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Woodrow Wilson High School, commonly known locally in short as Woodrow, is a
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located in
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,
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(U.S.). Woodrow enrolls students in
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912 and is a part of the
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(DISD). It is located adjacent to the
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historic district.PDF
(includes map of the district, which indicates the locations of Lipscomb, the library, and Woodrow Wilson) and (includes map of the district)
It was named in honor of former
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, who died just three years before the school building was completed. The structure is a
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, as well as a
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, the highest honor the state can bestow on a historic structure. The
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wrote that the Woodrow Wilson school "defines how a historic neighborhood school can remain a vital and integral part of the educational process and continue to serve surrounding historic neighborhoods." In 2009, DISD authorized Woodrow to apply to become certified as the first Dallas school to be authorized as an IB World School offering the
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(IB degree). It earned its official designation as an IB World School on March 18, 2011. In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the
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.


History


Early history

Designed by Dallas architect Mark Lemmon, the school opened in 1928, and was constructed in the
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style."Second junior high starts shaping up," ''
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'', April 24, 1933, section 1, page 3: "The exterior of the .L. Long Junior Highbuilding has been designed in Elizabethan style to harmonize with the previously established Woodrow Wilson High School, on the campus of which it is being constructed." - Available from NewsBank Readex, accessible with a
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library card.
At the
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-laying ceremony in April 1927, a piece of the
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of Woodrow Wilson's second daughter, Jessie, was included in the cornerstone "in memory of Mr. Wilson.""School corner stone holds wedding cake of Wilson's daughter," ''
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'', April 21, 1927, section 2, page 15. - Available from NewsBank Readex, accessible with a
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library card.
At
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700,000, the school's cost exceeded that of the district's previous four high schools by at least $100,000."Wilson High being built: Masonry work started on big East Dallas school," ''
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'', March 24, 1927, section 2, page 13. - Available from NewsBank Readex, accessible with a
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library card.
The ornamental lighting was made by Potter Art Metal Studios of Dallas. Special features of the building included a gymnasium boasting "one entire wall of glass windows" and an auditorium that was to be the "best equipped and best lighted" in the district, with footlights and a separately ventilated
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."Woodrow Wilson High School ready for equipment," ''
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'', May 18, 1928, section 2, page 13. - Available from NewsBank Readex, accessible with a
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A theater organ was later placed in the pit and pipes put in special lofts on the third level. The September 1928, ''Dallas Herald'' said the school "presents a rare spectacle from afar." Photos and the original blueprints of the school building were featured in an exhibition celebrating the works of Mark Lemmon at The Meadows Museum.Press information related to the Mark Lemmon exhibit
, from the Meadows Museum.
The school has been colloquially called "Woodrow" by students and community members from its beginning, fostered by first principal G.L. "Pop" Ashburn, who led the school until 1956. The mascot of the school is the Wildcat. A
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chapter was formed for the school even before its 1928 opening."Wilson High P.-T.A. to be organized," ''The Dallas Morning News'', August 26, 1928. Society News section, page 4. - Available from NewsBank Readex, accessible with a
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Until 1957 (when
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opened), Woodrow was the only "
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" high school. The original principal of Woodrow Wilson served for 30 years.Lyons, Gene. "This is Woodrow Wilson: A School that Works." ''
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1960s through early 2000s

Woodrow Wilson integrated in the 1960s as the percentage of black and Hispanic students increased year after year. Gene Lyons of ''
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'' stated in 1979 that "In short, everything that has been happening demographically within the DISD and, by extension, within U.S. big-city high schools has been happening to Woodrow Wilson."Lyons, Gene. "This is Woodrow Wilson: A School that Works." ''
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In 1976 federal judge William McLaughlin Taylor Jr. wrote a school integration order for Dallas. This initial order stated that the enrollments should be balanced by closing Woodrow Wilson. The school remained open after residents of Lakewood protested, saying that it would close an already-integrated school.Lyons, Gene. "This is Woodrow Wilson: A School that Works." ''
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His order did not require education levels after grade 8 to use
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. Lyons wrote that therefore Woodrow Wilson was "one of the few "naturally integrated" schools in Dallas." In 1981, interiors for the movie ''
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'' starring
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, were filmed at the school.Jan Hubbard. "Titles rare at school -- but not winners - Heismans make Woodrow Wilson unique," ''The Dallas Morning News'', December 6, 1987, : "The school was built in 1928 on muddy roads at what now is the corner of Glasgow and Reiger in East Dallas. It is such a throwback to what schools once looked like that producers of ''Crisis at Central High'', a movie made in the early 1980s about desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., shot all of the interior scenes of the movie inside Woodrow." In 2004, thousands attended Woodrow's 75th Anniversary Celebration, which included a parade (from Lakewood to the school, with Congressman
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as Grand Marshal, chauffeured in a new Ford Mustang driven by fellow alumnus
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, the legendary auto designer and builder), followed by an auditorium-packed program at which a new group of members was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Scores of "mini-reunions" also were held during that day in assigned rooms throughout the school. In October 2007, the school was cited as one of 39 model schools in Science and Math by the
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.


