Emmett J. Conrad High School is a public high school located in

Vickery Meadow Vickery Meadow is an ethnically-diverse neighborhood consisting almost exclusively of apartment complexes in Northeast Dallas, Texas, United States. The Vickery Midtown Public Improvement District states the neighborhood is bounded by Northwest ...

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

. Emmett J. Conrad High School, which covers grades 9-12, is a part of the

Dallas Independent School District The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD or DISD) is a school district based in Dallas, Texas ( USA). It operates schools in much of Dallas County and is the second-largest school district in Texas and the seventeenth-largest in the ...

. The school serves most of Vickery Meadow and the DISD portion of Highland Meadows. It is named for Dallas surgeon and civic leader Emmett James Conrad. In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the

Texas Education Agency The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States.

History

The district projected that Conrad would have a higher enrollment. But by 2012 the enrollment was lower than expected as several area apartment complexes had been razed. In 2015 its student body was 66% of the school's official capacity.

Features

Built in 2006 for $42.3 million, the school was designed to hold 2,000 students. The building features 46 core classrooms on 40 acres, including classrooms for performing arts, visual arts, media, science, and instructional technology. The campus has student dining areas and athletic fields.

Athletics

The Emmett J. Conrad Chargers compete in UIL district 11-5A in the following sports: *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

* Cross Country * Football *

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

* Soccer *

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

* Swimming and Diving *

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

To date, under the leadership of Athletic Coordinator M.T. Tyeskie, Conrad High School has had 39 students receive athletic scholarships. Conrad has competed in five UIL state tournaments (cross country 2016 and 2017, wrestling 2014 and 2018, and track and field 2018). Conrad now has the distinction of being the expense of Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School ending their 77-game losing streak, the 2nd longest in Texas High School Football history.

Swimming

Small in size by 5A standards, the Conrad swimming and diving team found some success starting in the 2016-2017 season. Previously coached by Joanna McDowell in 2017, the team earned 3rd place at District UIL competition and won at other various meets.

Robotics

Conrad has offered robotics programs open to all students to apply since 2009. The program is centered around

FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weig ...

team FRC3005. The RoboChargers is a year round program which meets outside of school hours. The RoboChargers, founded in 2009, have won numerous awards in recent years, including their first "blue banner" event win at the Colorado Regional in 2018. The RoboChargers have competed in the UIL State Robotics tournament since its initial year of creation in 2016. Competing in the FIRST (FRC) Division in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and winning runner-up in 2018 with partners FRC148 and FRC4639. There are also four FIRST Tech Challenge teams, founded in 2017, that are part of the program. The RoboCharger teams are supported and mentored by professionals from companies including

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globa ...

Safeco Safeco Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is an American insurance company. It held the naming rights to the Seattle Mariners' baseball stadium Safeco Field from its opening in 1999 through the end of the 2018 season. History Safeco ...

Boeing The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and p ...

, and Exxon.

Feeder patterns

As of the 2022-2023 school year, L. L. Hotchkiss, Jack Lowe Sr., Lee McShan Jr., Highland Meadows, and Jill Stone Elementary Schools feed into Tasby Middle School and then Conrad High School.

References

External links

*
Dallas ISD listing for Emmett J. Conrad
(Archive)
Conrad High School's FIRST Robotics Team
{{DEFAULTSORT:Conrad, Emmett J. Dallas Independent School District high schools Public high schools in Dallas Educational institutions established in 2006 2006 establishments in Texas