| Seven Lakes High School | |
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| Location | |
| 9251 South Fry Road Fort Bend County, Texas United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public school |
| Motto | Be the obvious choice! |
| Established | 2005 |
| School district | Katy Independent School District |
| Principal | Ted Vierling |
| Faculty | 260 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 3,685 (2011) |
| Schedule type | Traditional |
| Campus size | 125 acres (0.5 km2) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Navy and Orange |
| Mascot | Spartans |
| Accreditation | SACS, TEA, CEEB, TACAC, TASSP |
| Website | Seven Lakes High School |
Seven Lakes High School is a public senior high school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States in the vicinity of Katy-Gaston Road and Fry Road intersection in Land Use Zone 74. It is located just outside of the Seven Meadows community and Meadowbrook Farms Golf Course and just inside the Cinco Ranch Southwest community.[1] Many affluent communities such as Seven Meadows, Grand Lakes, and Cinco Ranch are zoned to the school. The school has a Katy address and is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston, and is a high school of the Katy Independent School District.
The school was rated "Exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency for the 2008-2009 school year (the highest rating any public high school in Texas can attain).[2] In 2009, the school was ranked 413th in the nation out of 27,000 public high schools in the US by NewsWeek; Cinco Ranch High School was ranked 458th (the rating is based on the number of AP tests taken and passed by students).[3] The school won the Chronicle Cup in 2008 for having a superb athletic program.[4]
The Seven Lakes High School profile can be found here
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The school was originally planned by Katy ISD to relieve overcrowding at Cinco Ranch High School and Katy High School and to better facilitate the influx of students due to new development planned in the general Katy area. The school plan was the same general design used for two other KISD schools, Morton Ranch High School and Cinco Ranch High school, and was designed by PBK Architects. The school's first year in operation was the 2005-2006 school year.[5] The school had its first graduating class of 408 students in the 2007-2008 school year. The school was nominated "National Blue Ribbon School Of 2008."[6]
Christie Whitbeck served as principal of SLHS from 2005-2011, before taking a position as Assistant Superintendent in Alvin ISD.
The school is located in the Katy Independent School District, and has the distinction of being the largest high school construction project at one time in the state of Texas.[7] Seven Lakes was designed by PBK Architects, as were many other area schools.[8] It is also the second largest, as well as the most expensive, school in the United States to be built at one time. The total cost of the school came around to $77,424,704 after construction was complete.[8] The name of the school is derived from two major communities that are zoned to it, Seven Meadows and Grand Lakes, taking "Seven" from the name of the Seven Meadows community and "Lakes" from the name of the Grand Lakes community.[9] The school is meant for a maximum of 3,000 students, but schools in Katy ISD often become overcrowded due to the rapid development in the area.
The school maintains a rivalry of sorts with Cinco Ranch High School, another high school also located in the same school district as Seven Lakes (Katy Independent School District) and located a mere 3 miles away.[10] Logically, much of the area now zoned to Seven Lakes was originally zoned to Cinco Ranch High School before Seven Lakes opened. The "rivalry" consists of mainly competition between one another in athletics, rankings of the school, and standardized test scores.
The school performed about average with Texas high schools' TAKS scores and also got the highest TAKS scores of all the high schools in Katy ISD.
TAKS 2009-2010 [11]:
Seven Lakes High School received an EXEMPLARY rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2009-2010.
Seven Lakes High School Basketball 2009-2010 HONORS AND AWARDS
Trey Pinkney: 17-5A District MVP Runner-Up, 17-5A First Team All-District and TABC All-Region Princeton Onwas: 17-5A Defensive Player of the Year and 17-5A First Team All-District Jaylon Jones: 17-5A Offensive Player of the Year and 17-5A First Team All-District Cameron Patton: 17-5A First Team All-District Erick Roberson: 17-5A Second Team All-District Peter Erni: 17-5A Honorable Mention Coach Dan Miller: District 17-5A Coach of the Year
2008-2009 HONORS AND AWARDS Varsity: Earned most basketball wins in history for a Katy ISD High School (29) Varsity: Reached #5 ranking in the city of Houston by the Houston Chronicle Varsity: Undefeated district play in school's first year of 5A competition Varsity: High School Sports Live "Team of the Week" for February 21, 2009 Anthony Kendrick: 17-5A DISTRICT MVP and PLAYER OF THE YEAR Danny Coleman: 17-5A All-District First Team Anthony Kendrick: 17-5A All-District First Team Michael Newberry: 17-5A All-District First Team, 17-5A District DEFENSIVE MVP, McDonald's Invitational All-Tournament Team, McDonald's Invitational Team MVP Trey Pinkney: 17-5A All-District First Team Peter Erni: 17-5A All-District Second Team Brendan Flower: 17-5A All-District Honorable Mention Jaylon Jones: 17-5A All-District Honorable Mention Spartan Crazies: Channel 55 Slammy winner for best basketball fans in Houston Spartan Crazies: MaxPreps nomination for best school spirit in the U.S.A. Coach Dan Miller: District 17-5A Coach of the Year
2007-2008 HONORS AND AWARDS Jimmy Abraham: 24-4A All-District First Team Anthony Kendrick: 24-4A All-District First Team Brandon Provost: 24-4A All-District First Team, All-District Academic Team, T.A.B.C. All-Region, H.A.C.A. All-Star Michael Bassila: 24-4A All-District Second Team, All-District Academic Team Danny Coleman: Honorable Mention All-District, All-District Academic Team Jordan Cromeans: Honorable Mention All-District Dave Noren: All-District Academic Team Brendan Flower: All-District Academic Team Michael Newberry: All-District Academic Team Robert Erni: All-District Academic Team Taylor Ward: All-District Academic Team
