Duncanville High School

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Duncanville High School is a secondary school located in Duncanville, Texas. The school is a part of the Duncanville Independent School District.

The school includes grades 9 through 12. The high school campus is the second-largest in the nation in terms of physical size, and enrolls approximately 3,750 students annually (five times the state average). As of 2006, the school principal is Mike Chrietzberg. The school serves most of the city of Duncanville, the Duncanville ISD portion of DeSoto, and the Duncanville ISD portion of Dallas.

1 Awards and honors
- 1.1 Duncanville High School Band
2 School dress code
3 Notable alumni
4 References
- 4.1 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Awards and honors

The school mascot is the Panther. With the exception of softball, the school has won state titles in every major team sport, including Football (1998), Boys Basketball (1991, 1999, 2007), Girls Basketball (1976, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1997, 2003), Baseball (1975, 1976, 1990), Volleyball (1995), Boys Track (1999), Boys Soccer (1985), Girls Soccer (1986, 1989) and Marching Band (1986, 1990, 2002).

Its most notable success has been in girls' basketball, where it has won six state titles, including three consecutive from 1988–1990 while winning 134 consecutive games (a state record). In 2007, the boys' basketball team won the state title with and undefeated season after a 14-point win over Humble Kingwood.

The school is also known for its journalism program, which publishes the Panther Tale yearbook, Panther Prints newspaper, and the district's public relations publication, Class Magazine. The yearbook and newspaper have won numerous awards, including a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award ^[1] (known as "The Poor Man's Pulitzer") and Gold and Silver Crown awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. For the first time in 2003, Duncanville received a Gold Crown for its newspaper and its yearbook, one of only two high schools in the nation to capture both honors that year.^[2]

In May 2005, the school's athletic program was ranked #24 in the nation by Sports Illustrated out of over 38,000 other high schools surveyed in the United States.

[edit] Duncanville High School Band

Duncanville High School's band program is widely known as one of the best high school band programs in the United States. They have gone to the state marching finals every year for the past 20 years, and have won a state marching title every decade since the 1980s. Duncanville's Wind Ensemble was also featured at the 2005 Midwest Conference in Chicago, Illinois, where a new transcription of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem debuted. Duncanville is also the largest marching band to be crowned State Champions.

The Duncanville Independent School District is proud to offer one of the most progressive band programs in the United States. The Duncanville High School Marching Band was awarded the "Sudler Shield of Honor" in 1997 as one of the outstanding marching bands in the U.S. The program has also been honored by the "John Philip Sousa Foundation" with the coveted "Sudler Flag of Honor" recognizing Duncanville as a Nationally Exemplary Band Program. Duncanville is one of only a handful of programs worldwide to hold both Sudler Awards for high school band programs.

The Duncanville High School Wind Ensemble has been the Featured Performing Group at the Music Educators National Conference, the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Association in Chicago, and the All-Japan Band Directors Conference in Nemu-no-Sato in 1998. The Wind Ensemble has never earned less than a "Superior" rating in either UIL or invitational concert competition.

The Wind Ensemble has been the Region XX "Honor Band" every year since 1980 and has placed in the State Finals of Honor Band competition seven times culminating in their selection as the 1998 AND 2004 TMEA AAAAA Honor Band. Reed and Byrd Middle Schools have placed in the State Finals of Honor Band Competitions a total of 13 times. Reed Middle School was the 2002 CCC TMEA Honor Band and Byrd was the 1982 CCC Honor Band AND 2004 CCC Honor Band. Duncanville is one of a very few school districts in Texas of any size in which all competing organizations have been selected as Honor Band. The Duncanville High School Bands paced the state in gold medals at the Interscholastic League State Competition for 18 years earning the coveted UIL State Sweepstakes Award for Class 5A. The award was discontinued in 1999. Duncanville High School is Texas' only Class 5A Band to earn all three State Championships. The Duncanville High School Marching Band has been the UIL State Champion in 1986, 1990, and 2002 and is the only 5A band in Texas to advance to the State Finals every year since 1988.

[edit] School dress code

As of 2005, Duncanville High School students are required to wear school uniforms; all Duncanville ISD schools adopted school uniforms in fall 2005.

Shirts, turtlenecks, sweaters, and blouses may be solid black, navy, white, or grey. Shirts must be polo shirts, oxford shirts, or turtlenecks. Trousers, skirts, jumpers, and dresses may be navy, black, grey, or tan khaki.