Alief Elsik High School

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Alief Elsik High School is a secondary school located in the Alief neighborhood of Houston, Texas.

Elsik is divided into two campuses: the main campus (12601 High Star in Houston, zip code 77072), and the Alief Elsik Ninth Grade Center (located at 6767 South Dairy Ashford, city of Houston, 77072), which serves ninth graders. Both campuses, which are in the Alief Independent School District, serve grades 9 through 12. The schools mascot is a Ram, and the school's basketball and football teams are well-known throughout Texas, as is the speech and debate team. The academic teams at Alief Elsik, Academic Decathlon, Star Academic Challenge, and various UIL organizations do participate in regional, state, and national competitions. Alief Hastings High School which is another high school sits adjacent to Elsik and is considered to be its sister school. The two schools enjoy a friendly rivalry that heats up each year in the final football game when they play each other in a shared football stadium. In 1986, Elsik defeated Hastings for the first time in its then 11 year existence by kicking a field goal with less than 1 minute in the game to win 16-14.

Opened in 1975, it is one of the largest high schools in the state. Its programs in biology and chemistry are considered the best in the Alief school district.

Like its sister schools Hastings and Taylor, Elsik has followed an AB Block schedule, where the 4 classes on "A" days alternate with the 4 on "B" days. A student has 8 periods (class slots) available in total, although certain classes will take two periods. Each class period is about 90 minutes in length. This will cease with the end of the 2006-2007 school year, after which these three schools will have a seven period day.

AP and Honors classes are graded on a 5.0 grading scale, while all other classes are graded on a 4.0 scale. Dual credit programs for English, Government, and Economics are also offered to seniors.

The Elsik Library program is unique in that it is divided into two physically separate areas.

1 Feeder patterns
2 Notable alumni
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Feeder patterns

All Alief ISD elementary, intermediate, and middle schools feed into Elsik as high school placement in Alief ISD is determined by a lottery: the lottery can result in either Elsik, Hastings, or Taylor. If a student was selected by lottery to attend a high school different from the high school of a relative currently attending or graduated from, the student may opt to transfer to that respective school. Students may also complete an application for the district's magnet high school, Kerr.

Neighborhoods served by AISD include Alief, most of Westchase, Bellaire West, and most of Leawood.