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Texas City High School (TCHS) is a public high school in
Texas City, Texas Texas City is a city in Galveston County, Texas, Galveston County in the U.S. state of Texas. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas's Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum-refining and pe ...
, in the
Greater Houston Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Co ...
area. It is one of two high schools in the
Texas City Independent School District Texas City Independent School District is a public school district based in Texas City, Texas. It serves most of Texas City and La Marque as well as a portion of Tiki Island. In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable" ...
(TCISD), the other being
La Marque High School La Marque High School is a public high school in La Marque, Texas, United States in Greater Houston. The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Texas City Independent School District (TCISD); prior to July 1, 2016, the school ...
. The main school building for Texas City High opened in 1952. Another building for Texas City High opened in 1957, and the previous one became Blocker Junior High School. , Texas City High School had 1,791 students.


Academics

Texas City High School is ranked #11,174 in the National Rankings and ranked #1,036 within Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report. 58% of students are proficient in Reading, while 69% of students are proficient in Mathematics. TCHS' student graduation rate is 88%.


Athletics

Texas City High School competes as a member of the
University Interscholastic League The University Interscholastic League (UIL) is an organization that creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, musical, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest organi ...
who creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, musical, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of
Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
. Teams are called the "Stingarees" or "Stings" for short. Colors are Orange and Black. The school sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in
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,
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, Cross Country, Swimming & Diving/
Water Polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
,
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 ...
,
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, and
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. Young women may compete in
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and
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 ...
, while young men may compete in
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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,
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, and
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.


Demographics

The racial makeup of TCHS was 42%
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, 32%
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, 23%
African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
, 2%
Mixed-Race Mixed race people are people of more than one race or ethnicity. A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for mixed race people in a variety of contexts, including ''multiethnic'', ''polyethnic'', occasionally ''bi-ethn ...
, 1% Native American, 0.4
Asian American Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous people ...
, and 0.3% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.


Feeder patterns

Guajardo, Heights, Roosevelt-Wilson, and Kohfeldt elementaries, Levy-Fry Intermediate School, and Blocker Middle School feed into Texas City High.


Notable alumni

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References


External links

* * (2014) * (2004) {{authority control Texas City Independent School District high schools 1952 establishments in Texas Educational institutions established in 1952