Arlington Heights High School

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Arlington Heights High School

Fort Worth, TX, USA
Information
Nickname	Yellow Jackets
Color(s)	Blue and Gold
Homepage	www.ahhsonline.net/

Arlington Heights High School is a secondary school located in Fort Worth.

The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Fort Worth Independent School District.

Arlington Heights High School serves western portions of Fort Worth including the Como and Arlington Heights neighborhoods.

Arlington Heights High School was built in 1937 and hosted 715 students that year. Originally, students from this area attended Stripling High School in the 1920s, which is now a feeder middle school.

At that time, students at Heights were referred to as 'teasippers', a nickname taken from Texas A&M--Aggies used to call Longhorns teasippers because UT students were more likely to be the doctors and lawyers, while aggies were more likely to go into ranching and the like. Heights was wealthy and white up until the late 1960s, hosting many children of notable Fort Worthians such as the Belknaps and Dickeys, as well as Governor Connally's children. African American students attended Como High School, which no longer exists. Students at Heights referred to their school as 'the hill' because it sat up higher than the surrounding area at the time. Originally, there was a gazebo about where Donnelly street is, where the kids used to sneak cigarettes.

Heights was once rich in tradition. By the 1950s, Allied Youth Club was the biggest chapter in the entire world with a membership of over 800. This club was intended to teach the facts about alcohol and making wise decisions about its consumption. Each year, Heights students would participate in the annual AY Beauty Contest where the girls would make up the boys to look like women--hair, makeup, gowns--the works. These dressed up boys would then take other boys as their dates to the dance. There are many pictures from old yearbooks documenting this tradition. There was also a Future Teachers club, a rifle club, and each year a ranch Queen and Foreman were elected.

1 About
2 Heights Through Time
3 Notable Alumni
4 School Organizations
5 Feeder patterns
- 5.1 Elementary Schools
- 5.2 Middle Schools
6 External links

[edit] About

The school mascot is the Yellow Jacket
The school colors are blue and gold
AHHS was a leading school in FWISD with 26,704 volunteer hours.

Arlington Heights Yellow Jacket

AHHS has established the only ranch management program in FWISD with over 200 students participating.
AHHS has established the only Navy JROTC program in FWISD.
AHHS is host to one of the only Peace Clubs in the region
AHHS won the 1996 UIL Class AAAA baseball championship.

The main building houses 74 classrooms, a library, band hall, auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria, workrooms and administrative offices. Outside buildings include a second gymnasium, field houses with concessions stands, and a weight room. The new wing opened in the fall of 2004 and houses six classrooms and a state of the art dance studio. The surrounding grounds are covered with tennis courts, baseball, softball, a unique multi-purpose athletic facility, soccer and football fields and an all-weather track which is open to public use. [1]