Thurgood Marshall High School is a public high school located in

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and is a part of the Fort Bend Independent School District. Marshall, serving grades 9 through 12, serves sections of Missouri City and a portion of the

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, including sections of Fifth Street. A small portion of the

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is in the school's boundary. Marshall was named after

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, the first African-American to serve in the Supreme Court of the United States. The mascot is the Buffalo Soldier represented by the Marshall Buffalo and the school colors are black and gold.

History

Marshall opened on August 15, 2002 and was dedicated on October 13 of the same year. Marshall was FBISD’s Ninth Comprehensive School. Marshall is magnetized for its three career academies, Electronic Engineering (EE), Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (Discontinued), and Fire Science Technology. The EE Academy's FIRST Robotics team has received distinguished honors from FIRST in its six years of existence. In the Fall of 2009 they are proposed to open the first

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program in Fort Bend Independent School District. The Air Force JROTC Unit at Thurgood Marshall High School earned the 2009-2010 Distinguished Unit Award. During the 2009-2010 school year, Marshall was rated as a recognized school for the first time in school history.

Attendance zone

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(HHA) public housing complex, Willow Park Apartments, is assigned to Marshall High.

Athletics

Men's

* Football **2019 State Finalist (5A/D2) *

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Women's

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*Track & Field *Basketball *Swimming *

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*Tennis

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Marshall: * Armstrong * Glover * Hunters Glen * E.A. Jones The following middle schools feed into Marshall: * Missouri City

Notable alumni

Antwon Blake Valentino Antwon Blake (born August 9, 1990) is a former American football cornerback and special teamer. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2012 and also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Tennessee Titans ...

(class of 2008):

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player in the NFL since 2012 *

Aubrey Coleman Aubrey Gene Coleman (born October 9, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for Spartak Primorye of the Russian Super League. He played college basketball as an all-Conference USA player for the University of Houston where he becam ...

(class of 2005): professional basketball player since 2010 *

Knile Davis Knile Rashaad Davis (born October 5, 1991) is a former American football running back. He played college football at Arkansas and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He has also had brief stints with ...

(class of 2009): American football player in the NFL since 2013 *

Kendall Sheffield Kendall Sheffield (born May 30, 1996) is an American football cornerback who is a free agent. He played college football at Ohio State, and selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth round in the 2019 NFL Draft. High school career Sheffie ...

(class of 2015):

player for the

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DeAndré Washington DeAndré Washington (born February 22, 1993) is a former American football running back. He played college football at Texas Tech, and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft. Early years Washington atten ...

(class of 2011): American football player in the NFL since 2016 *

C. J. Webster Clifton Darryl Webster, Jr. (born October 29, 1986) is an American professional basketball forward. Early life Webster was born in Houston, Texas and graduated from Thurgood Marshall High School at Missouri City, Texas in 2004. College In ...

(class of 2005): professional basketball player since 2010

References

External links

* {{authority control Fort Bend Independent School District high schools Magnet schools in Texas Educational institutions established in 2002 2002 establishments in Texas Missouri City, Texas