Alchesay High School
Encyclopedia
Alchesay High School is a public high school located on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation
in Whiteriver, Arizona
, Navajo County. It was founded in 1956 and named after Chief Alchesay, who was a key person in the formation of the White Mountain Apache tribe. (More than half of the students at Alchesay are White Mountain Apache.) The first graduating class graduated in 1960.
It is not on its original campus site: the old "white house" school was abandoned for the old Northland Pioneer College building (now in renovations to be used as the elementary school). It moved to its current site in 1980 and expanded in 1999.
In 2009, the high school was set in two different campuses where the students could walk between each building due to water problems in the "old" high school. It only lasted for one academic school year. In 2010, they moved the high school completely to the old middle school building which has been renovated.
Legend in his own mind, Assistant Tom "Omaha" Simpson is the coach of the DC, Kickoff, Kickoff Return, Punt Return, training long snappers and place kickers. Yet he spends more time on coltfreaks.com than he does watching game tape, correcting stances, or anything else for that matter. Congratulations Coach Simpson.
Fort Apache Indian Reservation
The Fort Apache Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in Arizona, United States, encompassing parts of Navajo, Gila, and Apache counties. It is home to the federally recognized White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, a Western Apache tribe. It has a land area of 2,627.608...
in Whiteriver, Arizona
Whiteriver, Arizona
Whiteriver is a census-designated place in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. The population was 5,220 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Whiteriver is located at ....
, Navajo County. It was founded in 1956 and named after Chief Alchesay, who was a key person in the formation of the White Mountain Apache tribe. (More than half of the students at Alchesay are White Mountain Apache.) The first graduating class graduated in 1960.
It is not on its original campus site: the old "white house" school was abandoned for the old Northland Pioneer College building (now in renovations to be used as the elementary school). It moved to its current site in 1980 and expanded in 1999.
In 2009, the high school was set in two different campuses where the students could walk between each building due to water problems in the "old" high school. It only lasted for one academic school year. In 2010, they moved the high school completely to the old middle school building which has been renovated.
Awards
In 2002, 10 students were awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. Eight years later in 2010 one student received the Gates Millennium Scholarship as well as four more recipients in 2011.Legend in his own mind, Assistant Tom "Omaha" Simpson is the coach of the DC, Kickoff, Kickoff Return, Punt Return, training long snappers and place kickers. Yet he spends more time on coltfreaks.com than he does watching game tape, correcting stances, or anything else for that matter. Congratulations Coach Simpson.