Alief Hastings High School
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| 4410 Cook Road Harris County, Houston Texas (main campus); 6750 Cook Road Harris County, Houston Texas (ninth grade center). |
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| Type | Public School |
| Founded | 1972 |
| School district | Alief ISD |
| Grades | 9(ninth grade center), 10-12(main campus). |
| Number of students | approximately 4,150 |
| Color(s) | Gold |
| Mascot | Bears |
| Rival schools | Alief Taylor High School, Alief Elsik High School. |
| Website | http://hastings.aliefisd.net |
Alief Hastings High School is a secondary school in the Alief neighborhood of Houston, Texas, United States. Originally named Alief Junior-Senior High School, the school's present location opened in 1972.
Alief Hastings is a part of the Alief Independent School District and it serves grades 9 through 12. Ninth-graders are in the Alief Hastings Ninth Grade Center (6750 Cook Road, City of Houston, 77072) while tenth through twelfth graders are on the main campus (4410 Cook Road, City of Houston, 77072). The campuses had a combined enrollment of 4207 students as of the 2002-2003 school year. The opening of Alief Taylor High School reduced the overall class size at Alief Hastings significantly. Alief Hastings is considered to be the sister school of Alief Elsik High School.
The school's mascot is the "Fighting Bears."
In 2011 Hastings was rated "Academically Acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
n|date=October 2011}} Peggy Miller, a teacher, said that when she started being the school's yearbook advisor at Hastings, 18 years prior to 2008, the number of copies of yearbooks sold was 80% of the total number of students. Around 2008, the copies of yearbooks sold was 10-15% that of the total number of students. In 2008 Miller said "They all want them, but it's like, who's got $60? They would rather go buy their tennis shoes or buy a grill for their mouth or something. A book is not as significant today to a child."[1] In 2008 Miller introduced color pages in an effort to entice students to buy more yearbooks.[1]
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[edit] Campus students
All Alief ISD elementary, intermediate, and middle schools feed into Hastings as high school placement in Alief ISD is determined by a computerized lottery: the lottery can result in either Elsik, Hastings, or Taylor.[2] If a student was selected by lottery to attend a high school different from the high school of a relative currently attending or graduated from, the student may opt to transfer to that respective school.[citation needed]
Students may also complete an application for the district's magnet high school, Kerr.
The campus demographic is 48.8% Hispanic, 36.1% Black, 11.7% Asian and 3.3% White in the 2009-2010 school year
Neighborhoods served by AISD include Alief, most of the New Chinatown, most of Westchase, Bellaire West, and most of Leawood.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Ronnie Amadi - Current CFL football player for the Calgary Stampeders.
- Donnie Avery - Current NFL football player for the St. Louis Rams.
- Pat Combs - MLB Pitcher
- Duy-Loan Le - Texas Instrument Senior Fellow
- Toof - musician
- Tembi Locke - actor, Sliders, Windfall
- Sonal Shah - economist, part of Obama-Biden Transition Project
- Tila Tequila - Playboy's Model, Actress and Singer
- Monique Truong - novelist, The Book of Salt
- Rodrique Wright - Current NFL football player for the New York Jets.
- Dean Hill - Former Professional Hockey Referee Central Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League
- Richard Yoo - Entrepreneur, Former CEO and Founder of Rackspace, Former CEO and Founder of ServerBeach
- Danny Ocean - Music Video Director and Founder of Evesborough Films
[edit] References
- ^ a b Viren, Sarah. "Yearbooks vanish from Houston schools in Facebook era." Houston Chronicle. Tuesday May 13, 2008. Retrieved on October 25, 2011.
- ^ "2010-2011 Alief ISD Registration Times, Dates, & Requirements." Alief Independent School District. Retrieved on October 16, 2011. "Students receive their assignments to Elsik, Hastings, or Taylor High School by means of a computerized random-draw system. Following the draw assignment, those who are interested in attending Kerr High School may apply for admission"
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