Kingwood High School

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Kingwood High School

Motto	"Learning for all...whatever it takes."
Contact Information	Phone: 281 641 6901 Fax: 281 641 7217
Established	1979
Type	Public School
Principal	Melissa Hayhurst
Location	2701 Kingwood Drive Houston (Kingwood address), Texas 77339 United States
District	Humble Independent School District
Enrollment	Approximately 3,700 students
Grades	Ninth Grade to Twelfth Grade
Publication	The Kingwood Courier (Newspaper), Hoofprints (Yearbook)
Band	The Kingwood Mighty Mustang Military Marching Band [1]
Drill Team	Kingwood Fillies [2]
Mascot	Mustang
Website	[3]

Kingwood High School is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States. The school's main campus is located at 2701 Kingwood Drive, while the 9th grade campus is located at 4015 Woodland Hills Drive. Melissa Hayhurst is the current principal of the main campus, and Larry Cooper is the principal of the 9th grade campus.

Kingwood High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Humble Independent School District. Kingwood High School has two campuses: a main 10-12 campus and a ninth grade campus. The 9th grade campus will become a separate 9-12 high school called Kingwood Park High School in 2007.

Kingwood's colors are navy blue, columbia blue and white. Its mascot is the mustang.

Kingwood High School is located in Kingwood, a master-planned community within the Houston city limits. Kingwood High School serves portions of Houston. The school has a "Kingwood" postal address even though Kingwood is no longer unincorporated.

Kingwood was the 5A recipient of the prestigious Lone Star Cup in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Kingwood also won the award in 1999, the first year the award was given. Winners of the cup are often considered to be among the best high schools in Texas in terms of UIL athletic and academic achievement.

Kingwood is a very competitive school in athletics and particularly in academics. Kingwood's Honors and Advanced Placement programs are rigorous and challenging, but students in these classes test highly on exams designed to give them college credit for their work.

1 Renovation
2 Feeder patterns
3 Mission Statement
4 Alma Mater
5 Fight Song
6 Trivia
7 External links

[edit] Renovation

Kingwood High School Renovation - Bond funds have provided the money to bring Kingwood High into compliance with Texas Education Agency current standards for classroom size. The renovations and additions will eliminate the use of portable buildings, provide a learning environment in which temperatures and humidity can be effectively controlled, and provide spaces designed for specific instructional and co-curricular activities instead of "make-shift" spaces. In summary, 108,000 square feet will be added and 371,000 square feet of existing space will be renovated. Currently, there are 12 portable buildings in which 550 students attend classes daily. When the renovations are complete, Kingwood High will have a capacity of 2,800 without the use of portable buildings.

The renovations at Kingwood High will create 63 properly sized classrooms and 17 science classroom/ labs. Four teaching theaters, eight business labs, practice areas for dance and drill teams, and a renovated auditorium that includes a new scene shop and a black box theater are included in the renovations. Completely new finishes, including carpet, ceiling tile, lighting and paint, will be provided throughout the school. Also, a new roof, lockers, electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning systems will be installed. The school will be designed so that students may be grouped into "houses," allowing counselors, assistant principals and teachers to focus on a specific group of students.

[edit] Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools [4] feed into Kingwood High School:

Bear Branch
Deerwood
Elm Grove
Foster
Greentree
Hidden Hollow
Pine Forest (feeds into both Kingwood High School and Atascocita High School)
Shadow Forest
Willow Creek
Woodland Hills

Kingwood, Creekwood, and Riverwood middle schools feed into Kingwood High School.

Starting in fall 2007, the following elementary schools will no longer feed into Kingwood High School:

Elm Grove
Foster
Woodland Hills

Kingwood Middle School will feed into Kingwood Park High School starting in August 2007.

The following elementary schools will continue to feed into Kingwood High School:

Bear Branch (will feed into both Kingwood high schools)
Deerwood
Greentree
Hidden Hollow
Pine Forest (will continue to feed into Kingwood High and Atascocita High)
Shadow Forest
Willow Creek

Creekwood and Riverwood middle schools will continue to feed into KHS.

[edit] Mission Statement

The mission of Kingwood High School is to create a collaborative learning environment that is supportive, challenging, and disciplined, resulting in life-long learners whose exemplary performance is a credit to themselves and their community.

[edit] Alma Mater

Kingwood High, we pledge to you,
Honor and respect.
For you stand that we may learn
Wonders, then reflect.
As we spread throughout the land,
Knowledge is our light.
Through life's struggles we recall
Kingwood's blue and white.

[edit] Fight Song

Fight, you mighty Mustangs,
Win the game tonight;
Show the other team who's
Behind the blue and white.
The best is what we'll be when
We're put to the test;
Let's show them, Kingwood Mustangs
GO-FIGHT-WIN
Go you mighty Mustangs,
With victory in sight,
Win you mighty Mustangs,
Let's take that game tonight.
GO-FIGHT-WIN
Our Mustang pride will lead us to victory again!
Cause we're the Mustangs!

[edit] Trivia

Kingwood High School made national headlines after four female students were convicted of armed robbery after they robbed many of Kingwood's local businesses during the summer of 1999. The girls called themselves "The Queens of Armed Robbery" and were identified by an assistant principal after recognizing the voice of one student on the security camera footage of a robbery. The girls were sentenced to 7 years, the ringleader a few months more.[5]

Kingwood High School again made headlines during the spring of 2005 when there was a controversy surrounding who would be that year's graduating class's valedictorian. Karen Scherr was denied the honor because she missed six weeks of her junior year while receiving treatment for anorexia, and Alex Gorham was named valedictorian, though he felt it was "a hollow victory." [6] Thankfully she was only given an honorary valedictorian position, because she couldn't seem to understand that rules were rules. Her mother, like many pushy women in the community, was avid about her precious daughter being up at the podium, so much so that they made it a controversy.

Justin Deabler, a cast member on MTV's The Real World: Hawaii, attended Kingwood High School.

The Kingwood Mustang Mighty Military Marching Band, or "KM4B", will be marching in the 2007 Parade of Roses . [7]

In December 2003, the Kingwood High School Madrigals, led by Keith Dixon, performed at the White House Christmas party in Washington D.C.

In April 2001, The Kingwood High School Concert Chorale, under the direction of Keith Dixon, collaborated with other national high schools to perform in Carnegie Hall in New York City, NY.