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About Pueblo City Schools
Pueblo's first school building was a one-room adobe hut built near the Fountain River around 1862. As the population grew, additional buildings and teachers were added; in 1866� �School District One� served what was then the north side of town.�������
The town of South Pueblo was laid out in 1872.� In the summer of 1873, �District� Twenty� was organized; at that time a one-room schoolhouse was built on South Union Avenue.�Additionally, the�small districts 22, 43, and 45 existed briefly, but were quickly absorbed into the larger two districts.�� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������
The existence of these two school districts in� Pueblo gave rise to the oldest high school football rivalry west of the�Mississippi River � a game that is still played annually. Pueblo District One's new Centennial High School opened January 9, 1878 with four staff members.� Across town in South Pueblo's District Twenty,� Central High School� opened three years later in 1881 with seven staff members. Central and Centennial met in their first football game in the fall of 1892 � the first football game most Pueblo residents had ever seen.� Since then the �Bell Game� has been an annual event drawing current students, alumni and community members together at� Pueblo's Dutch Clark Stadium. �
Pueblo School Districts One and Twenty were consolidated into� Pueblo School �District 60� on March 4, 1946.� Once again in 2006 the district underwent a name change when it became �Pueblo City Schools.�� As the city has grown, so has the district, which now enrolls more than 18,000 students.� More than 140 years of traditions, community support and successes have helped lead Pueblo City Schools as it develops into a world-class school district.��
