Atascocita High School Explained

Atascocita High School
Streetaddress:13300 Will Clayton Parkway
City:Humble
State:Texas
District:Humble Independent School District
County:Harris County
Zipcode:77346
Country:USA
Coordinates:29.9796°N -95.1713°W
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Superintendent:Elizabeth Fagen
Principal:Will Falker
Faculty:221.26 FTE (2022-23)
Ratio:17.31 (2022-23)
Sat:1459
Act:21.4
Schooltype:Public School
Grades:9–12
Campus:Rural: Fringe
Slogan:"All in"
Motto:"Learning for life through rigor, relevance, and relationships."
Rivals:Summer Creek High School Kingwood High School
Mascot:Eagle
Nickname:The A
School Colors: Red, white, and blue
Newspaper:The Talon
Opened:2006
Enrollment:3,829 (2022-23)
Feeder Schools:Atascocita Middle School, Timberwood Middle School, West Lake Middle School

Atascocita High School is a secondary school located in Atascocita CDP, a community housed in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. AHS is a part of Humble Independent School District and serves the eastern part of the district and small portions of the city of Houston.

AHS opened in August 2006,[1] becoming the district's third traditional high school, and the first opened since 1979. Since its opening, it has been the district's largest high school in terms of enrollment. Its school colors are red, white, and blue, and its mascot is the eagle.

History

From its opening, AHS dealt with its own overcrowding problem. During its second year of operation, the campus installed temporary trailer classrooms in one of the parking lots. The following year, a new wing on the east side of the campus was built, the cafeteria was expanded, and the temporary buildings were removed. Finally, in 2009, the district opened Summer Creek High School to serve the large Fall Creek and Summerwood subdivisions. Recently, AHS has again begun to experience an overcrowding issue. During the 2015–2016 school year, it built temporary trailer classrooms again in the parking lot of one of the houses to make room for the influx of students. During the 2021-2022 school year, the school constructed an aptly-named "New Wing" to the west side of the school, providing additional classroom and flex space for additional students. The 2022-2023 school year brought additional temporary trailer classrooms near the Gold LGI.

House system

The campus was originally designed around three communities named after the school's colors: Red, White, and Blue. Each community was divided into two houses: Red 1 and 2, White 1 and 2, Blue 1 and 2. After the school's overcrowding issues, a fourth community, the Gold Community, was added onto the east side of campus. Prior to the 2022-2023 school year, freshmen attended classes in the Gold Community, while the upperclassmen were equally dispersed across the other three communities. As of 2022 in a decision made to prevent frequent disturbances in the Gold community, the freshmen who previously attended classes solely in Gold 1 and 2 were dispersed among the rest of the school.

The idea behind the house system is to have students attend their classes within their houses, providing a smaller environment for students in a large high school. Each house is served by a counselor and an assistant principal. Each house is centered on a "flex area" and shares an LGI (large group instruction), a collegiate-style lecture hall, with its adjacent house.

With the start of the 2018 school year, another part of gold was announced as Gold 3 due to overcrowding.

After AHS became the first high school in the district to use the house system on such a large scale, Humble ISD renovated its two other high schools (Humble and Kingwood) with the house system, and later opened Kingwood Park and Summer Creek high schools with the house system design.

Academics

For the 2018–2019 school year, the school received a B grade from the Texas Education Agency, with an overall score of 85 out of 100. The school received a B grade in two domains, Student Achievement (score of 87) and Closing the Gaps (score of 81), and a C grade in School Progress (score of 78). The school did not receive any of the seven possible distinction designations.[2]

School activities

Atascocita High School has the following activities:

School sports

AHS sports include:

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools[5] feed into Atascocita High School:

The following middle schools feed into Atascocita High School:

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Atascocita HS / Overview. 2021-11-17. www.humbleisd.net. en.
  2. https://txschools.gov/schools/101913008/overview Overview: ATASCOCITA H S
  3. Web site: Atascocita High School welcomes Junior ROTC program.
  4. Web site: Atascocita's Marine Corps Junior ROTC – Texan Live – HS Sports Media, LLC.
  5. "Attendance Areas in Humble ISD," Humble Independent School District
  6. http://humbleisd.net/ase Atascocita Springs
  7. http://humbleisd.net/ese Eagle Springs
  8. http://humbleisd.net/mbe Maplebrook
  9. http://humbleisd.net/ofe Oak Forest
  10. http://humbleisd.net/oe Oaks
  11. http://humbleisd.net/pfe Pine Forest
  12. http://humbleisd.net/te Timbers
  13. http://humbleisd.net/wpe Whispering Pines
  14. http://humbleisd.net/ams Atascocita
  15. http://humbleisd.net/tms Timberwood
  16. http://humbleisd.net/wlms West Lake
  17. Web site: Samuel Cosmi's journey from Houston to Texas fulfills a dream. Austin American-Statesman. May 26, 2017. April 27, 2020.
  18. Web site: Houston Dynamo Signs Alex Dixon in 2011 . 2014-06-09 . 2011-01-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110122080147/http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2011/01/dynamo-sign-two-academy-players . dead .
  19. http://www.armadafc.com/news/2015/12/16/armada-fc-signs-2015-usl-champion-forward-alex-dixon Jacksonville Armada FC Signs Alex Dixon in December 2015
  20. Web site: Seeing is believing: Atascocita's Dziedzic a true ace. Houston Chronicle. 30 April 2007. January 8, 2017.
  21. Web site: Carsen Edwards Purdue Profile. May 22, 2020. Purdue Sports.
  22. Web site: Dodgers draft high school OF Kendall George with No. 36 pick . MLB.com . en.
  23. Web site: Black Nebraska baseball player pushes for more representation in the sport. Drake. Keeler. March 21, 2021. The Daily Nebraskan.
  24. Web site: Wilson . Aaron . Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers sign Atascocita’s Taylor, Kingwood’s Olonilua . . March 11, 2022 . April 28, 2020.