Capital High School is a three-year public secondary school in Boise, Idaho, United States. Opened in the fall of 1965, it was the third of four public high schools constructed in the Boise School District, and serves its northern portion. The other high schools are Boise (1902) in the east, Borah (1958) in the southwest, and Timberline (1998) in the southeast.
The Capital High boundary includes sections of Eagle and Garden City.
Athletics
Capital competes in athletics in IHSAA Class 5A in the Southern Idaho Conference (5A) (SIC). The longtime rivals are Boise and Borah. The tennis team has won 16 state titles, including five consecutive from 1972 to 1976. The boys basketball team won four consecutive A-1 (now 5A) state titles from 1975 to 1978.
State titles
Boys
Football (2): fall 1983, 1991 (official with introduction of playoffs, fall 1979) (unofficial poll titles - 2) - fall 1974, 1977 (poll introduced in 1963, through 1978) Cross Country (2): fall 1965, 1977, 2004, 2013 Basketball (6): 1968, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2014 Baseball (3): 1989, 2009, 2014 (records not kept by IHSAA) Track (5): 1974, 1979, 1980, 1985, 2009, 2015 Golf (1): 1974 Tennis - (combined until 2008, see below)
Girls
Cross Country (1): fall 1980
Basketball (1): 1977
Track (3): 1981, 1984, 1988
Combined
Tennis (16): 1968, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2007 (combined until 2008)
Notable alumni
Matthew Barney (1985), artist
Geraldo Boldewijn, American football player
Randy Davison, American actor
Ben Driebergen, former U.S. Marine, winner of Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers Hailey Duke, alpine ski racer Rep. Annette (Williams) Glenn, Michigan House of Representatives. Source: http://www.RepGlenn.com John Grant (1968), NFL defensive lineman Bryan Harsin (1994), college football head coach Ernie Hughes, NFL player Marques McFadden (1995), former NFL offensive guard Jake Plummer (1993), former NFL quarterback Tobias Read (1993), politician (Oregon House of Representatives) Bill Sali (1972), former congressman Gary Stevens (1981), thoroughbred horse racing jockey Curtis Stigers (1983), musician Gary Wimmer, American football player