Eisenhower High School (Houston, Texas)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower High School is a public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States.

Eisenhower is a part of the Aldine Independent School District. The main campus is located at 7922 Antoine Drive, while the Eisenhower 9th Grade School is located at 3550 West Gulfbank Road.

The Inwood Forest community and the western portion of the Acres Homes community are served by Eisenhower. In addition, the unincorporated Harris County communities of Bammel Trace [1], Mount Royal Village [2], Parkland Place [3], and Willow Springs Villas [4], are zoned to Eisenhower.

Eisenhower offers a broad range of Advanced Placement courses, including chemistry, world history, calculus (AB and BC), macroeconomics, English, Spanish, and art history[5]. Eisenhower also sends at least two projects each year to the National History Day competition in Washington D.C.[6], while having a top-tiered Academic Decathlon team that has progressed to the state competition for the past three years[7].

The school is nicknamed "Big Ike" and "Ike," after Dwight D. Eisenhower's nickname.

The school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1988-89. ^[1]