Choose Woodrow and Rod Dreher's article

Around 2008, Woodrow parents launched "Choose Woodrow," a program aimed towards attracting families in the Lakewood neighborhood towards Woodrow.Fischer, Kent.
Woodrow Wilson High parents want more families to choose Dallas ISD


. ''
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, a
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columnist in ''
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'', argued that the program was unfair. Dreher argued that even if the campaign attracted more white students who would raise the school's test scores overall, it would not help lower performing minority students who are enrolled at Woodrow. Rick Wamre, the president of Advocate Media, wrote in the ''Lakewood Advocate'' that Dreher had wrongly insinuated that the "Choose Woodrow" parents were racists. Jim Schutze of ''
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'' wrote that the article had accurate observations about the campaign targeting white persons and the disparity of the school, but he criticized what he called the piece's "painting a picture of the white people who send their kids to Woodrow as somehow racist, because their kids are mainly in the advanced placement classes and the kids of color are mainly not."Schutze, Jim.
Why Rod Dreher Really Isn't Wild About the Woodrow Wildcats

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Michael Landauer wrote an editorial in the ''Dallas Morning News'' stating that Dreher made an "unfair" accusation against the Woodrow Wilson parents and that he "actively chooses to assign dark motives to people who are taking an active role in their neighborhood school." In response to the above articles, Dreher defended his column and posted rebuttals against his critics' arguments.


Late 2000s to present

In 2009, Woodrow celebrated its 80th anniversary. In honor of
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us
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's designation as Grand Marshal of the 80th Anniversary Parade, scores of non-Woodrow graduates joined the parade — most showing off their Ford/
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s or Cobras, but a few were driving
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s (another vehicle Shelby helped develop). During the main ceremony in the school's packed auditorium, the Alumni Association inducted twenty more individuals into Woodrow's Hall of Fame. The celebration concluded with an "Alumni Band Roundup" at Eddie Deen's Ranch that evening, where hundreds of Woodrow alums ate, drank, and enjoyed each other while listening and dancing to music played by eight bands, each composed of Woodrow Alums (with a few ringers here and there) from various classes between 1960 and 2008. A documentary video of the 80th Anniversary Celebration was produced by Michael Barnes and Kathy Kilmer Moak, both from the class of 1967. It featured historical photographs and interviews with many alums interspersed with clips of events during the 80th Anniversary Celebration. It premiered at the Lakewood Theater in the fall of 2009. In the fall of 2009, Woodrow became one of four high schools in Texas to be designated as candidates for designation as an IB World School. In March 2011, the school earned the IB designation after a rigorous three-year application process, including an extensive site visit by the IB Organization. In December 2009, Woodrow earned the Texas ACT College Readiness Award, the only Dallas comprehensive high school to receive that honor. The Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation was formed in 2009. The Community Foundation's purpose is to raise funds, grants, and scholarships to support the faculty, students, and programs at Woodrow and its feeder schools. It also exists to cultivate other area programs and projects.Jennings, Jordan, Amanda Presmyk, Laura Murphy, and Essete Workneh., "Discrepancy between levels of public education visible in Dallas." ''
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In 2011, ''
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'' ranked high schools based on the quantity of AP/IB exams taken per graduating senior, without taking scores on those exams into account. In the so-called "challenge index", Woodrow finished at 588 out of the top 1,900 high schools in the nation. In 2012, the school moved up 157 places to 431 out of the top 1,900 high schools in America, or the top 9%. In 2015, the school moved up to 271 out of the top 2,300 high schools in the country. This placed Woodrow above all area suburban comprehensive high schools except Highland Park and Colleyville Heritage In 2015, ''
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'' put Woodrow and its feeders at the top of the list in a real estate analysis, "Where to Buy for the Best Schools" Kyle Richardson, who served as principal for a five-year period, left in 2016. In May of that year was replaced by Michael Dang, previously principal of Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet. However Dang resigned in June of that year, Steve Ewing served as principal for 2016–17. Roxanne Cheek served as principal for the 2017–18 school year; she left DISD and became a principal at Aikin Elementary School in the
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. In 2018 Michael Moran, previously an assistant principal at
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, became the principal of Woodrow Wilson. In July 2022, former J.L. Long principal Chandra Hooper-Barnett became Woodrow's new principal.


