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 264
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 3,464 (2014)
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 2015, the "school" was "ranked" 509th 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

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

Enrollment Trends

Feeder Patterns

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

The following middle schools feed into Seven Lakes High School:

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-h-s-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. Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  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. ↑ "Seven Lakes High School". Greatschools.org. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  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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