Canutillo High School
Canutillo High School is a public high school in Canutillo, Texas on 6675 South Desert Boulevard. It is part of the Canutillo Independent School District

Canutillo Independent School District

Canutillo Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Canutillo, Texas .In addition to Canutillo, the district serves a portion of Vinton as well as the communities of Prado Verde and Westway. A small portion of El Paso also lies within the district.The...

. This is the second campus that has been Canutillo High School the original high school was built in the early 1960s. In the early first decade of the 21st century overcrowding was an issue at the aging facility. In 2003 a bond was passed to build the new High school along Interstate 10

Interstate 10

Interstate 10 is the fourth-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90, I-80, and I-40. It is the southernmost east–west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway, although I-4 and I-8 are further south. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at State Route 1 in Santa Monica,...

 next to the campus of the El Paso Community College. In 2006 the new high school opened its doors to the Borderland community. It has a capacity of 1800 students currently the school has 1523 students. James Fry is the principal.

School Colors and Mascot

The school mascot is an eagle along with the school colors being UTEP orange blue and white. The story is when the original school opened the school had the old jerseys from the University of Texas at El Paso

University of Texas at El Paso

The University of Texas at El Paso is a four-year state university, and is a component institution of the University of Texas System. Its campus is located on the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The school was founded in 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy,...

donated. So their colors are orange blue and white and that's how the Canutillo got its Colors.