Seven Lakes High School

Seven Lakes High School

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Address
9251 South Fry Road
Katy, Texas 77494
United States
Coordinates 29°42′26″N 95°48′28″W / 29.707288°N 95.807911°W / 29.707288; -95.807911Coordinates: 29°42′26″N 95°48′28″W / 29.707288°N 95.807911°W / 29.707288; -95.807911
Information
Type Public school
Established 2005
School district Katy Independent School District
Principal Theodore Vierling
Faculty 256
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 3,235 (2015)
Campus size 125 acres (0.5 km2)
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Navy Blue and Orange
Athletics conference UIL Class 6A
Mascot Spartans
Accreditation SACS, TEA, CEEB, TACAC, TASSP
Feeder schools Beckendorff Junior High School
Seven Lakes Junior High School
Website Seven Lakes High School

Seven Lakes High School (commonly Seven Lakes, SLHS, or Spartans) is a public senior high school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States in the vicinity of Katy-Gaston Road and Fry Road intersection in Land Use Zone 74. It is located just outside the Seven Meadows community and Meadowbrook Farms Golf Course and just inside the Cinco Ranch Southwest community.[1] Many communities such as Seven Meadows, Grand Lakes, and Cinco Ranch are zoned to the school. While the school has a Katy address, it is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston, and is a high school of the Katy Independent School District (KISD).

The school was rated "Exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency for the 2008-2009 school year (the highest rating any public high school in Texas can attain).[2] In 2016, the school was ranked 703rd in the nation out of 27,000 public high schools in the US by US News;[3] The school was one of three winners of The Houston Chronicle's Chronicle Cup in 2008 for overall athletic performance.[4]

History

The school was originally planned by Katy ISD to relieve overcrowding at Cinco Ranch High School and Katy High School and to better facilitate the influx of students due to new development planned in the general Katy area. The school plan was the same general design used for two other KISD schools, Morton Ranch High School and Cinco Ranch High school, and was designed by PBK Architects. The school's first year in operation was the 2005-2006 school year and had its first graduating class of 408 students in the 2007-2008 school year.[5] The school was nominated a "National Blue Ribbon School Of 2008."[6]

Christie Whitbeck served as principal of SLHS from 2005-2011, before taking a position as Assistant Superintendent in Alvin ISD.

Background

The school is located in the Katy Independent School District, and has the distinction of being the largest high school construction project at one time in the state of Texas.[7] Seven Lakes was designed by PBK Architects, as were many other area schools.[8] It is also the second largest, as well as the most expensive, school in the United States to be built at one time. The total cost of the school came around to $77,424,704 after construction was complete.[8] The name of the school is derived from two major communities that are zoned to it, Seven Meadows and Grand Lakes, taking "Seven" from the name of the Seven Meadows community and "Lakes" from the name of the Grand Lakes community.[9] While the school is meant only for a maximum of 3,000 students, schools in Katy ISD often become overcrowded due to the rapid development in the area as was the case in 2012, when Seven Lakes reached its peak of 3,957 students.

The school maintains a rivalry of sorts with Cinco Ranch High School, another high school also located in the same school district as Seven Lakes (Katy Independent School District) and located 3 miles away.[10] Logically, much of the area now zoned to Seven Lakes was originally zoned to Cinco Ranch High School before Seven Lakes opened, and much of the area zoned to the new Tompkins High School was previously zoned to Seven Lakes.

Demographics

Economically Disadvantaged 5.86%

Campus

The school has the following facilities:[12]

Academics

AP Courses

Seven Lakes offers a myriad of advanced "AP" course options to higher-achieving students, with 24 classroom AP courses being offered during the 2013-14 School Year in a variety of subject areas.[13]

2014 College Entrance Exams

2014 STAAR/EOC Scores

Additionally, Seven Lakes High School met state standards and earned distinctions in 6 out of 6 areas surveyed by the Texas Education Agency in 2014.[13]

Athletics

State Championships

Activities

State Championships

Feeder Patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Seven Lakes (non-comprehensive):[20]

The following middle schools feed into Seven Lakes High School:

Notable Alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Seven Lakes High School - Katy, Texas - TX - School overview
  3. ↑ http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/texas/districts/katy-independent-school-district/seven-lakes-high-school-19349. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "The Woodlands, Seven Lakes headline Chronicle Cup". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Bretting, Sandra. "Zoning plan wins trustee approval for Seven Lakes / Katy district authorizes work on elementary." Houston Chronicle. Thursday December 16, 2004.
  6. ↑ "2007-2008 Seven Lakes High School Profile." Katy Independent School District. Accessed September 28, 2008.
  7. ↑ KatyISD - Communications Archived May 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. 1 2 Education Design Showcase Project
  9. ↑ "Cinco Ranch Southwest". HAIF - Houston's Leading News Forum. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  11. ↑ http://www.har.com/school/101914010/seven-lakes-high-school. Retrieved May 31, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ http://kisdwebs2.katyisd.org/katywebs/Default.aspx?tabid=41701
  13. 1 2 3 4 http://www.katyisd.org/campus/SLHS/Documents/SLHS%20Profile%2014-15.pdf
  14. 1 2 "Seven Lakes High School Profile" (PDF). Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "UIL Spring Meet - Results Archive". utexas.edu. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  16. ↑ "UIL Spring Meet - Results Archive". utexas.edu. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  17. ↑ (PDF) http://www.katyisd.org/campus/SLHS/Documents/SLHS%20Profile%2012-13.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ↑ (PDF) http://www.katyisd.org/campus/SLHS/Documents/SLHS%20Profile%2013-14.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ↑ (PDF) http://www.katyisd.org/campus/SLHS/Documents/SLHS%20Profile%2014-15.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ↑ https://apps.katyisd.org/public/katyisdcampusmap/
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