Monterey High School is a 5A high school located in central

Lubbock, Texas Lubbock ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the ...

, United States (Monterey High School became a 6A school at the beginning of the 2014–2015 academic year per the UIL realignment announcement of February 2012). Monterey is part of the Lubbock Independent School District. Established in 1955, Monterey was the third high school to be established in Lubbock, after Lubbock High School and Dunbar High School. Dunbar was later changed to a Junior High. The current city of Lubbock started from the merger of two separate communities, Old Lubbock and Monterey. In a compromise move, the residents of Old Lubbock relocated to Monterey but renamed the new community Lubbock; the high school name is in remembrance to Lubbock's past. In 2025, the school won the Girls Basketball 5A Division 2 State Championship.

Notable alumni

* Terry Allen, singer-songwriter * Gary Ashby, former head baseball coach at Texas Tech University * Raymond Beadle, drag racer *

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, drag racer *

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, baseball player * Dustin Burrows, Texas State Representative, District 83 (2015– ) *

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Craig Ehlo Joel Craig Ehlo (; born August 11, 1961) is an American former basketball player. He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with four teams, amassing career totals of 7,492 points, 2,456 assist (basketball), assists a ...

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Joe Ely Joe Ely (; born February 9, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was "one of the main movers" of Austin, Texas' progressive country scene in the 1970s and '80s. He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce ...

, guitarist, singer-songwriter * Kamie Ethridge, women's basketball player *

Jimmie Dale Gilmore Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is an American country singer-songwriter currently living in Austin, Texas. Life and career Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo and raised in Lubbock, Texas. His ear ...

, singer-songwriter * Glenna Goodacre, sculptor * Butch Hancock, singer-songwriter * Wendy M. Masiello, United States Air Force officer *

James Moeser James Charles Moeser (born April 3, 1939) is a musician and university administrator who served as the ninth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a trained concert organist. A native of Colorado City, Texas, Moese ...

, chancellor emeritus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *

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, MLB Baseball player *

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* Arati Prabhakar, director,

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* Ron Reeves *

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, actor, screen writer

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