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 at the corner of Jupiter and Main Streets on land donated by Mr. Harris Brown.[5][6]
In August 1999, Allen High School "2000," a new facility at the corner of Greenville and Rivercrest, 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 Avenue. 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.[7] 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.
Location
Freshman Center (9): 368 N Greenville Ave, Allen, TX 75002
Main Campus (10–12): 300 Rivercrest Blvd. Allen, TX 75002
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%.[8]
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 features a Career and Technical Education (CTE) campus known as the STEAM Center, which opened in 2019 at a cost of $40 million.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13] Dual credit courses, in partnership with Collin College, moved from the main campus on Rivercrest to the CTE campus upon opening.[4]
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.[15] Thirteen players from Allen have made their way to play professionally in the NFL.[16]
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.[65][66] It is the fifth largest high school stadium in the state, but the largest designed for the use of only one team.[67] The facility houses a weight room, wrestling practice facility, and indoor golfing facility.[68]
2014 - Scholastic Clay Target Program overall national champions[citation needed]
Band
The Allen Escadrille claims to be the country's largest high school marching band, with a membership of over 800 students.[84] 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.[85] The band won the 4A State Marching Band Competition two years in a row, 1987 and 1988.[86][87]
Notable performances:
1994 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland (the only high school band chosen to play at the Dublin Lord Mayors Ball)[citation needed]
2011 - 1st place in Culinary at the Texas ProStart Competition in Austin, TX.[88] 17th place at the National ProStart Competition.[citation needed]
2011 – Named a Grammy Signature Gold School,[89] recognizing Allen as a U.S. public high school making an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year.
2011–2012 - Chorale Choir was invited to perform at the Texas Music Educators Association's annual convention. A recording of their performance was published om Spotify in 2012.[90] The TMEA event invites by audition only the top 5 schools in the state.[citation needed]
News Media - The broadcast program, KGLE 3 Teen News. Between 1996 and 2006, the program was awarded five first places, two-second places, and one-third place in Best of Shows at the National Scholastic Press Association's biannual competition.[citation needed] It has also been a four-time Pacemaker broadcast award winner (200, 2002, 2003, 2004).[citation needed] The KGLE program includes a radio broadcast.
Orchestra - The orchestra was invited to perform at The International Midwest Clinic and Convention in 2006.[91]
Photography - Association of Texas Photography Instructors (ATPI) Top Program Contests
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