Mission High School (Mission, Texas)

Last updated
Mission High School
Address
Mission High School (Mission, Texas)
1802 Cleo Dawson

,
78572

United States
Coordinates 26°13′23″N98°19′46″W / 26.22306°N 98.32944°W / 26.22306; -98.32944
Information
Type Public
Opened1920s
PrincipalJose Mejia
Faculty163.82 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment2,290 (2018-19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio13.98 [1]
Color(s) Maroon
 White
Nickname Bald Eagles
Website School website

Mission High School is a secondary school located in Mission, Texas. It is a part of the Mission Consolidated Independent School District.

Contents

It serves sections of Mission, Palmhurst, and Alton, as well as the Mission CISD portion of the unincorporated area of West Sharyland. [2] [3]

For many years, Mission High School was the city's only high school. As of 2011, it competed in the 5-A Texas classification was home to some 2,200 students. At its peak, it was home to over 4,000 students before MCISD split the Mission High School attendance zone into two, with the addition of Veterans Memorial High School.

Mission High students were victims of the September 21, 1989 Alton, Texas bus crash; the students' school bus, also carrying students to Mission Junior High, fell into a caliche pit after a collision with a truck, causing 21 deaths. [4]

Notable alumni

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kendleton, Texas</span> City in Texas, United States

Kendleton is a city in western Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located southwest of Sugar Land. It was established by emancipated slaves after the Civil War. The population was 380 at the 2010 census, down from 466 at the 2000 census. As of 2011, Darryl Humphrey was the mayor of the city.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pecan Grove, Texas</span> Census-designated place in Texas, United States

Pecan Grove is a census-designated place and master-planned community within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Richmond in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,782 at the 2020 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alton, Texas</span> City in Texas

Alton is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,198 at the 2020 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mission, Texas</span> City in Texas, United States

Mission is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 85,778 at the 2020 census and an estimated 86,635 in 2022. Mission is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Palmhurst, Texas</span> City in Texas

Palmhurst is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,607 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Sharyland, Texas</span> Census-designated place in Texas

West Sharyland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,309 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission Metropolitan Statistical Area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lamar Consolidated Independent School District</span> School district in Texas, United States

Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, also Lamar Consolidated ISD, Lamar CISD or LCISD, is a public school district in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Metropolitan Area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Conroe Independent School District</span> School district in Texas

Conroe Independent School District (CISD) is a school district in Montgomery County, Texas. The district's headquarters are located in the Deane L. Sadler Administration/Technology Center in Conroe. The CISD area, which covers 348 square miles (900 km2), is part of the Lone Star College System.

San Felipe-Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District (SFDR-CISD) is a school district based in Del Rio, Texas (USA).

La Joya Independent School District is a school district headquartered in La Joya, Texas, United States.

Divide Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Mountain Home in western Kerr County, Texas, United States.

Mission Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Mission, Texas (USA), in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lamar Consolidated High School</span> Public school in Texas, United States

Lamar Consolidated High School is a grades 9–12 school located in Rosenberg, Texas, United States. The school, which serves the City of Richmond, parts of Rosenberg, and unincorporated areas of Fort Bend County, is a part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD). All areas served by LCHS are within the Houston metropolitan area.

Rosharon, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located entirely in Brazoria County, Texas, United States, at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 521 and Farm to Market Road 1462. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,152. There are areas outside of the CDP, with Rosharon postal addresses, in Fort Bend County.

Wilmer-Hutchins High School is a public secondary school in Dallas, Texas (USA). A part of the Dallas Independent School District, Wilmer-Hutchins High was formerly part of the now defunct Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Powell Point, Texas</span> Unincorporated community in Texas, United States

Powell Point is an unincorporated community in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. The community is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fulshear High School</span> Public school in Texas, United States

Churchill Fulshear, Jr. High School is a public senior high school in the LCISD Education Center in Fulshear, Texas, and in the Houston metropolitan area. The school, which serves the LCISD portion of Fulshear, Weston Lakes, and Simonton, is a part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD). The school's namesake was a part of the Fulshear family, one of the first Anglo white families to settle Texas, and fought in the Texas Revolution.

Veterans Memorial High School is a senior high school in Mission, Texas and a part of the Mission Consolidated Independent School District.

A school bus crash occurring on September 21, 1989, in Alton, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley region, resulted in the deaths of 21 junior and senior high school students by drowning or causes related to being asphyxiated. A bottling truck collided with the school bus, causing the bus to enter a caliche pit filled with water. The driver of the truck was acquitted of negligent homicide charges. The payoffs from lawsuits compensating for the deaths of the students caused division in the Alton community. A middle school that was built in Alton was named in honor of the deceased.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Randle High School</span> Public school in Texas, United States

Dr. Thomas E. Randle High School is a public high school in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, with a Richmond postal address. It is a part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD).

References

  1. 1 2 3 "MISSION H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
  2. "SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Hidalgo County, TX." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 2, 2018.
  3. "Mission CISD School Zones." Mission Consolidated Independent School District. Retrieved on August 2, 2018. See HTML version. Junior high boundaries are determined by the elementary school zoning, with some optional exceptions, while high school boundaries are described by text.
  4. Williams, Joel (1989-10-01). "Fatal Bus Accident Shakes Community // Residents Struggle With Tragedy". Tulsa World . Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  5. St. John, Bob (September 20, 2000). "At Mission High, A Star is Unleashed". The Dallas Morning News .