2006-2007 HONORS AND AWARDS Jimmy Abraham: 24-4A All-District First Team Anthony Kendrick: 24-4A All-District First Team Michael Bassila: 24-4A All-District Second Team, All-District Academic Team Michael Newberry: 24-4A All-District Honorable Mention, 24-4A Defensive Player of the Year Runner-Up, All-District Academic Team Dave Noren: All-District Academic Team Robert Erni: All-District Academic Team Taylor Ward: All-District Academic Team Zach Keal: All-District Academic Team Steven Seagroves: All-District Academic Team
For the 2010-11 school year:
The school has the following facilities [12]:
Partial List of Seven Lakes High School Awards and Honors for 2005-2010:
• American Computer Science League Intermediate 5 Division Champions; second place at All-Star Competition, 2006
• United States of America Mathematics Olympiad Exam qualifier, 2006
• Chorale Women selected as TMEA honor choir, 2008
• All-State positions in band, choir and orchestra
• Spartan Band advances to UIL State Marching Contest, 2007
• Teacher recipient of British Petroleum's 2006 A+ for Energy grant
• Two teams, computer science and social studies, qualified for the 2006 Academic University Interscholastic League State Competition
• Gold Key Award, Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, 2006
• Regional Semi-Finalists in Men's Soccer, 2007
• Men's Soccer defeats #1 Friendswood 1-0, 2007
• Regional Finalists in Women's Soccer, 2007
• Girl's and Boy's Cross Country teams advanced to state 2005-06, 2006–07, 2007–08
• Boy's Cross Country team wins State 4A Title, 2007
• Academic Decathlon Regional Runners Up, 2006, 2007
• Academic Decathlon State 6th Place, 2007
• UIL Academic District Champions 2007
• UIL Academic Region Runner Ups 2007
• UIL Academic (Social Studies) State Champions, 2007
• UIL Academic (Mathematics) State Runner-Ups, 2007
• UIL Academic (Number Sense) State 4th Place, 2007
• TMEA Honor Orchestra Competition 6th Place, 2007
• The Varsity Boys Cross Country Team won 4A State, 2007
• FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Chapter President elected as National Vice President, Mountain Plains Region for 2007–2008
• 7 on 7 Football qualified for the state tournament. And also finished 2nd in the Katy Taylor Tournament.
• Chorale Women selected as a 2009 TMEA Performance Choir, 2008
• Academic Decathlon Regional Champions, 2008
• Academic Decathlon State Champions, 2008
• Academic Decathlon 3rd in State, 2009
• Wrestling advances two wrestlers to state, 2008
• UIL Academic (Social Studies) State Champions, 2008
• UIL Academic (Mathematics) State Champions, 2008
• UIL Academic (Number Sense) State Champions, 2008
• UIL Academic (Computer Science) State Champions, 2008
• UIL Academic (Current Events) State Runner-Ups, 2008
• FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) member wins 1st at Nationals, 2008
• FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) member elected State President, 2008–2009
• Boy's Cross Country 5A State Runner-Ups, 2008
• Wrestling advances two wrestlers to state, 2009
• SLHS Boys' Soccer JV Blue and Orange Teams place 1st in District, 2009
• Academic Decathlon places 3rd in State, 2009
• Studio Seven Theater Company awarded with 4 Tommy Tune Awards for their performance of "Once Upon A Mattress." The awards are: Best Orchestra, Best Chorus/Ensemble, Best Musical Direction, and Best Crew. (2009)
• Academic Octathlon places 1st in Region, 2009
• UIL Academic Team (Social Studies) places 1st in region and breaks highest score record, 2009
• UIL Academic (Current Issues) team places 2nd individual in state, 2009
• UIL Academic (Ready Writing) places 2nd in state, 2009
• UIL Academic (Social Studies) ties for 2nd in state, 2009
• UIL Academic (Spelling) Jonathan Xu ties for 1st in state individual with a perfect score, 2009
• UIL Academic (Spelling) team places 2nd in state, 2009
• JV Quizbowl team places 1st in state, 2009
• FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) member wins 1st at Nationals, 2009
• FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) member elected State President, 2009–2010
• FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Treasurer elected as National Vice President, Mountain Plains Region, 2009–2010
• Academic Octathlon places 1st in Region, 2010
• Academic Decathlon State Champions, 2010
• Academic Decathlon Individial National Champion in Honors Division, 2010
• Academic Decathlon Third Place at Nationals, 2010
• Academic Octathlon places 2nd in Region, 2011
• Academic Decathlon places 2nd place in State, 2011
Seven Lakes High School's maximum capacity is 3,000 students.
• 2005-2006 School Year = 850 Students
• 2006-2007 School Year = 1,562 Students
• 2007-2008 School Year = 2,339 Students (408 graduating seniors)
• 2008-2009 School Year = 2,787 Students (570 graduating seniors)
• 2009-2010 School Year = 3,186 Students (657 graduating seniors)
• 2010-2011 School Year = 3,435 Students (746 graduating seniors)
• 2011-2012 School Year = 3,685 Students (839 graduating seniors)
A new high school will be completed in 2013 to provide relief to SLHS. A bond election was successfully passed to provide for its funding in 2010.[13]
The following elementary schools feed into Seven Lakes:[14]
The following middle schools feed into Seven Lakes:
The school serves many subdivisions of Cinco Ranch, all of the Seven Meadows community and all of the Grand Lakes community. Many new communities located around the Westpark Tollway area are also zoned to Seven Lakes High School.
A comprehensive list of all communities, subdivisions, areas, and neighborhoods zoned to Seven Lakes High School can be found here.
Newsweek annually ranks the top 1,600 public high schools in the nation out of the approximately 27,000 that exist in the country. Making the top 1600 places a high school in the top 6% in the nation. Seven Lakes has made this list for at least the past two years.
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