Pasadena High School (Pasadena, Texas)

Pasadena High School is a secondary school in Pasadena, Texas.

Pasadena High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Pasadena Independent School District. The school had 2260 students during the 2010-2011 school year.

The current principal is Joe Saavedra.

Pasadena High School's mascot is an eagle named "Baldy". The school colors are green and white.

The school is located along State Highway 225 (La Porte Freeway).

History

Imagine a one room "chicken-shack" standing right about where the Shaver underpass is. Now look over at the corner of Shaver and 225. Hard to imagine that both sentences describe Pasadena High School. The "chicken-shack" was the beginning of the history of Pasadena High School. This Pasadena High School accommodated 20 students and one teacher.

As the population of Pasadena increased, and the prized crop, strawberries, kept growing in season, the school year became adjusted to the growing season of strawberries. As population increased, so did the number of students enrolling in school.

In 1924, construction on the new Pasadena High School began. PHS was dedicated in 1924, while construction continued until it was completed in 1925. In 1929, a Girl's gymnasium was added as well as an auditorium. In 1931, expansion continued as a Home Economics building, which is still in use today, was added. 1935 marked the addition of a Manual Training building to PHS. This Manual Training building was used during World War II to aid in the war effort. This building was torn down in 1972, however. In 1945, a band hall was built and dedicated to Mr. Gene Stuchberry, first director of bands at Pasadena High School, as well as the beginning of construction on PHS's new cafeteria. When 1947 rolled around, a $329,000.00 Vocational Building and a $100,000.00 budgeted Boys' gymnasium was added to Pasadena High School. In 1950, the Science building was built as an addition to the PHS campus. Pasadena High School had begun taking shape.

1952 saw much expansion throughout the Pasadena High School campus. The Vocational, Science, and Boys' gym were all expanded to accommodate the growing number of students. A new auditorium was built in 1957, and in the early 60's, the Main building of PHS (at that time), was torn down so construction of a new Main building could begin. The new Main building was opened in 1963, but completed in 1965. The last major expansion of Pasadena High School, before the campus was renovated in the 90's, was the addition of a $2,500,000.00 three-story building. This building housed the current cafeteria and classrooms.

The 90's saw major reform at Pasadena High School. Property surrounding Pasadena High School was acquired by the Pasadena Independent School District and expansion of Pasadena High School continued. A new vocational building, main building, gymnasium, and vocational annex were added to Pasadena High School.

Despite having a student population that is over 90% title-1 (suffering from economic hardship), the school maintains strong academic success in its core subject areas. This is made possible through the hard work and dedication of a superb teaching staff and creative administration team under the leadership of Joe Saavedra, who, in recent years has been instrumental in the school's continued success.

Pasadena High School also maintains very successful Fine Arts and Athletic programs in addition to being one of the few high schools in the area to provide apprentice programs that enable students to enter the workforce upon graduation.

PHS Website

Feeder pattern

Elementary schools that feed into Pasadena High School include:

• Gardens
• Kruse
• L. F. Smith
• Morales
• Red Bluff
• Richey
• South Shaver
• Pomeroy
• Williams

Intermediate schools that feed into Pasadena High School include:

• Jackson
• Queens
• San Jacinto
• Southmore

School uniforms

As of 2009, all Pasadena High School students are able to wear any solid color shirts oxford shirt or polo shirt and denim, khaki, or navy trousers, skirts, and dresses [1]. All Pasadena ISD schools are required to have standardized dress [2].

Sports

Pasadena has a diverse sports programs including baseball, basketball, cross country, track, football, soccer, volleyball, golf, tennis, aquatics (swimming, diving, finswimming, open water) and softball. Football and basketball have the most storied tradition with a State Finalist in Football, a State Championship in Basketball, and State Championships in Track.

The facilities at Pasadena High School have gone through major renovations. All sub-varsity games are held on campus while some Varsity contests are held in Bob Barfield Gynasium on campus named after Coach Barfield who led the Eagles to their State Finalist run in football. The district facilities shared by the other 4 high schools are Pasadena Veteran's Memorial Stadium for football and soccer, Auxiliary Stadium, basketball and volleyball share Weldon "Stoney" Phillips Field House which is named after Coach Phillips who coached the Eagles from 1951 - 1957. Baseball is played at Maguire Field for Varsity contests and Softball and sub-varsity baseball games are played at the P.I.S.D. Sports Complex. The aquatics (swimming, diving, finswimming, open water) team trains at the City of Pasadena Strawberry Pool and Beverly Hill Pool.

Football History

District Champions 1937, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1958, 1963, 1970, 1996

Bi-District Finalists 1937, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1958, 1963, 1970, 1994, 1995, 1996

Bi-District Champions 1937, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1958, 1963

Regional Finalists 1937, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945

Regional Champions 1944

State Quarter Finalists 1958, 1963

State Quarter Champions 1958

State Semi-Finalists 1958

State Semi-Final Champions 1958

State Runner Up 1958

Organizations

Pasadena High School also has The Eagle Alliance (band), The Junior ROTC (Marine Division), Orchestra, The Eagle Escort (dance team), Choir, Theatre, photography and a slew of clubs and organizations.

In recent years the school has sent students into the Texas All-State Choir and Orchestra and continues to achieve high ratings at UIL Contest.

The 2009-2010 school year saw the production of the school's first musical theatre production in 26 years which was very well received.

External links

• PHS web site
• Eagle Football Web Page
• PHS Class of 1968 Tribute and 40 Year Reunion News
• Official PHS Class of 1968 Reunion Site
• Official PHS Class of 1968 40 Year Reunion Discussion Group