Campus

The three-story main campus building, made of brick, uses the
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architectural style. The school library is on the third floor. Gene Lyons of ''
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'' wrote that the design features "all reflect the college-prep institution the school was intended to be" when it was first built, citing the library's bay windows and the large lawn. This building is across from Randall Park. In 1979 the school was developing its permanent shop facilities in an addition that had a cost of several million dollars. Previously the school had few industrial education course offerings, and no permanent shop facility was available. A ground-breaking ceremony for the new science/performing arts wing at Woodrow was held on May 23, 2011. The $14 million, structure was authorized in a 2008 DISD bond election. It is only the third expansion of the school's facilities in its 83-year history. (A boys' gym was added in 1953 and another addition was opened in 1979 in time for the school's 50th Anniversary Celebration.) The addition is three stories tall and located at the rear of the campus near "Downtown Lakewood". It houses the new Performing Arts Academy and three laboratories for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy. These academies are part of the school's redesign into four college prep academies which began implementation in the fall of 2010 as a four-year roll-out (the other two academies are the IB Academy and the Business & Entrepreneurship Academy). The building addition was designed by Brown Reynolds Watford Architects with offices in Dallas, Houston, College Station and San Francisco. Principal Architect Craig Reynolds is a current Woodrow parent. It features two-story separate choir and drama rooms. The choir room has practice rooms and the drama room features a black-box theater, costume shop and prop facilities. A large dance rehearsal hall is also on the first floor. Three large science labs are on the third floor, along with new restroom facilities. The new addition replaces part of the 1979 wing, which cost $1 million. The areas replaced are former wood and metal shops - no longer needed with the school's new college-prep curriculum. The rest of the 1979 addition is being remodeled into a larger band hall and athletic facilities. There is room left for a future competition-size gymnasium to connect to this area. As part of this same project, Woodrow's main 1928 building had its original windows restored and HVAC replaced, including new air exchangers in the auditorium courtyards. The first-floor restrooms were restored to the historic marble and wood and the second and third level facilities were gutted and replaced with modern fixtures. Electrical fixtures and computer lines throughout the campus were brought up to current standards. Drainage and landscaping improvements were also included in the construction, along with resurfacing of the parking lots and the Tim Brown-Davey O'Brien Track. As of January 2013, the wing has been occupied by students; the official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on March 23, 2013. An addition, also with three stories, and a new gymnasium for athletic games are scheduled to be finished on June 27, 2019.


School operations

The
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campus profiles circa 2011 stated that the funds spent per student at Woodrow were similar in amount to those spent per student at Highland Park High School. Woodrow receives financial support from Alumni, its Parent Teacher Organization, and the Community Foundation. As of 2011, due to budget cuts, the school ended its "Professional Learning Community" and reduced its custodial staff to two employees.


Attendance zone

As of 2019 Woodrow serves: most of the upper east side of
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, including: Caruth Terrace, - Compare with the DISD maps. Greenland Hills (the "M Streets") Hollywood Heights/Santa Monica,
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, Lakewood, Lakewood Heights, Lower Greenville, most of Munger Place, almost all of Swiss Avenue, Vickery Place, Wilshire Heights, Mount Auburn, the Belmont Addition, Glencoe, and Stonewall Terrace, As of 1979 the attendance boundary included wealthy, middle class, and working class areas: the wealthiest areas were in the north of the zone, the poorest to the south, and the middle-to-upper income ones to the west. Within the boundary was Lakewood, several condominiums on Bob-O-Links drive, and shotgun shacks in the industrial district.Lyons, Gene. "This is Woodrow Wilson: A School that Works." ''
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Academics and history of student performance

In addition to its regular program, Woodrow offers the IB program to students.


