Allen High School | |
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300 Rivercrest Boulevard , , 75002 | |
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Type | Public, co-educational high school |
Motto | Home of the Allen Eagles |
Established | 1910 |
School district | Allen Independent School District |
NCES District ID | 4807890 [1] |
Superintendent | Robin Bullock [2] |
NCES School ID | 480789000117 [1] |
Principal | Matt Russell [3] |
Faculty | 277.75 (FTE) [1] |
Grades | 9–12 [1] |
Enrollment | 5,317 (2022–23) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 19.14 [1] |
Campus size | 177 acres (720,000 m2) |
Color(s) | Navy White Red |
Fight song | Across the Field |
Athletics | UIL Class 6A |
Mascot | American Bald Eagle |
Website | Allen High School |
Allen High School is a public, co-educational secondary school in Allen, Texas (United States). It is the only high school in the Allen Independent School District.
Allen High School serves most of the city of Allen. Until fall 2006, when Lovejoy High School opened, Allen High School served high school students in the Lovejoy Independent School District, which includes the city of Lucas, most of Fairview, a portion of Parker and a small portion of Plano. [4]
The first Allen High School, built in 1910 at the corner of Belmont and Cedar, was a two-story brick building housing six classrooms and an auditorium, and saw the first graduating class of eight students in 1914.
The second Allen High School was established in 1959 on land donated by Mr. Harris Brown on the corner of Jupiter and Main Streets. [5]
August 1999 saw the opening of Allen High School "2000," a new facility (at the corner of Greenville and Rivercrest) which opened to 2,200 students in grades 10 through 12. The former high school was converted into the Becky Lowery Freshman Center, named in honor of a former middle school teacher and school counselor. In 2018, the building was partly demolished and replaced with a new building on an adjacent plot of land on Greenville Ave. The southernmost part of the school was renovated into the Dillard Special Achievement Center, while the northern section became a parking lot. The football stadium still stands. The new building became the Freshman Center and started serving grade 9 students during the 2018–19 school year. It had an enrollment of 1,634 in 2015–16. [6] A major expansion of the main high school campus was completed in 2011. This expansion included a new 1,500 seat performing arts center, an expansion of band hall space and a Career and Technology Education center featuring a student-managed restaurant open to the public, a student-managed apparel store with student-designed items, multiple new Mac labs, Mac-equipped rooms for the photojournalism, yearbook, commercial photography, audiovisual, radio, and newspaper classes as well as learning-classrooms for the medical education programs. The final expansion was completed in 2018. This expansion included an auxiliary gymnasium and an expanded fine arts hallway. This expansion also included renovations to the gymnasium, cafeteria, library and academic-hallways, which include "huddle spaces" for collaborative learning.
Allen High School offers the International Baccalaureate program to its students, with the class of 2002 being the first to graduate Full Diploma. AHS also provides Advanced Placement, Dual Credit, and elective courses. AP course enrollment at AHS is 52%. [7]
Allen uses a modified block schedule, utilizing five standard periods per day. Tenth grade students are required to be present for four of these, while juniors and seniors are only required to attend three.
Allen High School was named a 2001–02 National Blue Ribbon School [8] and a 2004 TEA Pathfinder School.[ citation needed ] For the 2021-2022 school year, the school was given an "A" by the Texas Education Agency. [9]
Allen High School features a Career and Technical Education (CTE) campus known as the STEAM Center, which opened in 2019 at a cost of $40 million. [10] The 111,000-square-foot facility supports various CTE programs for the high school, and hosts educational field trips for elementary and middle school students. [11] The STEAM Center can accommodate over 500 students simultaneously and includes a range of advanced amenities, such as an OmniGlobe, a large maker space, and a lake. Additionally, it features a dedicated K-8 center specifically designed for field trip activities. The STEAM Center operates on a schedule separate and independent from the main high school campus. [12] Dual credit courses, in partnership with Collin College, moved from the main campus on Rivercrest to the CTE campus upon opening. [4]
As of 2021 [update] Allen High has the largest University Interscholastic League (UIL) athletic program of any Texas high school. [13]
Programs include:
