Hyde Park Schools is a

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K-12 located in

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. Hyde Park has two campuses: the Speedway Campus for 4K through 8th grades campus and the Quarries Campus for high school.Home
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History

Hyde Park High School was founded in 1980, and is associated with the

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denomination of

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. Hyde Park has a

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program that emphasizes Christian values.

Campuses

Hyde Park High School is a ministry of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. The High School is located at 11400 N. Mopac, Austin, Texas. Enrollment generally runs from 200-300 students. It moved to this location in the fall of 2009. Before this time it was located at 3901 Speedway with the Elementary and Middle School campuses. It was founded in 1980 by Bob Edd Shotwell, who also founded Hyde Park Baptist Elementary in 1968.

Associations

The school is now a member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), the Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools (SBACS), and

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(TAPPS).

Extracurricular activities

Sports

Hyde Park athletics is led by

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/head

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coach Dean Campbell. Dean Campbell has coached at the college football level at many different universities, including the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech, Arkansas, and Air Force. Campbell's goal for Hyde Park athletics is stated as "One foundational goal for our program is to provide strong leadership for our student-athletes through the Christian role models of our coaches." *

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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 ...

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(Boys and Girls) * Cross Country * Track *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

(Boys and Girls) *

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(Boys and Girls) *

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* Spelling athletes

Fine arts

* Prancers (

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) * Joyful Noise (

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)

References

External links

Official site
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