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History

Ground broke on Fort Bend ISD High School #11 in July 2008, and the campus opened in the 2010-11 school year to ease overcrowding at Hightower and Elkins high schools. Some Sienna Plantation residents criticized the chosen location of Ridge Point, while Arcola residents had a positive reception to the location. On February 8, 2010, the FBISD board selected "Ridge Point High School" as the school's name. It was chosen to honor area history, specific the Blue Ridge Oil Field and the

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reaching Stafford's Point in 1853. Ridge Point High School is one of two high schools within the Fort Bend Independent School District that is not named after a person. Upon opening the school had 9th and 10th graders, with subsequent grades to be added later. The first graduating class matriculated in 2013.

Feeder pattern

The following elementary schools feed into Ridge Point: * Heritage Rose * Leonetti * Scanlan Oaks * Schiff * Sienna Crossing The following middle schools feed into Ridge Point: * Baines * Thornton

Athletics

Ridge Point athletics are included in UIL District 20-6A division (2016-2022). Other members include FB Austin, FB Bush, FB Clements, FB Dulles, FB Elkins, FB Travis and Richmond George Ranch. The school's athletic teams played at the junior varsity level upon opening. The varsity American football team began operations in the fall of 2012, while all other sports teams began varsity operations in 2011. The Ridge Point football team has been district champions from 2014–18 and again from 2020-21 and advanced to the state semifinals in 2016 and state regional finals in 2020. The Ridge Point volleyball team advanced to the state Final Four in both 2019 and 2021. Boys Athletics: * Baseball * Basketball * Cross Country * Football * Golf * Soccer * Swimming/Diving * Tennis * Track/Field Girls Athletics: * Basketball * Cheer * Cross Country * Golf * Soccer * Softball * Swimming/Diving * Tennis * Track/Field * Volleyball

Academics

Ridge Point offers more than 20 AP courses and six dual credit classes to allow its students to potentially earn college credit while attending high school. Additionally, its Academic Decathlon team has placed in the top 25 in Texas in three different years (2016, 2019 and 2021) and the school produced the World Scholar's Cup global round champions in 2019 in competition held in The Hague, Netherlands.

Notoriety

Sexual misconduct

2011 sexual misconduct case

On June 14, 2011, Anne Lynn Montgomery, a color-guard instructor at Ridge Point, was charged with

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of a minor under 17 and having an improper relationship with a student at two

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schools. Earlier that year, she filed a

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against Bradman Cortez Moore, who she had been living with in Fort Bend County. Moore had been engaged in a

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with Montgomery, one that began when he was 16 while she was a color guard instructor at

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. When Montgomery moved to Bellaire High School, Moore also transferred there for mysterious reasons.

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concluded that he was the father of children born in 2008 and 2009. After the relationship came to public light, Montgomery dropped the restraining order. Although she was working at Ridge Point, she left in April after an investigation was launched.

2016 sexual misconduct case

In March 2016, rumors circulated on campus detailing that teachers were having sex with students and sending nude pictures to them. Two teachers were put on administrative leave afterwards. A month later on April 28, 27-year-old Lillian Cameron, a chemistry teacher, turned herself in to the police after resigning.

Monkeypox outbreak

On August 9, 2022, the district announced that a case of

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had occurred amongst a student of Ridge Point. The student had last been on campus on August 23. On September 16, another case at the school occured, with the infected student having last been on campus on September 12.

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