John H. Guyer High School is a public high school situated in the city of

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, in

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and classified as a 6A school by the UIL. It is a part of the

Denton Independent School District Denton Independent School District, sometimes shortened to Denton ISD, is a school district based in Denton, Texas. DISD's superintendent is Jamie Wilson. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education ...

located in central

. This was the third high school built by the district and was opened in 2005. In 2013, the school was rated "

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" by the

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. The school's namesake was a former principal at

Denton High School Denton High School is a public high school located in the city of Denton, Texas and classified as a 5A school by the UIL. It is a part of the Denton Independent School District located in central Denton County and was the original high school ...

who later served as assistant to the Denton ISD Superintendent. Initially, officials of Denton ISD expected Guyer to be slow to grow, but those thoughts were soon disproved by the flood of transfers from other high schools in the area to Guyer. This unexpected influx of students made it necessary to add twelve portable classrooms to the original school. Renovations were made to include a 10th through 12th grade wing and increased capacity of up to 3,200 students. They were finished by the start of the 2018–19 school year. Its boundary includes sections of Denton, all of the

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, and sections of Bartonville,

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, Double Oak, and

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Athletics

State titles

*Football: **2012(4A/D1), 2013(4A/D1) *Girls soccer:UIL Girls Soccer Archives
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References

External links

Denton ISD
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