Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas)

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Location
Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas)
Sugar Land
,
TX
77498

United States
Coordinates 29°38′27″N95°40′38″W / 29.6409°N 95.677229°W / 29.6409; -95.677229
Information
Type Public high school
Established1995;29 years ago (1995)
School district Fort Bend Independent School District
PrincipalRachel Cortez [1]
Teaching staff117.54 (FTE) (2018–19) [2]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment2,200 (2018–19) [2]
Student to teacher ratio18.72 (2018–19) [2]
Color(s)
  •   Black
  •   Red
Athletics conference UIL Class 6A
MascotSpike The Bulldog
USNWR ranking655/27,000 (top 2.5% in nation) [3]
2011 TEA RatingRecognized
Website www.fortbendisd.com/ahs OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Stephen F. Austin High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas [4] and is named after Stephen F. Austin, who helped lead American settlement of Texas, and who is widely regarded as "The Father of Texas." The school happens to be only miles from Austin's original colony in present-day Fort Bend County.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Some areas of Sugar Land, Windsor Estates, and the western portion of the community of New Territory are zoned to Austin. [5] On previous occasions employee housing units of the Jester State Prison Farm (including Jester I Unit, Carol Vance Unit, Jester III Unit) were zoned to Austin. [6]

The school, which serves grades 9-12, is a part of the Fort Bend Independent School District. Although having a Sugar Land, Texas address, the school is located outside the city limits of Sugar Land; only students from New Territory live within the City of Sugar Land. [7]

History

Austin opened in 1995 to alleviate overcrowding from Kempner High School and Clements High School. Austin was FBISD's sixth comprehensive high school. [8]

When Travis High School opened, some of Austin's territory was given to Travis, and Austin took some territory from Kempner High School. In the territories, grades 9 and 10 were immediately zoned to the new high school, [9] and grades 11 to 12 continued to go to the previous high schools with a phaseout of one grade per year. [10]

In 2006 the Smithville area, employee housing of the Central Unit state prison (which housed minor dependents of prison employees) was rezoned from Kempner to Austin, [11] with grades 9-10 immediately zoned to Austin, [12] and grades 11-12 zoned to Kempner, with a phasing in by grade. [10] Smithville had since been rezoned back to Kempner. [5] The main portion of the Central Unit remained zoned to Austin until the unit's 2011 closure. [5] [13] [14]

Campus

Austin is located off of FM 1464, across from Shiloh Lake Estates and Grand Parkway Baptist Church. Surrounding the building are the Summerfield neighborhood to the south, the Safari Texas Ranch banquet on the north side, and the Pheasant Creek neighborhood across a ditch to the east. [15] Nearby are Oyster Creek Elementary School [16] and Macario Garcia Middle School, [17] which are wholly and partially zoned to the school, respectively. [18]

Neighborhoods served

Several different communities within unincorporated Fort Bend County are zoned to Austin, including Old Orchard, Orchard Lake Estates, Stratford Park Village, Summerfield, Pheasent Creek, Park Pointe, Park Pointe Commons, Oak Lake Estates, Village of Oak Lake, Hidden Lake Estates, Shiloh Lake Estates, and the subdivisions of Aliana south of West Airport, which are all zoned to Macario Garcia Middle School. [19] The eastern half of New Territory, which is within the City of Sugar Land, [7] is also zoned to Austin but through Sartartia Middle School instead.

In previous eras, Austin served sections of Mission Bend and Pecan Grove.

Feeder patterns

Feeder elementary schools to Austin include: [20]

Feeder middle schools [21] include:

Music

The SFA Bulldog Band consists of over 150 student performers within its Marching Band, Concert Band, and Full Orchestra. The program encompasses a wide range of musical endeavors, including state and national competitions, as well as individual and ensemble events.

The school's orchestra has participated in the Midwest Clinic, a renowned music conference held annually.

Notable alumni

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