Awards

Awards & Recognitions

Named to National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA's) list of 2011 Higher Performing Schools for Texas
Named to Texas Monthly’s “Best Public Schools” list, 2006
Named to Children at Risk's Top 10 Houston-Area High Schools, 2006, 2007
Named to Newsweek’s Top 1,200 High Schools national list, 2006
25 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, 3 National Hispanic Scholars, 1 National Achievement Scholarship semi-finalist, 2006
Two first-place championship teams, American Computer Science League All-Star Contest, 2006
Culture Shapers Visual Art Contest, 2nd place finalist, 2006
Via Colori High School Art Contest, honorable mentions, 2006
National Scholastic Writing Competition - Gold Key Award, Silver Key Award, American Voices Award, 2006;
Regional Competition - 4 Gold Keys and a Trustees Award, 2006; 2 Gold Keys & 1 Silver; 2007 Regional Scholastic Art - 2 Gold Keys, 2007
First-place finishers in physics and engineering, Science and Engineering Fair of Houston, 2006
8 Texas All-State musicians in band, choir, orchestra, 2007
Gold medalists in State Science Olympiad Tournament, 2006
Fund for Teachers recipient, 2005
National Academic Decathlon championship, 1997, 2000;
Girls soccer, second in state, 2000, 2001
UIL state team tennis championship, finalist, 1995, 1996, 2000; semi-finalist, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
TCEA state Programming championship, runner-up, 2004, 2006, 2007
HP Code Wars champions 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008

UIL 6A state boys track discus champion 2018
UIL 6A state boys track shot put champion 2018
UIL 5A state music solo/ensemble champions, 2000
National Academic Decathlon state championship, second place in nationals, 1998, 1999, 2001
UIL 5A state team tennis championship, 1997, 1998, 2002
UIL 5A state boys singles tennis champion 2014
UIL 5A state girls doubles tennis champions 1992, 2008, 2011
UIL 5A state boys doubles tennis champions 1985, 2001, 2002
UIL 5A state boys swimming and diving championship, 2001, 2003
UIL 5A state girls wrestling championship, 2006
UIL 5A state girls soccer championship 2006
UIL 5A state Academic championships, 2004, 2007
UIL 5A state Academic Social Studies champions, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011
UIL 5A state Academic Spelling champions, 2011
UIL 5A state Academic Current Issues & Events individual silver medalist, 2008
UIL 5A state Academic Computer Science champions 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007
UIL 5A state Academic Science champions, 2004
TCEA state Programming champions 2005, 2008
Texas FFA State Entomology Champions 2015, 2018
Texas FFA State Floriculture Champions 2013
Texas Forensics Association Lincoln Douglas Debate - Top Speaker in State 2018