Mayfield High School (New Mexico)
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Mayfield High School is one of three traditional public high schools in Las Cruces
, New Mexico
. As of 2009-2010, the school has over 2,300 students and 130 teachers, and covers grades 9-12. The school is a part of the Las Cruces Public Schools district.
The school colors were chosen in 1967 as green and gold, the Green Bay Packers
' colors, who were the National Football League
champions in that year. The mascot Trojan was chosen the same year, largely because the University of Southern California
Trojans won the NCAA football Championship.
The current block scheduling
system of four ninety-minute classes per day was instituted in 1995. Students choose new classes every semester.
The students choose among thirteen focus areas that include: Agriculture
, Food
and Natural Resources
; Architecture
and Construction
; Arts
, A/V Technology
and Communication
; Business Management and Administration; Health Science; Hospitality and Tourism
; Human Services; Information Technology
; Law
, Public Safety
and Security
; Manufacturing
; Marketing
, Sales
and Service
; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
; Transportation, Distribution
and Logistics
. Students, parents, and faculty collaborate through advising to schedule classes that will best equip the student for college or work.
, and Future Farmers of America. Music includes Band
, Choir
and Orchestra
. Modern foreign language clubes include French, German, and Spanish. Among the others are National Honor Society
, Broadcasting, Art Club, Key Club
, Yearbook, Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA), and Theater Productions.
The Trojan football team has been the most successful school athletic program with 15 appearances in the state title game; winning the state championship eight times (1971, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010) and finishing runnerup seven times (1972, 1976, 1987, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009).
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the county seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 97,618 in 2010 according to the 2010 Census, making it the second largest city in the state....
, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
. As of 2009-2010, the school has over 2,300 students and 130 teachers, and covers grades 9-12. The school is a part of the Las Cruces Public Schools district.
History
MHS was opened in 1965 after Las Cruces High School became overcrowded. It became the second high school in Las Cruces. The school was named for former Las Cruces Public Schools superintendent Thomas J. Mayfield.The school colors were chosen in 1967 as green and gold, the Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
' colors, who were the National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
champions in that year. The mascot Trojan was chosen the same year, largely because the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
Trojans won the NCAA football Championship.
The current block scheduling
Block scheduling
Block scheduling is a type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day but each class is scheduled for a longer period of time . A student might be taking 7 different classes, but only 4 per day, and the specific daily classes would rotate through a changing daily cycle...
system of four ninety-minute classes per day was instituted in 1995. Students choose new classes every semester.
Academics
MHS is a comprehensive high school offering students the opportunity to explore both academic and technical objectives. It runs a 4 x 4 block schedule. That is, the students take four ninety-minute classes each semester.The students choose among thirteen focus areas that include: Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
, Food
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...
and Natural Resources
Natural Resources
Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who"...
; Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
and Construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
; Arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
, A/V Technology
Audio-visual
The term Audio-Visual may refer to works with both a sound and a visual component, the production or use of such works, or to equipment used to create and present such works...
and Communication
Communication studies
Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
; Business Management and Administration; Health Science; Hospitality and Tourism
Hospitality management studies
Hospitality management is the academic study of the hospitality industry. A degree in Hospitality management is often conferred from either a university college dedicated to the studies of hospitality management or a business school with a department in hospitality management studies...
; Human Services; Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
; Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
, Public Safety
Public Safety
Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters .-See also:* By nation...
and Security
Security
Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...
; Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
; Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
, Sales
Sales
A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity....
and Service
Customer service
Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.According to Turban et al. , “Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer...
; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
STEM fields
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; Transportation, Distribution
Distribution (business)
Product distribution is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user.The other three parts of the marketing mix are product, pricing,...
and Logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
. Students, parents, and faculty collaborate through advising to schedule classes that will best equip the student for college or work.
Activities
The student activities and clubs are wide and varied. Career-oriented programs include Air Force Junior ROTC, which is the only in southern New MexicoNew Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, and Future Farmers of America. Music includes Band
School band
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...
, Choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
and Orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
. Modern foreign language clubes include French, German, and Spanish. Among the others are National Honor Society
National Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
, Broadcasting, Art Club, Key Club
Key Club
Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
, Yearbook, Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA), and Theater Productions.
