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In 2006, Catalina
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Catalina Foothills School Board had acquired the site in the late 1970s. The school opened to the ninth grade in 1992 when classes met at a district middle school. In 1993 campus was opened to ninth
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rankings of the top high schools ranked CFHS at number 754 out of 21,000 in the country (in the top 4 percent of all public high schools nationally), No. 10 in
Arizona, and No. 3 in Tucson. In 2013, CFHS also ranked 245th amongst all high schools in
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