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Morton High School is a
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located in
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United States. It is part of the Morton Independent School District, which is located in central Cochran County, and is classified as a 1A school by the UIL.


History

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.
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Athletics

The Morton Indians compete 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 tea ...
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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 Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
* Cross Country *
Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 events ...


State Titles

*Boys Basketball **1972(2A), 1977(2A), 1983(2A), 1986(2A), 1987(2A), 2005(1A/D1) *Girls Basketball UIL Girls Basketball Archives
**1987(2A) * In 1987, both the boys and girls won state championships in basketball !!!


Notable alumni

*Christopher Hester, Class of 1991, President and Founder of Kinnser Software.
Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year The EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards previously Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards is an award sponsored by Ernst & Young in recognition of entrepreneurship. Founded in 1986 in Milwaukee as a single award, as of 2016 twenty-five pro ...
Award winner, 2016.


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Morton ISD
Public high schools in Texas Schools in Cochran County, Texas {{Texas-high-school-stub