. J. Cron". Deseret News. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ Rivers, Natalie (April 5, 2011). "Mountain Pointe senior's bat keeping team in the hunt". KTVK. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ Domingo, Odeen (January 12, 2012). "Former Mtn. Pointe soccer star Evans joins U.S. national team". Arizona Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  12. ↑ Miranda, Coty Dolores (July 19, 2012). "6 will be inducted into Mtn. Pointe Hall of Fame". Arizona Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Eaton, Kristi (February 2, 2007). "Soap opera gamble pays off for E.V. woman". East Valley Tribune. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  14. ↑ Lee, Timothy (July 18, 2010). "MP alum's band going strong". Ahwatukee Foothills News. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  15. ↑ Roemhild, Travis (August 10, 2012). "Kamm, Pierson inducted into MP Hall of Fame". Ahwatukee Foothills News. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  16. ↑ Domingo, Odeen (August 6, 2010). "Nicole Powell was Arizona's finest high school girls basketball player". Ariozna Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  17. ↑ Berghaus, Bob (August 2, 2012). "Mountain Pointe grad Reid Priddy plays key role for U.S. volleyball". USA Today. Arizona Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  18. ↑ McLellan, Sarah (August 6, 2010). "Early collapse propelled Sara Gorton's high school running career". Arizona Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Clifford Starks MMA Bio". Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  20. ↑ Whiteford, Mike (April 8, 2015). "Tucker ready for Power's opener Thursday". WV Gazette. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  21. ↑ url=http://alpstourgolf.com/profiles/
  22. ↑ http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/mtp/sports/titles.html
  23. ↑ http://varsity.evtrib.com/story/121118
  24. ↑ http://www.ahwatukee.com/sports/article_5d4c89f8-d4ea-11e0-9687-001cc4c002e0.html
  25. ↑ http://www.azcentral.com/sports/preps/articles/20131130mountain-pointe-defeats-hamilton-to-complete-unbeaten-season.html
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