History of academic performance

In 1979 Gene Lyons wrote that academic performance at Woodrow Wilson had declined in the 1970s; he wrote that when comparing performances of Woodrow to those of other schools as well Woodrow's younger students to its older ones, the trends together suggest "an incipient decline." Lyons stated that in 1971 "People who measure quality by the number of graduates who go to college considered it one of the best public high schools in the city." In April 1977 a series of standardized tests was given out to students in DISD high schools. The 9th grade (freshman) students were in the following national
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: 23rd in language, 27th in reading, and 35th in mathematics. 11th and 12th grade (junior and senior) students together had the 38th national percentile in reading and the 41st percentile in language and math. These scores were below that of W. T. White High School, which had percentile scores in the 60s and 70s; and
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, which had percentile scores in the fifties and sixties. In 1978, 34.9% of students graduating from Wilson attended universities, colleges, and/or community colleges, lower than the DISD average of 37.2%. In 1979 the PTA requested that the scores from the April 1977 test be broken down by race, but principal Wayne Pierce stated he did not have access to the figures but that DISD did. The parents wanted to reassure the community that college-bound students were still well-served by the school. Lyons wrote that based on studies reporting that integrating and segregating students by race has "little to no effect upon individual achievement levels" and low test scores in majority black and majority Hispanic schools in Dallas, "there is little doubt that the figures would support such a contention". In the 2005–06 school year, almost 60% of White students took
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classes. During the same year, 7% of Hispanic students and 4% of black students had
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scores at the "college ready" level, or a level for beginning university studies. In 2008 Kent Fischer of ''
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'' wrote "State accountability reports show that white students at Woodrow are generally successful" and that "minority students at Woodrow struggle" as they do at other DISD schools. In November 2011 the
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ranked Woodrow Wilson "Academically Unacceptable". At the time 68% of its students were categorized as at risk. Nearby Highland Park High School in University Park was 7.9% at risk. ''
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'' compared and contrasted the two schools' situations that year.Jennings, Jordan, Amanda Presmyk, Laura Murphy, and Essete Workneh., "Discrepancy between levels of public education visible in Dallas." ''
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''. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Updated on Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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. Retrieved on September 30, 2015.
In 2014 Woodrow Wilson was one of three DISD comprehensive high schools which had a percentage of tested students with a 990 or higher on the
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higher than the DISD overall average of 13.3%. It had 204 students, 21.1% of the tested students, at that level in 2013. In 2014 it was 354 students, 28.8% of the total tested students, an increase by 59 students. The DISD administration stated that students who score 990 or above on the SAT are likely to not require remedial classes when attending universities and colleges. In 2014–15 Woodrow students earned an average
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score of 898 out of 1600, however that number masks the large variation in scores between subgroups. White students scored an average of 1105 out of 1600, while African American students scored 856, and Hispanic students 818. On the ACT, Woodrow students earn an average score of 18 out of 36, similarly there was wide variation in subgroup scores. White students averaged a score of 24, African American students averaged 18, and Hispanic students averaged 17. Also in 2014–15, students took a combined 1,174 AP exams, with 25.9%, 304, scoring higher than 3 out 5 (considered passing). In 2014, the school improved its number of college ready students (defined by DISD as a 990 SAT score) by 137% despite the fact that 150 more juniors took the test.


