WALTRIP HIGH SCHOOL

'Stephen Pool Waltrip High School' is a secondary school located at 1900 West 34th Street in Houston, Texas, United States, 77018.
Waltrip, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Waltrip has Houston ISD's Research and Technology magnet program.
Waltrip formerly had the IB Diploma Programme but discontinued it in 2005. [1]

Contents

History

School Song

Neighborhoods served by Waltrip

Student body

Athletics

School uniform

Feeder patterns

Notable alumni

External links

History

Waltrip High School opened in 1959 to serve many newly-developed post-World War II subdivisions. Waltrip relieved Reagan High School of many students when it opened. Waltrip was relieved by Scarborough Junior-Senior High School when that school opened in 1969. Waltrip was established as an all-White high school and remained all-White until 1970, when Houston ISD was forced to desegregate. Waltrip remained majority White until the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s the school was equally White, Black, and Hispanic. By the 2000s the school was majority Hispanic [2].
On October 2, 2006, a student and her mother assaulted a Houston Police Department Precinct 6 deputy over a truancy ticket. The student and her mother were arrested [3].

School Song

The Waltrip school song, ''Our Waltrip High", was written by alumni Jon Enloe with music by Joe Stuessy , both Class of 1961.
Waltrip High, we sing to thee,

Our loyalty we raise.

Strong and noble always,

These tributes we now praise.

Honor, faith and courage,

These we testify.

Thee we'll always honor,

Our Waltrip High

Neighborhoods served by Waltrip

Neighborhoods served by Waltrip include Garden Oaks, Timbergrove Manor, Shepherd Forest, Shepherd Park Plaza, Lazybrook, Shady Acres, most of Oak Forest, and a small portion of the Houston Heights.
A townhome complex called Cottage Grove is zoned to Waltrip.
At one point, all of the Houston Heights was zoned to Reagan. In 1997, a small portion was rezoned to Waltrip [4].

Student body

As of 2005, the student body [5] is predominantly Hispanic.
The makeup of the 1,819 students enrolled during the 2004-2005 school year was:

★ 63% Hispanic

★ 19% White American

★ 17% African-American

★ 1% Asian American

★ <1% Native American
67% of the students were on free or reduced lunch programs.

Athletics

The Athletics Department at Waltrip consists of the following teams:

★ Football

★ Basketball (Boys and Girls)

★ Baseball

★ Softball

★ Golf (Boys and Girls)

★ Track & Field (Boys and Girls)

★ Volleyball

★ Soccer (Boys and Girls)

★ Swimming (Boys and Girls)

School uniform

Waltrip students are not required to wear school uniforms but do enforce a dress code. This dress code consists of red, gray, or navy polo shirts and khaki or navy bottoms. [6]
The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with dress codes may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform [7]; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.

Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Waltrip [8] include:

★ Durham [9]

★ Oak Forest [10]

★ Sinclair [11]

★ Stevens [12]

★ Garden Oaks [13] (partial)

★ Helms [14] (partial)

★ Highland Heights [15] (partial)

★ Love [16] (partial)

★ Memorial [17] (partial)

★ Stevenson [18] (partial)
Middle schools that feed into Waltrip include:

★ Black [19] (partial)

★ Hamilton [20] (partial)

★ Hogg [21] (partial)

★ Williams [22] (partial)

Notable alumni

★ Shelley Duvall - Actress and producer

★ Debra Sue Maffett - Actress and producer, Miss America 1983

★ Van Malone - Professional American football player for the Detroit Lions

★ Keenan McCardell - Professional American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

★ Barbara Olson - Conservative commentator and September 11, 2001 attacks victim [23]

★ Patrick Swayze - Actor and dancer.

★ John H. Whitmire - A Texas senator

★ Mark Calaway - Professional Wrestler, WWE's The Undertaker

★ Toni Lawrence - Houston city council member

★ Elizabeth Peña and Jenny Ertman - murder victims (in 1993)

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★ The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the brutality of the crime [24] and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers [25] [26]

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★ Waltrip High School contains a memorial to the girls [27]

External links

★ Waltrip High School

★ Waltrip High School class of 1970 Yahoo group