Arlington High School (Arlington, Texas)

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Arlington High School is a secondary school serving grades 9-12 located in Arlington, Texas and is part of the Arlington Independent School District. The current principal is James Adams. The mascot of the school is the Colt, and the school colors are green and white. Students from Junior High at Bailey, Gunn and portions of Carter go to High School at Arlington. Arlington High School has been accepted to be an International Baccalaureate School.

Arlington High School serves portions of Arlington and the towns of Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego.

The original AHS campus now houses the College of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Contents 1 Athletics 2 Fine Arts 3 Feeder Patterns 4 External links

[edit] Athletics

Arlington High is the only high school in Arlington to ever win a state title in football (1951). The head coach is Scott Peach, whose father is head coach of Lamar High School. Next to Lamar, it can be said that Arlington High has had the most successful football program in the school district in recent years. Arlington High's volleyball program usually goes to playoffs. AHS also has exceptional softball, cheerleading, baseball, cross country, golf, swimming and soccer programs. Wrestling consistently sends its participants to compete at State level competition. Interscholastically, tennis and basketball are not as developed.

Fight Song: Sons of the white and green, fight for your alma mater, fight for the fame of the Arlington name, triumph forge ahead rah rah rah. Hearts that are brave and true, loyal and eager too, shoulder to shoulder fight and win...sons of the White and green.

Alma Mater: Arlington High school of our praise we'll ere be true to you, all of our days. We'll always cheer the green and white and owe our fortunes to you, Arlington High. HAIL TO ARLINGTON HIGH!!!!

[edit] Fine Arts

Arlington High School has an involved and adept fine arts programs. The Theatre Arts Department won the State Championship in UIL One-Act Play in 2005. Arlington High's play, AN EXPERIMENT WITH AN AIR PUMP, was chosen 1st place among over 250 other high schools in their conference. The orchestra program has won Sweepstakes at UIL (University Interscholastic League). The orchestra program has been receiving Sweepstakes since 1979. The band program has also consistently taken the Sweepstakes at UIL since a time interval in the 1980's and early 90's when Martin High School dominated the general area. In the 2005-2006 academic year, the band was the only in the city to take sweepstakes at UIL and in 2006 the band advanced to area competition. The Arlington High School Choir, Colt Chorale has also enjoyed much success within recent years, attending the prestigous Texas Music Educators Association Convention in 2005 and winning numerous Sweepstakes in UIL. On March 7, 2007 Colt Chorale will be singing at the American Chorale Directors Association Convention in Miami, Florida, which is the highest national honor that a choir can receive. It is likely that over 300 students will enroll in AHS' orchestra in the 2006-2007 school year. The choir has over 300 students; the band almost has 200: the theatre over 300.

[edit] Feeder Patterns

Duff, Hill, Swift, South Davis, and a portion of Dunn elementaries feed into Bailey. Key and Short are two of three elementaries from Gunn that flow into AHS. Bailey sends all of its students into AHS. Gunn sends the majority of its students to AHS and the rest go to Bowie. Carter junior high sends a small portion of its population to AHS.

[edit] External links

• Arlington High School Homepage
• Arlington Independent School District Homepage

	v • d • e Arlington Independent School District
High schools	Arlington | Bowie | Sam Houston | Lamar | Martin | Seguin
Junior high schools	Bailey | Barnett | Boles | Carter | Ferguson | Gunn | Hutcheson | Nichols | Ousley | Shackelford | Workman | Young
Elementary schools	Butler | Starrett