Extracurricular activities


Athletics

The Woodrow Wilson Wildcats compete in the following sports: *
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*
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* Cross Country *
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*
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*
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*
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* Swimming and Diving *
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*
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*
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*
Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...
Woodrow has been called the "High School Home of the Heisman" because it was the first high school in the nation to be the alma mater of two
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winners:
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(1938) and
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(1987), and it remains the only public high school in the U.S. to have that distinction. In 1979 the school played in the AAAA (4A) division of the
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(UIL), the public school athletic league of Texas. Woodrow Wilson, with 1,450 students chose to play in League 4A, with high schools enrolling around 3,000 students, due to what Lyons called "community pride"; it was eligible to play in the less competitive AAA (3A) league but instead played in 4A. Notwithstanding Tim Brown's efforts, from about the 1980s until fairly recently, Woodrow's football program struggled. However, the Wildcats made the state playoffs in 1991, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, advancing to the second round in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2011. Previous Woodrow teams made state semi-finals in 1951 and 1969, and even earlier teams of the 1930s and 1940s were successful and produced such stars as O'Brien, I. B. Hale '35,
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'38,
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'48, and
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'49. Woodrow's basketball team won state back in 1938, and later produced
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'76, a pro player on five different teams. Recent Woodrow graduate
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was one of the nation's top recruits, according to Rivals.com. He was a small forward for the
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during his freshman year in college. Currently,
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is a professional basketball player for the
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. He was selected as the 14th overall draft pick in the
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by the
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. Woodrow's 2011 basketball team lost in the Regional Quarterfinals to Kimball (62-57), after leading most of the game. Kimball eventually won the state championship. The Wildcats, however finished ahead of Kimball with the number one total team offense in the Dallas Morning News' rankings. In 1953, Woodrow Wilson won the city and state golf championships with brothers Gene and Ross Teter. In 2007, Woodrow's athletics program was ranked No. 6 out of all 4-A high schools in the
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All-Sports competition. The Wildcats' score of 81 was better than 95 other local 4-A and 5-A high schools. That year, seven Woodrow football players made the state all-academic team. In 2010, Woodrow placed 19th in 4-A All Sports Award competition sponsored by The Dallas Morning News - out of 62 4-A schools. Its score of 74 was higher than that of 88 4-A and 5-A schools. The girls' volleyball team and the boys' basketball team went deep into state playoffs with the basketball team being ranked 7th in the state. The tennis team, girls' swimming and both golf teams also did well in playoffs. In 2011 the school moved into the top ten out of 70 ranked schools from Wichita Falls to Texarkana. Its score of 91 points ranked ahead of 133 4-A and 5-A schools. In 2012, Woodrow won nine district titles and several teams advanced in the playoffs, which should have moved the school up in ranking (but the newspaper discontinued the awards).
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and
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were Wildcats who played college football at SMU as well as in the pros. Dallas' Forester Field was named for their father, Herschel, who taught at Woodrow from the opening of the school until the late 1950s. In March 2010, Freshman Grace Choi was ranked first in Texas in girls' golf.


Military

From the school's beginning, a
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program has been part of Woodrow's high school program."Bowley to view R.O.T.C. groups," ''The Dallas Morning News'', December 12, 1928, section 1, page 4. In the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, the school had the largest JROTC program in the nation, with 16 different companies and an ROTC band; a May 1941 article declared the program "largest of its kind in the world.""Woodrow Wilson ROTC holds formal review with new flag flying," ''The Dallas Morning News'', May 15, 1941, section 2, page 1.


Business

By 2019 the school established a special education program, called the "Percolators," where special education students operate a coffee shop for the school community.


Student body

As of 2015, 66.3% of the total student body was Hispanic, 22.2% White, 9% African American, 1.2% Asian, 0.4% Native American. 0.8% of students were of two or more races. 61.5% of the students are classified as economically disadvantaged, about the average for Texas public high schools. Woodrow Wilson, of all DISD high schools sans magnet or choice programs, had the highest number of transfers. That year it had 595 students living outside of the Woodrow Wilson zone. As of 2008, 68% of the students were Hispanic, mainly of Mexican origins. Many of them had immigrated from central Mexico, including
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. 18% of the students were non-Hispanic white, most of them being middle class and some being upper class. Some white students had politically progressive/liberal parents and some had have more moderate political stances and were part of families who had attended Woodrow Wilson for generations. Many white students go on to attend colleges and universities across the United States. 12% of Woodrow students were black, including those residing in
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apartments and some commuting from
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.


Demographic history

In 1928 the students attending Woodrow were of upper middle class and wealthy class families. In 1971 75-80% of Woodrow Wilson's students were Anglo White. By 1979 the percentages were 51% Anglo White, 27% Mexican American, and 22% Black. In 1979 the school had 1,450 students. By 1979 multiple generations of Anglo White families in Lakewood had attended Woodrow Wilson. That year Gene Lyons of ''
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'' wrote that "Woodrow is seen as a community school" in the Lakewood community. As of 1979 the parent-teacher association (PTA) largely originated from wealthier neighborhoods in the north of the Woodrow Wilson attendance zone.


