Edinburg High School

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Edinburg High School
Location
Edinburg High School
2600 E. Wisconsin Road

Edinburg
,
Texas
78542

United States
Coordinates 26°15′51″N98°08′30″W / 26.2642°N 98.1417°W / 26.2642; -98.1417
Information
Type Public high school
Established1917 (1917)
School district Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District
PrincipalDominic Pena
Teaching staff166.59 (FTE) [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment2,352 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio14.12 [1]
ColorsRed, blue, and white [2]
   
Athletics conference University Interscholastic League 6A
Nickname Bobcats [2]
Website edinburg.ecisd.us

Edinburg High School (EHS) is a comprehensive public high school in Edinburg, Texas. It is operated by the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District along with Edinburg North High School, Robert Vela High School, and Johnny G. Economedes High School. It has enrolled 2,927 students [3] and 175 staff, with 35% holding advanced degrees; its enrollment is 95% Hispanic, 4% White, and 1% Asian/Pacific Islander.

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A performing arts complex was built at Edinburg in 2010, during which time similar facilities were built at the other high schools. [4]

Edinburg High serves sections of southeastern Edinburg along with several census-designated places: [5] [6] Murillo, [7] San Carlos, [8] and a portion of Lopezville. [9]

History

It was previously in Murillo (formerly Nurillo), a census-designated place in Hidalgo County, Texas. [7] [10] It was previously outside the Edinburg city limits. [11]

In 2013, the City of Edinburg annexed about 2,000 acres (810 ha) of land, including the plot the school is located on. [12] The school is now a part of the Edinburg city limits, and it is no longer in the Murillo CDP. [13]

Notable alumni

Emmanuel Duron Incident

In December 2020, the school received national attention after Emmanuel Duron, a defensive lineman on the football team who had been named District 31-6A defensive player of the year in 2019, [14] attacked referee Alfredo "Fred" Gracia during the first half of the zone play-in playoff game against Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School. Duron was ejected from the game for two unsportsmanlike penalties when he attacked Garcia and left him with a concussion; the player was escorted off the field and out of the stadium by police [15] and was charged with Class A assault and was released from county jail after posting a $10,000 bail. [16] Edinburg would win the game 35–21. However, school district officials forfeited the game to Pharr the following day due to Duron's actions. Had the district not acted, the UIL would have done so. [17] The UI placed Edinburg's entire athletic program on probation for two years through the 2022-23 season.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "EDINBURG H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 11, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Edinburg High School". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
  3. ↑ UIL enrollment figures
  4. ↑ "Construction information" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 18, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
  5. ↑ "2015-2016 High Schools Approved Boundaries Archived 2015-12-11 at the Wayback Machine " (Full). Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District. Maps/High%20Schools/EHS.pdf Detail of Edinburg High Zone [ permanent dead link ]. Retrieved on January 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ "SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Hidalgo County, TX." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on January 2, 2017.
  7. 1 2 Murillo Census Bureau map. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on January 2, 2017. Compare to the full address, which indicates the location.
  8. ↑ San Carlos CDP map. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on January 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Lopezville CDP, TX." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ Home Archived 2017-01-04 at the Wayback Machine . Edinburg High School. Retrieved on January 3, 2017. "2600 E. Wisconsin Rd, Edinburg, TX 78542"
  11. ↑ Edinburg Gateway Plan An Agenda For 2025 (PDF) (Map). City of Edinburg. October 4, 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 25, 2010. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  12. ↑ Fischler, Jacob (December 12, 2013). "Edinburg annexes 2,000 acres in 17 areas around the city". The Monitor . pp.  1B, 6B – via Newspapers.com. - The article text does not directly say the school will be annexed. On the map on page 6B, there is a plot of land southeast of the intersection of Wisconsin and 1246 (South Saul Longoria Road) that was to be annexed. That plot contains Edinburg High.
  13. ↑ Edinburg Gateway Plan An Agenda For 2025 (PDF) (Map). City of Edinburg. June 16, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
    Geography Division (April 13, 2021). 2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Edinburg city, TX (PDF) (Map). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved June 20, 2025.
    Geography Division (April 9, 2021). 2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Murillo CDP, TX (PDF) (Map). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved June 20, 2025. - Note the school is at the intersection of South Saul Longoria Road and Wisconsin Road.
  14. ↑ "HS football player slams into ref after ejection". ESPN.com. December 4, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Texas high school team disqualified from football playoffs after player hits referee". Los Angeles Times. December 4, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Edinburg High School player facing assault charge for knocking over ref; team removed from Texas football playoffs". ESPN. December 4, 2020.
  17. ↑ Eisenberg, Jeff (December 4, 2020). "Charges filed against Texas high school football player after attack on referee". Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved December 5, 2020.
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