Glenda Dawson High School (DHS) is a public high school in

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, United States. It is a part of the

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serving grades 9 through 12. In 2014, the school was awarded a national rank of 1,165th by '' U.S. News & World Report'', which puts it in the silver medal category. ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks it 106th in Texas and 895th nationally. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the

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History

Dawson, which opened in fall 2007, relieved students from the over-crowded

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. Dawson serves sections of Pearland, sections of Brookside Village, and

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s (including Silverlake). The school was named after former Texas Representative Glenda Dawson, who taught for 34 years at Pearland High School. The groundbreaking ceremony occurred on August 1, 2007 with the school opening for the start of the 2009-10 school year. In fall 2007, the current Pearland Ninth Grade Center was converted into a temporary Dawson High School for two years; it served 9th and 10th graders the first year and 9th, 10th, and 11th graders in the second year. Dawson High School's mascot is the Eagles, the same mascot as Pearland's Challenger Elementary School. Dawson's school colors are red, white, and blue. The school was originally designed to house about 2,000 students.Nix, Kristi.
Pearland ISD officials: Overcrowding at Dawson could open door to 2016 bond election
" Houston Community Newspapers. Thursday September 17, 2015. Retrieved on June 16, 2016. On March 8, 2013 the school had 2,110 students. By 2013 the growing enrollment meant that the school could be reclassified into a higher

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(UIL) ranking, affecting the placement of its athletic teams. The district estimated that enrollment at Dawson would reach 2,500 by 2021. In 2015 Pearland ISD administrators told members of the PISD board of trustees that they may want to have another bond election in 2016. In November 2016, the bond passed.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

The Dawson Eagles compete in these sports *

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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 ...

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effo ...

* 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 ...

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Feeder patterns

The following elementary school

feed into Dawson

* Challenger * Silvercrest * Silverlake * Carleston (partial) * Lawhon (partial) * Massey Ranch (partial) The following middle schools feed into Dawson - * Rogers Middle School * Jamison Middle School (Partial) * Sablatura Middle School (Partial) The following junior high schools feed into Dawson - * Berry Miller Junior High School * Pearland Junior High West (Partial) * Pearland Junior High South (Partial)

Notable alumni

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, 2015, actress, ''

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References

External links

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Pearland ISD
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