School uniforms

Students are required to wear
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s. The
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specifies that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; parents must specify "
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" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.


Feeder patterns

As of 2015, J.L. Long Middle School ( 6- 8) feeds into Woodrow Wilson.
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(ex-
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) ( K- 5), Lakewood ( K- 5), Geneva Heights (ex-
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) ( PK- 5), William Lipscomb ( PK- 5), and Mount Auburn ( PK- 5) Elementary Schools feed into Woodrow Wilson High School.


Notable alumni

* Len Akin 1936, former
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player (
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) *
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1984, Hall of Fame professional
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player and 1987
Heisman Trophy The Heisman Memorial Trophy ( ; also known simply as the Heisman) is awarded annually since 1935 to the top player in college football. It is considered the most prestigious award in the sport and is presented by the Heisman Trophy Trust followin ...
winner"10 Notable Woodrow Wildcats," ''The Dallas Morning News'', March 7, 2004, Metro section, 15B *
Trammell Crow Fred Trammell Crow (June 10, 1914 – January 14, 2009) was an American real estate developer from Dallas, Texas. He is credited with the creation of several major real estate projects, including the Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center in Atlan ...
1932, major Dallas builder and real estate mogul * Jack Wilson Evans 1940, Mayor of Dallas (1981–1983), CEO of Cullum Companies (Tom Thumb Grocery Stores) *
Eddie Garcia Eduardo "Eddie" Verchez Garcia (; May 2, 1929 – June 21, 2019), colloquially known as Manoy, was a Filipino actor, television personality, and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the greatest Filipino actor of all time, Garcia appeared in nearly ...
1978, former
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player (
Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. They ar ...
) *
Burton Gilliam Burton Gilliam (born August 9, 1938) is an American actor. He is best known for memorable roles in several popular 1970s movies such as ''Blazing Saddles'' and '' Paper Moon'', as well as comedic cameos in '' Back to the Future, Part III'' (1990 ...
1956, character actor in films and television * Xavier Gipson (born 2001),
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for the
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of the
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(NFL) * Bob Goodrich 1963, 15-time Emmy award-winning producer best known for Monday Night Football also one of Woodrow's many members of the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame *
Ralph Guldahl Ralph J. Guldahl (November 22, 1911 – June 11, 1987) was an American professional golfer, one of the top five players in the sport from 1936 to 1940. He won sixteen PGA Tour-sanctioned tournaments, including three majors (two U.S. Opens and one ...
1930, professional golfer - winner of the Masters and U.S. OpenNotable alumni of Woodrow Wilson High School
HS Game Time. Retrieved July 3, 2008.
* Jack Halliday, football player * Alfred C. Haynes, 1948, retired aviator and airline captain, most famous for the crash landing of
United Airlines Flight 232 United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-1 ...
. *
Jerry Haynes Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011) was an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's sho ...
1944, actor and former children's television host "Mr. Peppermint" *
Dusty Hill Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill (May 19, 1949 – July 28, 2021) was an American musician who was the bassist of the rock band ZZ Top for more than 50 years. He also sang backing and lead vocals and played keyboards. Hill was born in Dallas, Texas. As ...
, bassist for
ZZ Top ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. For almost 56 years, it consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard (musician), Frank Beard, and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill prior to his death in 2021. ZZ ...
* Curley Johnson 1953, punter on
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Super Bowl III Super Bowl III was an American football championship game played on January 12, 1969, at the Miami Orange Bowl, Orange Bowl in Miami, Miami, Florida. It was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the fi ...
championship team *
Sam Johnson Samuel Robert Johnson (October 11, 1930 – May 27, 2020) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the act ...
, United States CongressmanU.S. Congress
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/ref> *
Georgia Carroll Georgia Carroll (November 18, 1919 – January 14, 2011) was an American singer, fashion model, and actress, best known for her work with Kay Kyser's big band orchestra in the mid-1940s. She and Kyser were married in 1944 until he died in 19 ...
1937, model, actress and singer. Posed for "The Spirit of the Centennial" statue at the 1936 Dallas World's Fair and Texas Centennial. *
Alton Lister Alton Lavelle Lister (born October 1, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player. He is currently serving as an assistant coach for TNT Tropang Giga in the Philippine Basketball Association and the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the Univ ...
1976, professional
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player *
