SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL (DALLAS)

'Skyline High School

Principal	Leslie Williams
School type	Public
School district	Dallas Independent School District
Founded	1970
Location	Dallas, Texas
Mascot	Raider
School colors	Columbia Blue and Scarlet Red

'Skyline High School' is a secondary school in Dallas, Texas. It was the first high school in the United States to offer a magnet school curriculum.
Skyline serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District.

Contents

History

School Performance

Alma Mater

Fight Song

Feeder patterns

Notable alumni

References

History

According to the Dallas Independent School District Web site, Skyline "began with the shared visions of B.J. Stamps, the first high school principal, and Gene Davenport, the first Career Development Center Principal. They were very involved in all aspects of the school's planning process. During construction of the campus, they were surveying the most ambitious project in the history of the DISD. While discussing their future plans for the school, they stopped on the second floor hallway between the B building and the Main Building. As they stood looking out of the window, they could see the familiar view of the Dallas skyline. This was when they decided that Skyline would be the perfect name for the nation's first magnet school." ^[1]
Classes at Skyline began in the fall semester of 1970. Until the main facility at 7777 Forney Road opened early in 1971, instruction was held at other southeast Dallas sites. From its inception, Skyline has offered both a regular high school curriculum and a multitude of magnet school programs. The magnet offerings are organized as ''clusters'', which are collectively called the Career Development Center. Depending on circumstances, a student might have the option of pursuing a traditional curriculum, attending both magnet and traditional classes at Skyline, or attending a Skyline cluster for a portion of the day and regular classes at his or her neighborhood high school for the remainder.
Over time, numerous clusters have left Skyline and moved into facilities of their own, becoming full-fledged DISD magnet high schools. For example, the Performing Arts Cluster and the Health Careers Cluster both discontinued their affiliations with Skyline in 1976 and became, respectively, the (presently-named) Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the High School for the Health Professions (now the School of Health Professions at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center).
At the beginning, Skyline was a three-year high school (grades 10–12). Ninth graders were added in the fall of 1976.

★ 'Mission:' Our mission is to empower our students with the knowledge, skills, integrity, and work ethic to prepare them for life in a globally competitive market.

★ 'Motto:' "Unity in Effort...Pride in Result"

★ 'Enrollment:' 4,601 during the 2004-2005 school year

★ 'Number of teachers:' 280 during the 2004-2005 school year
Trustee district: District 9
Area:
Area 1 - Ivonne Durant

School Performance

Skyline High School, although being a Magnet school, has had a longstanding reputation for having an overall below-state TAKS testing average. However, since the arrival of a new principal, Mr. Leslie Williams, Skyline High School has seen an increase in test scores. Currently, Skyline is undergoing a process to make it into an Exemplary School.
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Alma Mater

'Skyline Alma Mater'
Skyline, our Alma Mater,

Proudly we proclaim

Our respects to all your standards,

Honor to your name.

Guidance, knowledge, inspiration,

We receive from you.

Hail to thee our Alma Mater.

Hail to Skyline High.''

Fight Song

'Skyline Fight Song'
Hit the team across the field.

Show them that we are here.

Set the earth reverberating

With a mighty cheer...Rah! Rah! Rah!

Hit them hard and see how they fall.

Never let that team get the ball.

So hail, hail, the gang's all here.

So stand up for Skyline High!''

Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Skyline include Frank Guzick, Edna Rowe, Ascher Silberstein, George W. Truett, and Urban Park. [1]
Harold W. Lang, Sr. Middle School and John B. Hood Middle School (partial [2] [3]) feed into Skyline [4].

Notable alumni

★ Brian Berkeley '74, co-designer of Apple Macintosh II computer

★ Brent Bourgeois '74, Christian rock musician and producer

★ "Cowboy Troy" Coleman '89, country music artist

★ Terry Crouch '77, NFL football player

★ Julie Dam '89, ''People'' magazine senior editor and "chick lit" author

★ Deryl Dodd '82, country music artist

★ Richard Dominguez '79, comic book artist

★ Kyle Gann '73, postclassical composer and music critic

★ Peri Gilpin '79, actress (best known as "Roz Doyle" on ''Frasier'')

★ Chris Holt '90, major league baseball player

★ Steve Holy '90, country music singer

★ Tim Jackson '85, NFL football player

★ Larry Johnson '87, NBA basketball star

★ Michael Johnson '86, world and Olympic champion sprinter

★ Dante Jones '83, NFL football player

★ Gentry Little '82, Texas HS Sportscaster of 2006, been sports casting since 1982 (radio)

★ Lanham Lyne '72, mayor of Wichita Falls, Texas

★ Calvin "C. J." Miles, Jr. '05, NBA basketball player

★ (Neal) Keith Miller '80, major league baseball player

★ Allen Rossum '94, NFL football player

★ Michael Weiss '76, jazz pianist and composer

★ Rodney "London" Williams '91, entertainment executive

★ Antonio Wilson '95, NFL football player

References

1. http://www.dallasisd.org/schools/realtor_new.cfm?id_con=171
2. http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/achievement/tx/1904