Tuloso-Midway High School is a

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in Corpus Christi,

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and is part of the

Tuloso-Midway Independent School District Tuloso-Midway Independent School District is a public school district in Nueces County, Texas (USA). Their mascots are warriors, for the males and Cherokees representing females. The school colors are maroon and gold. Tuloso-Midway is part of the ...

History

Tuloso-Midway Independent School District began in 1887 when a schoolhouse was constructed on donated land in the Tuloso area. The school's first teacher was an individual named Murdock who taught nine students for a six-month term. Twenty-seven years later, in 1914, the first Midway school was established in an adjacent community. In 1938, the Tuloso and Midway communities planned the formation of the Tuluso-Midway Independent School District. By 1947, the district had come into being. Two years later, in 1949, the school district had its first graduating class consisting of five students. Tuluso-Midway Independent School District continued to expand in May 1969, absorbing the Clarkwood Independent School District and the Violet Common School District. The newly formed district briefly adopted the name of The Tuloso-Midway Consolidated Independent School District. A year later the district's name reverted to the original name. In the late 1960s, it opened a new campus on La Branch Parkway, a large indoor-outdoor complex with architecture featuring a domed auditorium, a crescent-shaped roof on its gymnasium, and a large interior band hall. The campus had a central courtyard and was located adjacent to the West Guth Park. The school was well-suited to its student body with very modern facilities, until population growth in the 1980s forced the district to call for a bond election to upgrade the facilities. That election gave rise to the new Tuloso-Midway Rand Morgan High School in 1985. Named after the owner of the donated land, Tuloso-Midway High School re-emerged on Haven Drive off McKenzie Road with a large indoor complex built to accommodate over 2000 students, complete with an indoor swimming pool, a new football stadium, baseball field, tennis center, and athletic field house. The school retained the Rand Morgan portion of the name for several years until the period for that stipulation elapsed. In the 2000s, in an effort to keep the high school at the forefront of facilities in South Texas, two different bond elections were passed which included additional improvements. The first called for a new two-story science wing to be built on the south end of the existing building. The second bond election in 2008 took the improvements a step further and changed the look of the campus completely. The Dr. Sue Nelson Performing Arts Complex was built at the entrance to the school, with the goal of enhancing the school's performing arts program in 2014. The TM theatre department is proud to be home of 2018 5A and 2021 4A UIL One Act Play State Champions. Some of the plays TM Theatre has performed are, "These Shining Lives"," The Caucasian Chalk Circle","Moon Over Buffalo", and "Little Shop of Horrors". Tuloso Midway is also proud to be led by directors, Ms.Wendy Pratt, Mrs. Lynn Esquivel, and Mr. Curtis Ashby. This award winning team has worked together for 10+ years as of 2023. New and state-of-the-art baseball and softball fields were also added to the complex, as was a domed facility for indoor events.

2015 accountability rating

Based on the accountability ratings released 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.

in 2015, Tuloso-Midway High's Accountability Ratng was "Met Standard" with two Distinction Designations, Top 25 Percent Closing Performance Gaps and Postsecondary Readiness.

Athletics

Boys' teams are referred to as the Warriors and girls' teams are referred to as the Cherokees. The Tuloso-Midway teams 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 ...

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

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

* Girls basketball ** 1970 (3A) * Boys cross countryUIL Centennial Web page
** 2001 (4A)

References

External links

* {{authority control High schools in Corpus Christi, Texas Public high schools in Texas 1947 establishments in Texas