The answer to that question is yes. The story gets a little complicated.
There had been high school students in Las Vegas soon after the 1905 railroad auction. My alma mater, Las Vegas High School, opened in 1930. At the time, Las Vegans thought school superintendent Maude Frazier might have gone crazy. A 500-seat high school? Really? Would there be enough students to fill it? And it was at the outskirts of town, at Seventh and Bridger.
By the early 1950s, Boulder City High School and Henderson’s Basic had joined Las Vegas High. But Las Vegas was growing fast. It needed another high school. Then came Rancho. Its groundbreaking occurred in March 1954. Its building opened in 1955 at the southeast corner of Owens and Bruce in Las Vegas … and in North Las Vegas. We told you it was complicated…