ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL (ARLINGTON, TEXAS)

'Arlington High School' is a secondary school serving grades 9-12 located in Arlington, Texas and is part of the Arlington Independent School District. The current principal is James Adams. The mascot of the school is the Colt, and the school colors are green and white. Students from Junior High at Bailey, Gunn and portions of Carter go to High School at Arlington. Arlington High School has been accepted to be an International Baccalaureate School.
Arlington High School serves portions of Arlington and the towns of Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego.
The original AHS campus now houses the College of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Contents

Athletics

Fine Arts

Feeder Patterns

Notable Alumni

External links

Athletics

Arlington High is the only high school in Arlington to ever win a state title in football (1951). The head coach is Scott Peach, whose father is head coach of Lamar High School. Arlington High has had the most successful football program in the school district over the last five years with three trips to the playoffs and a 6-4 playoff record. Arlington High's volleyball program usually goes to playoffs and has more state titles (1970, 1976, 1982) than any other high school in the North Texas area.^[1] AHS also has exceptional gymnastics, softball, cheerleading, baseball, cross country, golf, swimming and soccer programs. Wrestling consistently sends its participants to compete at State level competition. Interscholastically, tennis and basketball are not as developed.

Fine Arts

Arlington High School has an involved and adept fine arts programs. The Theatre Arts Department won the State Championship in UIL One-Act Play in 2005. Arlington High's play, "An Experiment with an Air Pump," was chosen 1st place among over 250 other high schools in their conference. The orchestra program has won Sweepstakes at UIL (University Interscholastic League). The orchestra program has been receiving Sweepstakes since 1979. The band program has also consistently taken the Sweepstakes at UIL for the last decade. The Arlington High School Choir, Colt Chorale has also enjoyed much success within recent years, attending the prestigious Texas Music Educators Association Convention in 2005 and winning numerous Sweepstakes in UIL. On March 7, 2007 Colt Chorale will be singing at the American Chorale Directors Association Convention in Miami, Florida, which is the highest national honor that a choir can receive. It is likely that over 300 students will enroll in AHS' orchestra in the 2006-2007 school year. The choir has over 300 students; the band almost has 200: the theatre over 300.

Feeder Patterns

Duff, Hill, Swift, South Davis, and a portion of Dunn elementaries feed into Bailey. Bailey sends all of its students into AHS. Key and Short are two of three elementaries from Gunn that flow into AHS. Gunn sends the majority of its students to AHS and the rest go to Bowie. Carter junior high sends a small portion of its population to AHS.

Notable Alumni

★ Ali Haji-Sheikh, Collegiate and professional football player

★ Gretchen Polhemus, '83, Miss USA 1989, 2nd runner up Miss Universe 1990

★ Bowie Hogg, '96, Television contestant on season #1 of The Apprentice

★ Dimebag Darrell Abbott, '84, Founding member and lead guitarist for heavy metal band Pantera

★ David Castro III, Film & TV actor. Credits include "The Source", "Scarecrow Slayer", "May Day", "No Ordinary Hero", "Liar" and "America's Most Wanted".

★ Brian Eppes, Television actor. Played Michael on the children's television show Barney & Friends.

★ Mike Bain, '85, Recording artist and ticket stub tearer at movie theater

★ Gary Troup, Author of The Valenzetti Equation. Deceased.

★ Jay Hosfelt, Animator on Gears of War.

★ Hunter Pence, Houston Astros CF

External links

★ Arlington High School Homepage

★ Arlington Independent School District Homepage