Alief Hastings High School

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Alief Hastings High School is a secondary school in the Alief neighborhood of Houston, Texas. Originally named Alief Junior-Senior High School, the school's present location opened in 1972.

Alief Hastings is a part of the Alief Independent School District and it serves grades 9 through 12. Ninth-graders are in the Alief Hastings Ninth Grade Center (6750 Cook Road, city of Houston, 77072) while tenth through twelfth graders are on the main campus (4410 Cook Road, city of Houston, 77072). The campuses had a combined enrollment of 4207 students as of the 2002-2003 school year. The opening of Alief Taylor High School reduced the overall class size at Alief Hastings significantly. Alief Elsik High School is considered to be the sister school of Alief Hastings.

All Alief schools next year will attend seven (7) day classes which wil be a drastic change for Alief High and Middle school students. Starting the 2006-2007 year.

The school's mascot is the Fighting Bear.

In 2005, an effort to control the amount of gang activity at Alief Hastings was undertaken as a joint operation between Alief ISD Police and the Houston Police Department after the off-campus death of a student due to gang violence.

In the 1990s, Alief Hastings received numerous recognitions for academics, including winning 1st place in University Interscholastic League District titles for seven years in a row (1988-1995). Since the early 1990s, Alief Hastings has excelled in performing arts, earning state or national recognition for Theatre Arts and Drill Team. All components of its music program, marching band, orchestra, and choir have continuously received excellence ratings or sweepstakes recognition. The journalism and foreign language, specifically French and German, programs have received national recognition. Most significantly since mid-1990s, Alief Hastings has one of the top speech and debate programs in the country, sending numerous students to compete and win at state and national tournaments, and received annual invitations to Tournament of Champions held at Harvard University.

1 Feeder patterns
2 Rival School(s)
3 Notable Alumni
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Feeder patterns

All Alief ISD elementary, intermediate, and middle schools feed into Hastings 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.