Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "South Mountain High School" in English language version.
When Roberto Frietz, now 39, was a student at South Mountain High School in the 1970s, a riot brought on by racial tensions broke out at the school.
On October 13, South Mountain was the scene of another riot, which spilled over into the surrounding neighborhood.
The fighting was so out of control on the day of the riot that it was halted only after school security guards, Phoenix police and Department of Public Safety officers entered the fray and separated the black students from the Hispanics. Even then, the fighting shifted off campus, erupting sporadically through the surrounding area.
At South Mountain High, there are 3,600 students enrolled in a school built to handle only 2,500. The overcrowding at the 40-year-old school has been cited by Moody Jackson, South Mountain's principal, as a root cause of the disturbance.
