Del Norte High School

• Name — Del Norte High School • Motto — The Right Way, The Knight Way • Type — Public high school • Principal — Edward Bortot • Colors — Turquoise black Black white White • Athletic Conference — NMAA, AAAA Dist. 5 • Mascot — Knight • Enrollment — 1,066 (2023–24) • Ratio — 15.34 • Staff — 69.50 (FTE) • Address — 5323 Montgomery Blvd. NE • City — Albuquerque • State — New Mexico • Zipcode — 87109 • Country — United States • Website — https: delnorte.aps.edu/

2023–2024: • Ethnicity • Hispanic — 59% • American Indian/Alaskan Native — 18% • White — 10% • Black — 4.1% • Asian — 3.5% • Multiracial — 4.6%

DNHS competes in the New Mexico Activities Association 5A-District 2, which also includes Bernalillo High School, Capital High School, Espanola Valley High School and Los Alamos High School. DNHS has won 11 State Championships from NMAA sanctioned sports and events: • NMAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS • Season — Sport — Number of Championships || Year • Fall — Cross Country, Boys — 2 — 1982, 1966 • Football — 1 — 1974 • Wrestling — 1 — 2001 • Spring — Co-ed Cheerleading — 1 — 2008 • Spring — Baseball — 1 — 1982 • Softball — 2 — 1989, 1984 • Track & Field, Boys — 3 — 1990, 1969, 1967 • Spring — Basketball — 1 — 2021 — Total — 11

• Scott Bamforth, Professional basketball player, school's all-time leading scorer • Leah Clark, voice actress affiliated with Funimation • Darren Dalton, actor (class of 1983) • Mark L. Donald, Navy SEAL combat corpsman, one of the most decorated heroes of the War on Terror (class of 1985) • Carlos Etheredge, NFL tight end • Karen Montoya, member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission • Diego Sanchez, NMAA Wrestling State Champion; professional mixed martial artist, Won The Ultimate Fighter 1, currently competing in the UFC's Lightweight Division • Lauren Sánchez, News Anchor and actress (class of 1987) • French Stewart, actor (class of 1982) • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Best selling author

Del Norte High School is mentioned in the novel Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan as the high school where the main characters go to school.

The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) replaced the federal "No Child Left Behind Act" and AYP school rating tests in 2010 with a grading algorithm that uses several testing criteria including student standardized test scores and graduation rates. • School Year — Grade from NMPED • 2010–11 — B

• Illustration — Congressmember Deb Haaland addressing students in 2019. Construction of the new main building was completed in May, 2012. During the "A Knight to Remember" event in June, 2012, public tours of the new buildings were given by students and staff.