Thurgood Marshall High School is a

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located in

Missouri City Missouri City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small portion in Harris County. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 74,259, an increase ...

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and is a part of the

Fort Bend Independent School District Fort Bend Independent School District, also known as Fort Bend ISD or FBISD, is a school district that operates 86 schools in Fort Bend County. Based in Sugar Land, Texas, it is the 5th most diverse school district in Texas and is the 43rd la ...

. 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

Thurgood Marshall Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme C ...

, 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

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

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 (appro ...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

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Women's

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*Track & Field *Basketball *Swimming *

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

*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

Aubrey Coleman Aubrey Gene Coleman (born October 9, 1987) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball as an all-Conference USA player for the University of Houston where he became the NCAA's leading scorer for the 2010 sea ...

(2005): professional basketball player since 2010 * C. J. Webster (2005): professional basketball player * Stephen Williams (2005), former

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wide receiver * Antwon Blake (2008):

cornerback *

Knile Davis Knile Rashaad Davis (born October 5, 1991) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was selected by the Kansas Ci ...

(2009): former

running back * DeAndré Washington (2011): former

running back *

Kendall Sheffield Kendall Sheffield (born May 30, 1996) is an American professional football cornerback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and was selected by the Atlanta Falcons i ...

(2015):

cornerback since 2019 * De'Von Achane (2020):

running back * A. J. Haulcy (2022): college football defensive back * Chris Marshall (2022): college football wide receiver * Jaland Lowe (2023) - College basketball player for

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

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