Sam Houston High School (Arlington, Texas)

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Sam Houston High School
Location
Sam Houston High School (Arlington, Texas)
2000 Sam Houston Drive

Arlington
,
Tarrant County
,
Texas
76014

United States
Coordinates 32°42′12″N97°04′34″W / 32.703341°N 97.076229°W / 32.703341; -97.076229
Information
Type Co-Educational, Public, Secondary
MottoIn the halls of Sam Houston, there are no strangers
Established1963
School district Arlington Independent School District
PrincipalJuan Villarreal
Teaching staff204.10 (FTE) [1]
Grades9-12
Number of students3,177 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio15.57 [1]
Color(s)
  •    
  • Red, white and blue
Athletics UIL Class 5A
MascotThe Long Tall Texan
AccreditationTexas Education Agency
Newspaper"Texans Talk" Newspaper
Yearbook"Cherokee" Yearbook
Website aisd.net/sam
The Sam Houston High School Tex-Annes in the 2021 Arlington Independence Day Parade 2021 Arlington Independence Day Parade 062 (Sam Houston High School Tex-Annes).jpg
The Sam Houston High School Tex-Annes in the 2021 Arlington Independence Day Parade

Sam Houston High School, located in east Arlington, Texas, is a public high school serving grades 9–12.

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It is one of the six high schools comprising the Arlington Independent School District in Arlington, Texas. The current principal is Juan Villarreal.

The school is also known as Sam Houston HS, SHHS, and Big Sam. The mascot is the Long Tall Texan, and the colors are red, white, and blue.

History

Sam Houston HS became Arlington School District's second high school when it opened in 1963 for the fall semester. The first graduating class was the Class of 1965. The school moved from its original location on Browning Drive to its current location on Sam Houston Drive in 1970. The original location became Hutcheson Junior High School.

The first IB graduating class was the Class of 2011. Since then, the school has had the most students participating in the IB program of all the high schools in the district. More than twenty students were awarded with the IB diploma with the Class of 2013.

The original Sam Houston campus was demolished in 2015 [2] and was rebuilt as Dan Dipert Career and Technical Center in 2017. [3] As of 2017, Sam Houston is the largest high school in Tarrant County with over 3,600 students. [4] It is also one of the largest predominantly Hispanic high schools in Texas. In 2017, Sam Houston became the first Arlington ISD high school to open the 9th Grade Center. It was open to make room for freshmen of the 2017–2018 school year. [5] In late fall of 2017, the school opened a second cafeteria addition. [6]

Feeder patterns

Anderson, Blanton, Crouch, Crow, Knox, Patrick, Rankin, Roark, Thornton, and a portion of Berry Elementaries feed into Carter Jr. High. Adams, Amos, Atherton, Goodman, Hale, Johns, Morton, Rankin, and Remynse Elementaries feed into Workman Jr. High. Carter and Workman Jr. Highs feed into Sam Houston.

Academics

Sam Houston HS offers Dual Credit course opportunities at the Southeast Campus of Tarrant County College, a local community college. This is in addition to the following Accelerated Academic programs: [7]

Notable alumni

The Long Tall Texan Award is presented each year at the Sam Houston High School graduation ceremony every spring to the alumni who has positively impacted the SHHS community. Award winners include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "SAM HOUSTON H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Hutcheson Junior High". Arlington Independent School District Bond. Retrieved July 24, 2024.
  3. ↑ "AISD Dan Dipert Career and Technical Center". Arlington Independent School District Bond. Retrieved July 24, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Student Ethnicity Report" (PDF). Arlington Independent School District. November 2, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ "New Sam Houston High School ninth-grade classroom addition opens". Bond - Arlington ISD. August 25, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Sam Houston High School's new cafeteria addition opens". Bond - Arlington ISD. December 12, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Academics - Sam Houston High School". Sam Houston High School. April 7, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Former Student Thasunda Brown Duckett Gifts Kindness Benches to Arlington ISD". www.arlingtontx.gov. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Gosselin: Arlington's Mark Clayton hoping for hometown Super Bowl". Dallas News. August 17, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  10. ↑ "1997 Graduated Senior Bios". GoStanford.com. CBS Sports. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
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