Andress High School

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Andress High School
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Andress High School
5400 Sun Valley Drive
El Paso, Texas 79924

United States
Coordinates 31°54′38″N106°25′08″W / 31.91056°N 106.41889°W / 31.91056; -106.41889
Information
Type Public
Established1961
School district El Paso Independent School District
Faculty104.32 (on FTE basis) [1]
Grades 9 to 12
Enrollment1,560 (2017–18) [1]
Student to teacher ratio14.95 [1]
Color(s)Maroon and Gold   
Athletics conference1-5A
MascotGolden Eagle
Website andress.episd.org

Andress High School is a public high school located on the northeast side of El Paso, Texas. The school serves about 2,000 students in the El Paso Independent School District. It is located in the Sun Valley neighborhood [2] at the intersection of Sun Valley Drive and Mackinaw Street. Andress High is currently the northernmost of EPISD's ten comprehensive high schools, serving the portion of Northeast El Paso between the Franklin Mountains and McCombs Street and north of Woodrow Bean Transmountain Road (Texas Loop 375) west of Girl Scout Way and Fairbanks Drive east of it, up to the New Mexico state line. Virtually all of the northern half of the Andress attendance zone, that is, north of Loma Real Avenue, is undeveloped land, most of it slated for future residential development. A new high school, as yet unnamed, which will serve what is now the portion of the Andress attendance zone north of the Patriot Freeway (US 54) to the New Mexico state line, is in the planning stages, and was originally slated to be built using funding from a 2007 bond issue; however, in 2014 it was decided by the EPISD board of managers that development of the area did not yet justify a new high school and the funds set aside for its construction were reallocated. The money allocated went to Franklin High School.

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Andress High's feeder schools include H.E. Charles, Nolan Richardson, and Terrace Hills Middle Schools; the elementary schools in the Andress feeder pattern include Barron, Bradley, Collins, Fannin, Tom Lea, Newman, and Nixon. [3] Terrace Hills, whose attendance zone extends south of Woodrow Bean Transmountain Road, also graduates into Irvin High.

Andress High was named for local attorney and school board member Theodore A. (Ted) Andress, who was murdered at the El Paso airport by a mentally unbalanced man he had been feuding with just before the school opened in 1961. [4]

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  2. ↑ "Andress H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 2 December 2008. "Students: 1,992 (2005-2006)
  3. ↑ "El Paso Independent School District / Homepage". www.episd.org.
  4. ↑ Great American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 by John R. Vile (ABC-CLIO; 2001), p.274.
  5. ↑ "Clubs & Activities - Andress High School". andress.episd.org. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  6. ↑ Bain, Matthew (3 July 2021). "Iowa State football lands 3-star Texas safety Jeremiah Cooper". Des Moines-Register. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  7. ↑ Deaver, Collin (15 September 2023). "Andress grad Jeremiah Cooper off to great start to sophomore season at Iowa State". KTSM. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  8. ↑ Maiocco, Matt (November 1, 2000). "Best of Friends, Devoted Brothers". Santa Rosa Press Democrat. ...football star at Andress High School... (Newsbank)
  9. ↑ Allushuski, Ty (July 27, 2006). "For some NFL players, charity begins at school". USA Today . Retrieved 2008-12-02.
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