South Houston High School

South Houston High School, nicknamed SOHO, is a High School located in South Houston, Texas, United States.

South Houston, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Pasadena Independent School District. As of 2008 the principal is Steve Fullen.

South Houston serves the city of South Houston and portions of Houston (including Easthaven) and Pasadena.

History

South Houston High School opened in 1957 to relieve of Pasadena High School and produced its first class of graduates in 1959. Rapid growth in the area led to the opening of Sam Rayburn High School in 1964 and J. Frank Dobie High School in 1968, both of which siphoned South Houston students. The opening of Pasadena Memorial High School in 2003 relieved overcrowding at South Houston and Sam Rayburn [" [http://www.pasadenaisd.org/schools/high%20schools/memorial.htm MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL] ," "Pasadena Independent School District"] .
South Houston HS recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary. It is a school steeped in a proud history. One teacher wrote: "South Houston High School has existed on the corner of Shaver and Edgebrook for fifty years, but So Ho is much more than a physical building. I have worked at South Houston for thirty one of my thirty four years of teaching, and I would chose to work no where else. Our faculty is a family in good times like weddings, babies, and grandchildren and disasters like funerals, illnesses, fires, and hurricanes. Our students appreciate the staff and the help they receive from their teachers who stay after and come before for tutorials, who attend their games and performances to cheer them on, who write them letters of recommendations for scholarships. Our athletes strive for their personal best, even if we do not always have a winning team. Our student body earns money to purchase shoes for needy children each year, then pays for the buses to drive the elementary children to a local store to purchase the shoes and feeds the children lunch even though many of our own students are receiving help from the state. We took in over one hundred students after Katrina and Rita because that is the So Ho Way. We have graduated students who attended Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt, A&M, Texas, Rice, and the Air Force Academy. We have produced doctors, lawyers, city council persons, a state representative, a local television personality, nurses, dentists, workers in retail, pharmacists, business owners, engineers, musicians, dancers, and artists and any other job imaginable. We create responsible young men and women who continue to contribute to this community for years to come and even send back their own children to attend our institution. Because we are now considered an inner city school, in a lower income bracket neighborhood, we try even harder to foster dedicated, caring, and affable ladies and gentlemen. Our faculty is constantly complimented on the behavior of our students as they represent South Houston in the real world. We have been called the junk yard dogs, but we carry the name with pride because we thrive and survive in today’s world. We are a success, and I would teach at no other school. Trojans may have lost the battle of Troy, but we do not fail to prosper because the fight makes us stronger." ~ Mrs. Kathy Dittmar, SHHS English Teacher

ports

South Houston High School competes in football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, softball, Dance (Jannettes), baseball, track/field, cross country, cheerleading, golf, tennis and swimming. The school has an NJROTC unit. The school also has the District's only fencing team - lead by an Olympic caliber coach - that competes in competions across the USA.

Mascot

The mascot for South Houston High School is Hector the Trojan. The school colors are scarlet and gray. The yearbook is called the Palladium. The student newspaper is called The Torch.

Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into South Houston include:
* Fisher
* Freeman
* Jensen
* Jessup
* Walter Matthys
* Pearl Hall
* L.F. Smith
* South Houston
* Williams

Intermediate schools that feed into South Houston include Miller, Park View, Queens and South Houston.

Portions of the SHHS attendance boundary are served by Rick Schneider Middle School (Where Ilse goes!) (Grades 5-6).

References

External links

* [http://www.pasadenaisd.org/sohohs/default.htm South Houston High School]