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Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas)

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School type
  
Public high school

Principal
  
Mary Ellen Eidson

Enrollment
  
2405 (Spring 2012)

Phone
  
+1 281-634-2000

Founded
  
1995

Established
  
1995

Grades
  
9-12

Color(s)
  
Black & Red

Number of students
  
2,405

Address
  
3434 Pheasant Creek Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77498, USA

District
  
Fort Bend Independent School District

Stephen F. Austin High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas and is named after Stephen F. Austin, who helped lead American settlement of Texas, and who is widely regarded as "The Father of Texas." The school happens to be only miles from Austin's original colony in present-day Fort Bend County.

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Some areas of Sugar Land, Windsor Estates, and the eastern portion of the community of New Territory are zoned to Austin. On previous occasions employee housing units of the Jester State Prison Farm (including Jester I Unit, Carol Vance Unit, Jester III Unit) were zoned to Austin.

History

When Travis High School opened, some of Austin's territory was given to Travis, and Austin took some territory from Kempner High School. In the territories, grades 9 and 10 were immediately zoned to the new high school, and grades 11 to 12 continued to go to the previous high schools with a phaseout of one grade per year.

In 2006 the Smithville area of the Central Unit was rezoned from Kempner to Austin, with grades 9-10 immediately zoned to Austin, and grades 11-12 zoned to Kempner, with a phasing in by grade. Smithville had since been rezoned back to Kempner. The main portion of the Central Unit remained zoned to Austin until the unit's 2011 closure.

Feeder patterns

Feeder elementary schools to Austin [2] include [3]:

  • Oyster Creek
  • Lakeview (partial)
  • Walker Station
  • Feeder middle schools [4] include:

  • Macario Garcia Middle School (partial)
  • Sartartia Middle School (partial)
  • Clubs and extracurricular activities

  • Academic Decathlon
  • Academic Challenge
  • Academic Octathlon
  • Asian Culture Club
  • Band [5]
  • Book Club
  • Broadcasting
  • Model United Nations (Houston Area Model United Nations)
  • National FFA Organization
  • Science Club
  • Dawg Pause 16
  • Psychology Club
  • English Honor Society
  • National Honor Society
  • National Art Honor Society
  • Spanish National Honor Society
  • French National Honor Society
  • International Thespian Society (Troupe 5448)
  • Mu Alpha Theta
  • Muslim Students Association
  • HOSA
  • NJROTC
  • DECA [6]
  • Debate
  • YES
  • Angels Dance Team
  • Orchestra [7]
  • Student Council
  • Spanish Club
  • PALs
  • GUYs
  • Flo/Sail
  • SHARPER
  • Science Olympiad
  • Notable alumni

  • Katie Armiger, country musician
  • Devard Darling, football player for the Kansas City Chiefs.
  • Devaughn Darling, twin brother of Devard Darling and former Florida State Seminoles.
  • Jerry Hughes, football player for Texas Christian University and the Indianapolis Colts
  • Simone Manuel, swimmer for Stanford University and American record holder in the 100-yard freestyle, 2016 Olympics gold medal recipient
  • Adam Senn, model, actor
  • Jessica Zhu, classical concert pianist
  • References

    Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas) Wikipedia