Manzano High School

Manzano High School is a public high school located in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Albuquerque Public Schools system.While still sophomores, Manzano's first senior class attended classes at Sandia High School (1959-1960), sharing the facility. The next school year (1960-1961), the Manzano students, now juniors, along with the new sophomore class, started the year at Sandia, and, when the new school was ready, moved into Manzano High on December 19, 1960. Seniors in that year were allowed to stay at Sandia, regardless of which district they lived in, and so the new school opened with only sophomores and juniors attending. The first senior class was graduated at the end of the next school year, on June 6, 1962. The school has now been in operation at its original location for over fifty years.The current principal is Dr. Karen Webb.AthleticsMHS competes in the New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA), as a class 6A school in District 2. In 2014, NMAA realigned the state's schools into six classifications and adjusted district boundaries. In addition to Manzano High School, the schools in District 2-6A include Sandia High School, La Cueva High School, Eldorado High School and Highland High School.In 1988, Manzano High School hosted the National Association of Student Councils National Conference which was led in effort by Activities Director/Student Council Adviser Libby Tilley, who served as Executive Director of the New Mexico Association of Student Councils for roughly 18 years from 1993 to 2011.