Skyline High School (Dallas)

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Skyline High School
Principal Leslie Williams
School type Public
School district Dallas Independent School District
Founded 1970
Location Dallas, Texas
Mascot Raider
School colors Columbia Blue and Scarlet Red

Skyline High School is a secondary school in Dallas, Texas. It was the first high school in the United States to offer a magnet school curriculum.

Skyline serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District.

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[edit] History

According to the Dallas Independent School District Web site, Skyline "began with the shared visions of B.J. Stamps, the first high school principal, and Gene Davenport, the first Career Development Center Principal. They were very involved in all aspects of the school's planning process. During construction of the campus, they were surveying the most ambitious project in the history of the DISD. While discussing their future plans for the school, they stopped on the second floor hallway between the B building and the Main Building. As they stood looking out of the window, they could see the familiar view of the Dallas skyline. This was when they decided that Skyline would be the perfect name for the nation's first magnet school." [1]

Classes at Skyline began in the fall semester of 1970. Until the main facility at 7777 Forney Road opened early in 1971, instruction was held at other southeast Dallas sites. From its inception, Skyline has offered both a regular high school curriculum and a multitude of magnet school programs. The magnet offerings are organized as clusters, which are collectively called the Career Development Center. Depending on circumstances, a student might have the option of pursuing a traditional curriculum, attending both magnet and traditional classes at Skyline, or attending a Skyline cluster for a portion of the day and regular classes at his or her neighborhood high school for the remainder.

Over time, numerous clusters have left Skyline and moved into facilities of their own, becoming full-fledged DISD magnet high schools. For example, the Performing Arts Cluster and the Health Careers Cluster both discontinued their affiliations with Skyline in 1976 and became, respectively, the (presently-named) Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the High School for the Health Professions (now the School of Health Professions at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center).

For many years Skyline was a three-year high school (grades 10–12). It now includes grade 9.

  • Mission: Our mission is to empower our students with the knowledge, skills, integrity, and work ethic to prepare them for life in a globally competitive market.
  • Motto: "Unity in Effort...Pride in Result"
  • Enrollment: 4,601 during the 2004-2005 school year
  • Number of teachers: 280 during the 2004-2005 school year

Trustee district: District 9

Area: Area 1 - Ivonne Durant

[edit] School Performance

Skyline High School, although being a Magnet school, has had a longstanding reputation for having an overall below-state TAKS testing average. However, since the arrival of the principal, Leslie Williams (male), Skyline High School has seen an increase in test scores. Currently, Skyline is undergoing a process to make it into an Exemplary School. [2]

[edit] Alma Mater

Skyline Alma Mater

Skyline, our Alma Mater,
Proudly we proclaim
Our respects to all your standards,
Honor to your name.
Guidance, knowledge, inspiration,
We receive from you.
Hail to thee our Alma Mater.
Hail to Skyline High.

[edit] Fight Song

Skyline Fight Song

Hit the team across the field.
Show them that we are here.
Set the earth reverberating
With a mighty cheer...Rah! Rah! Rah!
Hit them hard and see how they fall.
Never let that team get the ball.
So hail, hail, the gang's all here.
So stand up for Skyline High!

[edit] Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Skyline include Frank Guzick, Edna Rowe, Ascher Silberstein, and Urban Park.[3]

John B. Hood Middle School feeds into Skyline.

In addition, an area is zoned to both Skyline and Adams High Schools; pupils in the area may select one of the schools. Part of the area is zoned to Bayles Elementary School while the other part is zoned to S.S. Conner Elementary School. All of the area is zoned to W.H. Gaston Middle School.

[edit] Notable alumni

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Dallas Independent School District
Magnet middle and high schools Rangel Young Women's
High schools Adamson | Hillcrest | Lincoln | Madison | Molina | North Dallas | Samuell | Seagoville | South Oak Cliff | Sunset | W. T. White | Woodrow Wilson
Magnet high schools Lincoln Humanities/Communications Magnet | School of Government, Law, & Law Enforcement | School of Science & Engineering | School for the Talented & Gifted | Skyline Career Development Center | Washington HS for Performing and Visual Arts
Magnet PreK-8 schools Dealey Montessori
Magnet 4-8 schools Travis Academy/Vanguard

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.dallasisd.org/schools/realtor_new.cfm?id_con=171
  2. ^ http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/achievement/tx/1904
  3. ^ http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/schoolinfo/feeder2006/adams_skyline.htm
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