Tuloso-Midway High School

Tuloso-Midway High School
Address
2653 McKenzie Corpus Christi , Texas 78460 United States
Information
School type	Public high school
School district	Tuloso-Midway Independent School District
Principal	Ann Bartosh
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1179 (2014)
Color(s)	Maroon & Gold
Athletics conference	UIL Class AAAAA
Mascot	Warriors/Cherokees
Website	Tuloso-Midway High School website

Tuloso-Midway High School is a public school in Corpus Christi, Texas. It is part of the Tuloso-Midway Independent School District.

Student demographics

The overall population of the Tuloso-Midway region in Corpus Christi, Texas was about 12,400 in 2009. About 57% of the population was Latino/Hispanic and 42% was white. The school's total attendance rate currently is 1,150, with 70.61% being Hispanic and 26.52% being Caucasian.

During the 1990s, Tuloso-Midway High School opened its attendance boundaries to all students in the region, with application acceptance contingent on an applicant's educational performance and behavioral record at his or her previous school. Each year, more than 900 out-of-district students join TMISD using the application process. The high school continues to benefit from this policy, as many successful students have transferred into the high school from around the region since the program's inception.

As of the 2005-06 school year, Tuloso-Midway High's student body totalled 978 (45.7% White, 51.9% Hispanic, 1.8% African American, 0.3% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 0.2% Native American) with 26.3% of the students considered economically disadvantaged.

With rapid population growth in the area from 2006 to 2013, the enrollment has been above 1,000 consistently with a peak of 1,179 students in the 2013-14 school year. Tuloso-Midway High is expected to hit enrollment records over the next several years. The demographics of the high school continue to be about 55% Hispanic and 40% white, with the remaining 5% split among African American, Asian, and other nationalities.

In the late 1960s, it opened a new campus on La Branch Parkway, a large indoor/outdoor complex with unique architecture featuring a domed auditorium, a crescent shaped roof on its gymnasium, and a large interior band hall. The campus had a central courtyard and was located adjacent to the West Guth Park. The school was well-suited to its student body with very modern facilities, until population growth in the 1980s forced the district to call for a bond election to upgrade the facilities.

That election gave rise to the new Tuloso-Midway Rand Morgan High School in 1985. Named after the owner of the donated land, Tuloso-Midway High School re-emerged on Haven Dr. off of McKenzie Rd. with a large indoor complex built to accommodate over 2000 students, complete with an indoor swimming pool, a new football stadium, baseball field, tennis center, and athletic field house. The school retained the Rand Morgan portion of the name for several years until the time frame for that stipulation elapsed.

In the 2000s, in an effort to keep the high school at the forefront of facilities in South Texas, two different bond elections were passed which included additional improvements. The first called for a new two story science wing to be built on the south end of the existing building. The second bond election in 2008 took the improvements a step further and changed the look of the campus completely. The Dr. Sue Nelson Performing Arts Complex was built at the entrance to the school, with the goal of enhancing the school's performing arts program. New and state-of-the-art baseball and softball fields were also added to the complex, as was a domed facility for indoor events.

History

Tuloso-Midway Independent School District traces its roots to 1887, when a schoolhouse ran by "Murdock", the school's first teacher, started to conduct classes on an acre of donated land in the Tuloso area. 27 years later, in 1914, the first Midway school was established in an adjacent community. In 1938, the Tuloso and Midway communities planned the formation of the Tuluso-Midway Independent School District. By 1947, the district had come into being.

Two years later, in 1949, the school district had it's first graduating class consisting of 5 students. Tuluso-Midway Independent School District continued to expand in May of 1969, absorbing the Clarkwood Independent School District and the Violet Common School District. The newly-formed district briefly adopted the name of the "The Tuloso-Midway Consolidated Independent School District." A year later the district changed the name back to the origianl title.

2009 accountability rating

Based on the accountability ratings released by the Texas Education Agency in 2009, Tuloso-Midway High is currently rated "Recognized".

Athletics

Boys' teams are referred to as the Warriors and girls' teams are referred to as the Cherokees. The Tuloso-Midway teams compete in cross-country, volleyball, football, basketball, power-lifting, swimming, soccer, golf, tennis, track, softball, and baseball.

State titles

• Girl's Basketball
  • 1970 (3A)
• Boy's Cross Country
  • 2001 (4A)

Arts

The Tuloso Midway Fine Arts program includes band, choir, dance, and one act plays.

The Warrior Band performs at:

• 1980 Cotton Bowl Classic — Featured pregame and halftime performers.
• 1982 World's Fair — Performance in Knoxville Tennessee.
• 1982 State Marching Contest in Austin, Texas.

The Warriorettes achieved Sweepstakes trophies (first divisions on all routines entered) at various dance team competitions, and were awarded Best in Class and Choreography recognition plaques several times.

External links

• Tuloso-Midway ISD