Clear Lake High School is a public secondary school located in

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, United States. The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the

Clear Creek Independent School District Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD) is a school district based in League City, Texas, United States. The district serves most of the Clear Lake Area and some other neighboring parts of the Houston metropolitan area. CCISD is the 29t ...

. The school serves portions of Houston (including most of

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, Taylor Lake Village and

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(including

). It previously served the cities of Seabrook, El Lago, and the El Jardin del Mar portion of Pasadena, until Clear Falls High School in

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opened. Its colors are red, blue, and white. Its mascot and symbol is the Falcon.

History

Clear Lake High School opened in 1972 to alleviate overcrowding at what was then the district's only high school, Clear Creek High School with the first class graduating in 1973. The current campus has a ninth grade center — formerly Space Center Intermediate School — field house, and athletic fields, all across the street from the

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. The ninth grade annex was first added to the Clear Lake High School campus in 1978. Later, the 9th grade center was used as Space Center Intermediate School but returned to a 9th grade center when SCIS moved to a newly built campus for the 1999–2000 school year. In 1984 psychologists enacted anti-suicide seminars at Clear Lake HS after a wave of suicides of students in CCISD, which took place outside of school campuses. For the 1986–87 school year Clear Lake High School became a

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. Clear Lake High School is currently the largest school in Texas with a

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(TEA) ranking of Recognized. The school discovered large-scale cheating in an English IV final examination in 2012. The school invalidated all English IV final exam results, allowing students who did not cheat to have a final grade without the final or to take the final again. The students who cheated received scores of zero.

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 2,396 students enrolled in 2015-2016 was: *Male - 52.0% *Female - 48.0% *Native American/Alaskan - 0.3% *Asian/Pacific islanders - 15.4% *Black - 6.6% *Hispanic - 23.8% *White - 49.7% *Multiracial - 4.2% 19.9% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch.

Campus

In May 2013 voters in CCISD approved a $367 million district bond. According to the referendum, Clear Lake High will get new campus buildings, valued at $98.6 million total. PBK Architects designed the new additions, a two-story classroom building and a fine arts center. Construction is scheduled to begin in April 2014. Construction was finished in January 2018. A soccer ball carried aboard the fatal final flight of Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' by astronaut

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, whose children attended Clear Lake High School and who coached the soccer team, is displayed in the school.

Extracurricular activities

In 2005 the school had 525 students enrolled in its music classes. That year, the school was named a

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. Its music department received a grant for $2,000.

Notable alumni

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, professional soccer player *

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, Actress *

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placekicker *

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, novelist *

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, metalcore band * Daniel Lue, Contestant on Survivor: The Amazon *

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, classical saxophonist *

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, NFL football player *

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, NFL football player * Josh McNary, NFL football player *

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, NFL football player *

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, U.S. Congressman * Christine Paolilla, perpetrator of Clear Lake murder.Fulginiti, Mary, Kristin Pisarcik, Miguel Sancho, and Tom McCarthy. "High School 'Miss Irresistible' Accused of Killing Friends." ''

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baseball player * Anuraag Singhal, United States District Judge *

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fighter *

Jon Switzer Jon Michael Switzer (born August 13, 1979) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Amateur career High school Switzer is a 1998 graduate of Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas While there he was three-year letterwinner and was s ...

, MLB baseball player *

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, actress, pinup model and author *

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, NFL football player *

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* {{authority control High schools in Harris County, Texas Public high schools in Houston Greater Houston Galveston Bay Area Clear Creek Independent School District high schools Educational institutions established in 1972