Greenwood High School is a public, co-educational 9-12 secondary school in the
Greenwood area, in
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Midland County, Texas
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, with a
Midland postal address. It is a part of the
Greenwood Independent School District
Greenwood Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Greenwood, Texas ( USA). Greenwood ISD serves approximately 3,000 students. The district's mascot is the ranger/rangerette. As of 2015, Ariel Elliott is t ...
. (This is not the same school as the defunct Greenwood High School in Wise County, Texas where NAIA scoring champion and #1 NBA draft pick
Clifton McNeely attended in the 1930's.)
Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 527 students enrolled in 2013-14 was:
*Male - 55.8%
*Female - 44.2%
*Native American/Alaskan - 0.2%
*Asian/Pacific islanders - 0.2%
*Black - 1.3%
*Hispanic - 37.4%
*White - 59.4%
*Multiracial - 1.5%
21.6% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Athletics
Greenwood High School fields teams in
football
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,
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 tea ...
,
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
,
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 Summ ...
,
cross country,
tennis
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,
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 wi ...
,
softball
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,
powerlifting
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, and
track and field
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. They compete in
UIL district 4A.
Mascot
The mascot for Greenwood High is the Ranger man. He is commonly seen with 2
revolvers
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and a
cowboy hat
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. Recently, a female counterpart has been with the Ranger man named the Rangerette.
Welding
GISD has had a very impressive
welding
Welding is a fabrication (metal), fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing Fusion welding, fusion. Welding is distinct from lower ...
team for quite a long time. The leader of the team is the welding instructure, Terryel Gloden.
References
External links
Greenwood High School
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Public high schools in Texas
Schools in Midland County, Texas