Type Public Principal Federico Rojas Phone +1 915-236-7400 Mascot Silver Fox | Established 1949 Grades 9-12 Founded 1949 | |
Motto Home of the Silver Foxes Color(s) Scarlet, silver and white Similar Silva Magnet High Sch, El Paso High School, Bowie High School, Burges High School, Austin High School | ||
Jefferson High School is a public high school located in South-Central El Paso, Texas, United States. It is part of the El Paso Independent School District and serves mainly the eastern half of South-Central El Paso, generally from the Rio Grande north to Interstate 10 west of Raynolds Street and the railroad tracks running just north of El Paso Drive east of Raynolds, and from Luna and San Marcial Streets east to the Ysleta Independent School District boundary in the vicinity of Ascarate Park.
Jefferson High is fed mainly by Henderson Middle, into which the elementary schools in its feeder pattern, Burleson, Clardy, Cooley and Zavala, graduate. A four-by-ten-block area north of Interstate 10 surrounding the historic Concordia Cemetery and bordered by Interstate 10, the Patriot Freeway (US 54), Tularosa Avenue, and Estrella Street is also zoned to Jefferson for the high-school grades, to Henderson for the middle-school grades (six to eight), and to Alta Vista Elementary for prekindergarten to fifth grade. The Alta Vista attendance zone north of Tularosa Avenue is zoned to Armendariz Middle and Austin High.
In March 2012 Jefferson had its first state and national championships, with junior wrestler Yvone Galindo.