For over twenty-five years, the Allen Eagles football team has been one of the top high school football programs in Texas, qualifying for post season play in every season from 1999 to 2023. During this time, the team won five state championships (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017), appeared in ten final fours (2003, 2006, 2008, 2012-2018), won 16 district titles in a row (2006-2021), and achieved a won-loss record of 234-28 from 2004 through 2022. [14] Thirteen players from Allen have made their way to play professionally in the NFL. [15]
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Season | Conf | Dist | Coach | Overall record | District record | Playoff record | UIL Ref |
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1936 | C | 3 | Frank Smith (4-10) | 2-4 | |||
1937 | 0-5 | ||||||
1938 | 10 | 2-0 | |||||
1939 | 0-1 | ||||||
1940 | 6-Man | 4 | Jack Murray (10-0) | 9-0 | |||
1941 | 1-0 | ||||||
1942 | 11 | No season WW II | |||||
1943 | |||||||
1944 | 9 | ||||||
1945 | W.H. Moseley (23-4) | 0-1 | |||||
1946 | 10 | 4-1 | 0-1 | [16] | |||
1947 | 4-1 | 0-1 | [17] | ||||
1948 | 12 | 9-0 | 1-0 | [18] | |||
1949 | 6-1 | 0-1 | [19] | ||||
1950 | 15 | Gene Curtis (33-4-1) | 9-1 | 0-1 | [20] | ||
1951 | 7-1 | ||||||
1952 | 14 | 8-1-1 | 0-1 | [21] | |||
1953 | 9-1 | ||||||
1954 | Lee Roundtree (14-6) | 10-1 | 1-1 | [22] | |||
1955 | 4-5 | ||||||
1956 | 15 | Max Vaughn (68-21-6) | 7-2-1 | 0-1 | [23] | ||
1957 | 7-2 | ||||||
1958 | 8-Man | 7 | 10-0 | 1-0 | [24] | ||
1959 | 10-0 | 1-0 | [25] | ||||
1960 | 12-0 | 2-0 [a] | [26] | ||||
1961 | 8-2-2 | ||||||
1962 | B | 12 | 9-2-1 | 1-1 | [27] | ||
1963 | 0-9-1 | ||||||
1964 | 10 | 5-4-1 | |||||
1965 | Bob Painter (25-27) | 6-5 | 0-1 | [28] | |||
1966 | 9 | 4-6 | |||||
1967 | 3-7 | ||||||
1968 | 12 | 5-5 | |||||
1969 | 7-4 | 0-1 | [29] | ||||
1970 | 1A | 13 | Pete Turman | 1-9 | |||
1971 | Jim Clark (23-16-3) | 2-5-3 | |||||
1972 | 16 | 6-4 | |||||
1973 | 8-4 | 0-1 | [30] | ||||
1974 | 15 | 7-3 | |||||
1975 | John Pearce (50-21-1) | 6-4 | |||||
1976 | 2A | 12 | 6-4 | ||||
1977 | 2-8 | ||||||
1978 | 8-2 | ||||||
1979 | 9-1 | ||||||
1980 | 3A | 11 | 11-1 | 1-1 | [31] | ||
1981 | 8-1-1 | ||||||
1982 | 4A | 5 | Ken Purcell (69-66-2) | 6-4 | |||
1983 | 10-1 | 0-1 | [32] | ||||
1984 | 7 | 1-9 | |||||
1985 | 3-7 | ||||||
1986 | 5 | 10-3 | 1-1 | [33] | |||
1987 | 10-3 | 1-1 | [34] | ||||
1988 | 9 | 6-4 | |||||
1989 | 5-5 | ||||||
1990 | 6-4 | ||||||
1991 | 3-6 | ||||||
1992 | 5A | 30 | 5-5 | ||||
1993 | 2-7 | ||||||
1994 | 5A I | 5 | 2-8 | ||||
1995 | Todd Graham (35-30-1) | 4-5-1 | |||||
1996 | 5A I | 10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | [35] | ||
1997 | 4-7 | 0-1 | [36] | ||||
1998 | 5A II | 9 | 3-7 | ||||
1999 | 8-3 | 0-1 | [37] | ||||
2000 | 9-3 | 1-1 | [38] | ||||
2001 | Joe Martin (31-9) | 10-3 | 2-1 | [39] | |||
2002 | 8-4 | 1-1 | [40] | ||||
2003 | 13-2 | 4-1 | [41] | ||||
2004 | 5A I | 8 | Tom Westerberg (150-17) | 9-3 | 6-1 | 1-1 | [42] |
2005 | 9-3 | 6-1 | 1-1 | [43] | |||
2006 | 5A II | 9 | 13-2 | 7-0 | 4-1 | [44] | |
2007 | 10-1 | 7-0 | 0-1 | [45] | |||
2008 | 5A I | 8 | 15-1 | 6-0 | 6-0 | [46] | |
2009 | 12-2 | 6-0 | 1-1 | [47] | |||
2010 | 10-2 | 6-1 | 1-1 | [48] | |||
2011 | 11-1 | 7-0 | 1-1 | [49] | |||
2012 | 5A II | 10 | 15-1 | 5-0 | 6-0 | [50] | |
2013 | 16-0 | 5-0 | 6-0 | [51] | |||
2014 | 6A I | 6 | 16-0 | 8-0 | 6-0 | [52] | |
2015 | 14-1 | 8-0 | 4-1 | [53] | |||
2016 | Terry Gambill (65-4) | 14-1 | 7-0 | 4-1 | [54] | ||
2017 | 16-0 | 7-0 | 6-0 | [55] | |||
2018 | 6A II | 9 | 14-1 | 7-0 | 4-1 | [56] | |
2019 | 11-1 | 7-0 | 1-1 | [57] | |||
2020 | 6A I | 5 | 10-1 | 6-0 | 2-1 | [58] | |
2021 | Chad Morris | 11-3 | 5-1 | 3-1 | [59] | ||
2022 | Lee Wiginton (29-10) | 7-4 | 5-2 | 0-1 | [60] | ||
2023 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 3-1 | [61] | |||
2024 | 6 | 13-1 | 8-0 | 3-1 | |||
Totals | 639-257-14 | 141-8 [b] | 82-37 |
Additional table references: MaxPreps, [14] Texas High School Football History, [62] and Lone Star Football. [63]
Due to the program's popularity and student population, the school was authorized, via an approved April 2009 referendum, to build an 18,000-seat stadium for the team. The stadium cost nearly $60 million, and opened for the 2012 football season. [64] [65] It is the fifth largest high school stadium in the state, but the largest designed for the use of only one team. [66] The facility houses a weight room, wrestling practice facility, and indoor golfing facility. [67]
The Allen Escadrille claims to be the country's largest high school marching band, with a membership of over 800 students. [83] They perform at pre-game and halftime of all Allen varsity football games, participate in Texas UIL competitions, and perform in parades and at other venues. The band was invited to perform in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2009, and performed in the 2006 and 2016 Rose Parades in Pasadena, California. The band received the Sudler Shield Award from the John Philip Sousa Foundation in 2003. [84] The band won the 4A State Marching Band Competition two years in a row, 1987 and 1988. [85] [86]
Notable performances:
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