Northbrook High School

Northbrook High School

Northbrook High School (NHS) is a high school located at #1 Raider Circle Houston, Texas. Northbrook is part of the Spring Branch Independent School District and serves grades 9 through 12.

History

Northbrook opened during the 1974-1975 school year to ease overcrowding at Spring Branch and Spring Woods High Schools. When a dwindling student population caused Spring Branch High School to close in 1985, Northbrook took in a number of Spring Branch students.

Northbrook was named a 1988-89 National Blue Ribbon School.^[1]

In 2005, Northbrook received 'Academically Acceptable' as the Texas Education Agency Accountability Rating.

Athletics

The Northbrook Raider boy's soccer program has enjoyed some success in the last decade under Coach Justin Wheeler. The Raiders have earned playoff appearances in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2007.^[2] They were district champions in 2000, 2004 and 2007. They were a regional quarterfinalist in 2003 and a Regional Champion and 5A State Semi-Finalist in 2004. With such a great competitive tradition in 5A competition the Raider Soccer team should fare well in the new 4A classification. The Northbrook boy's soccer team will compete in district 42AAAA this season along with Spring Woods, Stratford, Kingwood Park, Humble, Kingwood Summer Creek. The soccer district alignments are different from all other sports.

Northbrook has never been to the playoffs in Football in the school's entire history. The best football record was set during the 1981 season with a 7-3 record under then Head Coach Bob French who was the Offensive Coordinator for the '78 Texas 4A State Champion Stratford Spartans. The Raiders first Head Coach was Horace "Buzzy" Allert. He was head coach from the schools first season in '74 until the '79 football season. He was forced to retire due to knee problems he obtained during his playing days in the NFL and CFL. Coach Allert finished his career at Northbrook with a 28-29-3 record, with his best season record at NHS was a 6-3-1 in '75 & '76. After Coach Allert, Coach Bob French came in from Stratford two years after being part of the '78 Stratford Coaching Staff. Bob French finished his career at Northbrook with a 27-29-4 record, with his best season at NHS being the school record 7-3 in '81. After French came Coach Howell Ferguson, whom finished his career at NHS with a 20-38-1 record with his best seasons being in '88 with 5-4 record and '90 with a 5-5 record. Coach Hernandez followed after Ferguson and finished his career at NHS after only 3 seasons with a 11-19 record; his best season at NHS was a 6-4 record in '93. L.P. Jones took over at Northbrook in '95 and stayed until '98 finishing at NHS with an overall record of 10-30, with his best season being a 4-6 in '97. Pat Alvarado took over at Northbrook from '99-'05. Alvarado finished his career at NHS with a 9-61 record with his best two seasons being in '00 & '01 with a 3-7 record. After going 0-10 for two consecutive seasons in '04 and '05 the Northbrook Raiders led by new head coach Craig Cripps went 2-8 in '06 and improved in '07 with a 3-7 record and in '08 finished 1-7 after two games were cancelled due to hurricane Ike.Cripps finished his career at NHS 6-22 After coach Cripps' departure to district rival Stratford, the Raiders finished the '09 season 0-10 led by new head coach Ron Rogers. In 2010 the UIL announced that Northbrook along with district rivals, Spring WoodQs and Stratford, would all go down to class 4A. Northbrook was placed in district 17-4A along with Stratford, Spring Woods, Brenham, Montgomery, Waller, Magnolia, and Magnolia West. In their first season in 4A the Raiders finished the 2010 season 2-8. Ron Rogers is currently 2-18 at Northbrook.

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Northbrook High School ^[3]

• Buffalo Creek
• Cedar Brook
• Edgewood
• Hollibrook
• Ridgecrest
• Spring Shadows
• Housman (partial)
• Pine Shadows (partial)
• Terrace (partial)

The following middle schools feed into Northbrook High School ^[3]:

• Northbrook Middle School
• H. M. Landrum (partial)
• Spring Woods Middle School (partial)

Notes

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ www.uil.utexas.edu
3. ^ ^{a b} Spring Branch ISD feeder schools:

External links

• Northbrook High School
• NHS Alumni Facebook page
• Northbrook High School Alumni

Coordinates: 29°48′58″N 95°31′41″W / 29.8162°N 95.5280°W / 29.8162; -95.5280