Idaho Falls High School is a four-year public secondary school in central Idaho Falls, Idaho. The current building opened in 1952, though the school itself has been in operation for well over a century. Idaho Falls is the older of the two traditional high schools, the other is Skyline, in the Idaho Falls School District #91. The school colors are orange and black and its teams are the Tigers; the mascot is known as Teeger.
History
As the oldest high school in the city of Idaho Falls, IFHS was established in 1897. The first building was a three-story structure on the corner of North Water and Walnut Street, behind what would later become O. E. Bell Junior High School. Following the construction of a larger building that occupied the entire block between 6th and 7th Streets and S. Boulevard and South Lee Avenue, the original school building became the school district administration building and was also used for overflow classrooms as part of O.E. Bell Jr. High. It was later razed and is now part of the parking lot behind the present O.E. Bell office building. When the current campus on South Holmes Avenue opened in 1952, the building on 7th Street became Central Junior High School, which burned down on April 24, 1973. The Civic Auditorium was concurrently constructed by the city in 1952, adjacent to the then-new Idaho Falls High School, and remains a major center for performing arts in the area. The school newspaper is the Tiger Times and the yearbook is The Spud Annual. Paul Haack wrote the school songDear Old I.F. High in 1927. The school district added the freshman class to the high schools in August 2012.
Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 1,179 students in 2014–2015 was:
Male - 47.6%
Female - 52.4%
Native American/Alaskan - 0.6%
Asian/Pacific islanders - 1.3%
Black - 0.7%
Hispanic - 18.4%
White - 75.5%
Multiracial - 3.5%
33.6% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.
The primary rival is Skyline, the other traditional high school in the school district, opened in the late 1960s on the west side of the city. IFHS and SHS share an outdoor football and track stadium adjacent to IFHS. The stadium is called Ravsten Stadium in honor of VerNon Frank Ravsten. Each year the two rivals face off in a game of football to decide the color of the goal posts at Ravsten Stadium. This game vs Skyline is known as The Emotion Bowl. The Emotion Bowl has been consistently ranked as one of the top 10 rivalries in the country and ranked at number 4 in the country in 2004. Another rival is nearby Bonneville to the northeast, opened in 1957, which moved up to Class 5A in 2014. Hillcrest in Ammon, opened in 1992, is also in the adjacent Bonneville School District and is a conference foe. Prior to the late 1950s, the main rival was Pocatello.
State titles
Boys
Football : fall 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 '
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Cross Country : fall 1995, 1996, 2002, 2017, 2018 '