Jim Mattox James Albon Mattox (August 29, 1943 – November 20, 2008) was an American lawyer and politician from Texas who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives and two four-year terms as Texas Attorney General, but lost high-pr ...
1961, former Attorney General of Texas and U.S. Congressman * Steve Miller 1961, Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame musician, known for his Steve Miller Band.Tom Alesia. "'Gangster of Love' still drawing the college crowd," ''Wisconsin State Journal'' (Madison, WI), April 11, 1996, Rhythm section, page 6: ''"A UW student in 1962-65, Miller also played in Madison blues-rock bands the Ardells (with Boz Scaggs and Ben Sidran) and the Night Trains."'' *
Davey O'Brien Robert David O'Brien (June 22, 1917 – November 18, 1977) was an American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Philadelphia Eagles for two seasons. He played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs, w ...
1935, professional
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player and 1938
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winner *
William O'Neil William Joseph O'Neil (March 25, 1933 – May 28, 2023) was an American businessman, stockbroker, and writer. He founded the stock brokerage firm William O'Neil & Co. Inc in 1963 and the financial newspaper '' Investor's Business Daily'' in 19 ...
1951, founder and publisher
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* Marvin Runyon 1942, former U.S. Postmaster General, Ford VP of Assembly and Parts, CEO of Nissan USA and Head of the Tennessee Valley Authority. *
Carroll Shelby Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur. Shelby was involved with the AC Cobra and Ford Mustang, Mustang for Ford Motor Company. With driver Ken Miles, he dev ...
1940,
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, 1959 24 Heures du Mans Winner & Founder of Shelby-American Co.Carroll Shelby Website
*
Anthony Randolph Anthony Erwin Randolph Jr. (born July 15, 1989) is a German-born American and naturalized Slovenian former professional basketball player. He represented the senior Slovenian national basketball team, winning the 2017 EuroBasket with them. Born ...
2005,
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playerDallas News
/ref> * Sergio Kindle 2006, former
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player and All-
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for the
Texas Longhorns The Texas Longhorns are the athletic teams representing the University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the Horns and take their name from Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and ...
. * Wallace H. Savage 1929, Mayor of Dallas, 1949–1951 * William M. Steger 1938, former judge of the
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*
Matt Tolentino Matt Tolentino (born May 10, 1985) is a musician and bandleader specializing in the live performance and preservation of pre-swing music, with a focus on American popular songs from 1895 to 1935. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he is the leader of ...
2003, musician and bandleader of
The Singapore Slingers The Singapore Slingers are an American 18-member orchestra based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in performing pre-swing American dance music, with a particular focus on popular songs of the 1920s and early 1930s. They have been called the "co ...
*
Travis Willingham Travis Willingham is an American voice actor known for his character portrayals in video games and English anime Dubbing, dubs. His notable roles include Roy Mustang in the ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' franchise, Cleo in ''Glass Fleet'', Ginko in ''L ...
1999, anime and video game voice actor. *
Lawrence Wright Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as ...
1965,
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-winning author * Malcolm Wallace 1939, economist for the United States Department of Agriculture and press secretary to then-United States Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. * Fredd Young 1980, ap All-American at NMSU, All-Pro, Pro Bowl Seattle Seahawks 1984-87 .Indianapolis Colts 1988-90 *
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1976, Award winning Dallas disc jockey, best female voice , Dallas Observer Readers Poll ,


See also

* List of schools of the Dallas Independent School District * Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Dallas County *
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References


Further reading

* Sessions, Pete (in the
U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...
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In Honor of Woodrow Wilson High School Celebrating Its 90th Anniversary
" In: "Extensions of Remarks, Vol. 155, Pt. 7". United States of America Congressional Record 111th Congress.
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*Visser, Nancy.
International Baccalaureate program helping raise expectations at Woodrow Wilson High

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The Dallas Morning News ''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ' ...
''. September 10, 2010. Updated November 26, 2010.


External links

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Woodrow Wilson High School AlumniWoodrow Wilson High School Parent websiteWoodrow Wilson High School FoundationWoodrow Wilson High School Class Reunion CenterNational Trust for Historic Preservation pages for Woodrow
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Woodrow Wilson Class of 1987 Official WebsiteWoodrow Wilson Class of 1967 Official WebsiteSouthern Methodist University - Meadows Museum exhibit celebrates "The Architecture of Mark Lemmon"
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