Arlington Heights High School

Infobox High School
name = Arlington Heights High School


city = Fort Worth
state = TX
country = USA
colors = Blue and Gold
nickname = Yellow Jackets
website = [http://www.ahhsonline.net/ www.ahhsonline.net/]

Arlington Heights High School is a secondary school located in Fort Worth.

The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Fort Worth Independent School District.

Arlington Heights High School serves western portions of Fort Worth including the Como and Arlington Heights neighborhoods.

Arlington Heights High School was built in 1937 and hosted 715 students that year. Originally, students from this area attended Stripling High School in the 1920s, which is now a feeder middle school.

At that time, students at Heights were referred to as 'teasippers', a nickname taken from Texas A&M--Aggies used to call Longhorns teasippers because UT students were more likely to be the doctors and lawyers, while aggies were more likely to go into ranching and the like. Heights was wealthy and white up until the late 1960s, hosting many children of notable Fort Worthians such as the Belknaps and Dickeys, as well as Governor Connally's children. African American students attended Como High School, which no longer exists. Students at Heights referred to their school as 'the hill' because it sat up higher than the surrounding area at the time.

Arlington Heights has had a rich tradition throughout the years. By the 1950s, Allied Youth Club was the largest chapter in the world with a membership of over 800. This club was intended to teach the facts about alcohol and making wise decisions about its consumption. Each year, Heights students would participate in the annual AY Beauty Contest where the girls would make up the boys to look like women--hair, makeup, gowns--the works. These dressed up boys would then take other boys as their dates to the dance.

About

* The school mascot is the Yellow Jacket
* The school colors are blue and gold
* AHHS was a leading school in FWISD with 26,704 volunteer hours.

* AHHS has established the only ranch management program in FWISD with over 200 students participating.
* AHHS has established the only Navy JROTC program in FWISD.
* AHHS is host to one of the only Peace Clubs in the region
* AHHS won the 1996 Texas UIL Class AAAA baseball championship.
* AHHS won the 1948 Texas UIL Class CITY football championship.

The main building houses 74 classrooms, a library, band hall, auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria, workrooms and administrative offices. Outside buildings include a second gymnasium, field houses with concessions stands, and a weight room. The new wing opened in the fall of 2004 and houses six classrooms and a state of the art dance studio. The surrounding grounds are covered with tennis courts, baseball, softball, a unique multi-purpose athletic facility, soccer and football fields and an all-weather track which is open to public use. [http://schools.fortworthisd.net/ahhs/]

Heights Through Time

Notable Alumni

* Lee Harvey Oswald attended Heights for 2 weeks in 1957Fact|date=February 2008
* John Denver
* Betty Buckley
* Bill Paxton
* Pete Geren, United States Representative from Texas (1989-1997)
* Turner Gill
* Michael A. Andrews, United States Representative from Texas (1983-1995)
* Dflo

chool Organizations

* Debate Team
* Hispanic Youth Association
* National Honor Society
* The Yellow Jacket Yearbook
* The Jacket Journal Newspaper, established 1933
* Journalism
* Whiz Quiz
* Athletic Booster
* Dance Guild
* Inter-Act Club
* PTSA
* Arlington Heights Chess Association
* Band
* Orchestra
* UIL competitions

Feeder patterns

Elementary Schools

* Burton Hill
* North Hi Mount
* M.L. Phillips
* Ridglea Hills
* South Hi Mount
* I.M. Terrell
* Van Zandt-Guinn

Middle Schools

* William Monnig
* W.C. Stripling

External links

* [http://schools.fortworthisd.net/ahhs/ Arlington Heights High School]