Demographics
MHS racial demographics across its 2348 students show primarily hispanic and caucasian. By gender, 51% of the students are male; 49% are female. The racial breakdown shows 40% hispanic, 58% caucasian, .001% black, 1% asian, and 1% indian. The educational demographics show 26% are gifted and 74% are normal.Test scores
School accountability testing indicates MHS is not meeting federal standards and shows 48.5% in reading and 67.5% in math are not proficient. There is a marked racial difference between hispanics and caucasians in reading and math non-proficiency, which is 56.9% and 74.0% for hispanics and 30.5% and 53.4% for caucasians, respectively. The school's graduation rate is 61.5%.Athletics
The MHS athletics department supports various boys and girls sports. The department is currently headed by an athletics director, who is subordinate to school district athletics director, Ernest Viramontes.The Trojan football team has been the most successful school athletic program with 15 appearances in the state title game; winning the state championship eight times (1971, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010) and finishing runnerup seven times (1972, 1976, 1987, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009).
List of Teams
Boys Athletics:
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Girls Athletics:
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State championships
- Football (1971, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010)
- Cheerleading Co-Ed (Team- 2006) Partner Stunt (2006)
- Baseball (1981)
- Basketball, Girls (2004, 2007, 2011)
- Golf, Boys (Team: 1986, 1989, 2006); (Individual: 1972-Matt Sugarman, 2006-Brent Jones)
- Golf, Girls (Team: 1990, 1991)
- Tennis, Girls (Singles: 1988-Tom Easterling, 1989-Tom Easterling, 2000-Margaret Moscato, 2005-Jenny Moscato)
- Tennis, Girls (Doubles: 1988-Ross/Galves, 1989-Ross/Galves, 1990-Ross/Galves, 1991-Easterling/Martineau, 2003-Moscato/Moscato)
- Tennis, Boys (Team: 2010); (Doubles: 2006-Johnny Thompson/Craig Duran, 2007-Hooker/Turbyfill, 2009-O'Dell/Mayars)
- Track, Boys (Team: 1987)
- Track, Boys (Individual: 1978-Ben Lucero-High Jump, 1978-Ben Morales-Pole Vault, 1980-Ben Lucero-High Jump, 1983-H.R. McAdams-Javelin, 1984-Daniel Leffall-100m, 1984-Davie Salas-400m, 1984-800m Relay; 1987 - 1600m Relay; 1989 - Reggie Stewart-110m High Hurdles; 1990 - Darius Holland-Shot Put; 1991 - Darius Holland-Shot Put; 1998 - John Martinez-110m High Hurdles, Justin Massey-300m Hurdles; 2004 - Alaniz/Lawson/Avila/Gonzales-800m Relay; Jeremy Lawson-Triple Jump; 2008 - 1600m Relay)
- Track, Girls (Individual: 1985 - Carolyn Unglaub-High Jump; 1990 - 400m Relay, 1600m Relay Medley; 1992 - Michelle Apodaca-100m; 2005 - Carissa McGee-400m, Astorga/Murrafo/McGee/Morris-800m Relay, Carissa McGee-High Jump; 2008 - 1600m Relay; 2008 4 x 400 Relay Amber Lalla/Jena Benegas/Amy Gonzales/Justina Apodaca; 2010 4 x 100 Relay Amber Lalla/Jena Benegas/Justina Apodaca/Kacee Ramos
- Volleyball (2004, 2008)
- Wrestling (Team: 1979)
- Wrestling (Individual: 2006 - Jimmy Nevarez III; 2007 - Jimmy Nevarez III; 2003 - Evan Copeland; 1995 - Amador Martinez; 1993 - Manny Herrera; 1991 - Nathan Brown; 1984 - Ray Aaltonen; 1981 - Alan Cook; 1979 - Eddie Gomez, Steve Roberts; 1976 - Don Bales; 1975 - Don Bales; 1973 - Carl Ortega; 1971 - Albert Bouranda)
- Swimming, Boys (1967 - Robert Frank-Breast Stroke)
Notable alumni
- Darius HollandDarius HollandDarius Jerome Holland is a former American football defensive tackle who played ten seasons in the US National Football League. He went to Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico and the University of Colorado at Boulder. His nickname with the Packers was 'Dirty D'....
- former professional defensive endDefensive endDefensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...
in the National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing... - Edgar Castillo, class of 2004 - professional soccer player
- Doug EddingsDoug EddingsDouglas Leon Eddings is an umpire in Major League Baseball. He came to public attention with a controversial call during Game Two of the 2005 American League Championship Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.Eddings started umpiring Little League games at 14,...
- Major League BaseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
umpire - George Willis - New York PostNew York PostThe New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
sports columnist