Palestine High School is a

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located in

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(United States) and classified as a 5A school by the UIL. It is part of the

Palestine Independent School District Palestine Independent School District is a public school district based in Palestine, Texas (USA) that serves approximately 3,500 students in central Anderson County. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Te ...

located in central Anderson County. The old Palestine High School built in 1915 is now The

Museum for East Texas Culture The Museum for East Texas Culture is a museum in Reagan Park in Palestine, Texas. The building was built in 1915 as Palestine High School. It opened in 1916 and graduated its first class in 1917. In 1939 it became a junior high school, and wa ...

. 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.

Athletics

The Palestine Wildcats 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 effor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 events ...

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 ...

State Titles

''Palestine'' (UIL) *Football - **1964 (3A) *Boys Golf - **2005 (3A), 2006 (3A) *Boys 4A Soccer 2016 state champ - ''Palestine Green Bay'' (PVIL) *Boys Basketball - UIL Boys Basketball Archives
**1954 (PVIL-A), 1955 (PVIL-A)

Notable alumni

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, (b. 1947) is a former

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Player and coach. *

Guy Brown Guy Brown, III (born June 1, 1955) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of Houston. Early years Brown attended Palestine High Schoo ...

, (b. 1955) is a former

linebacker for the

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. *

Ivory Lee Brown Ivory Lee Brown (born August 17, 1969)
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, (b. 1969) is a former

running back for

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, (1915–2009) was a

quarterback for the

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, NFL running back, currently a free agent. * James Saxton, (1940–2014) was an All-American

halfback for the

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, (b. 1963) is the former two-term

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. * Rachel Dean , is an Australian clothing designer and manufacturer.

References

External links

Palestine ISD
Schools in Anderson County, Texas Public high schools in Texas 1915 establishments in Texas {{Texas-high-school-stub