Clear Lake High School (Houston)


Clear Lake High School is a public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States.
The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Clear Creek Independent School District. The school serves portions of Houston and Pasadena. It previously served the cities of Seabrook, El Lago, and Taylor Lake Village, and the El Jardin del Mar portion of Pasadena, until Clear Falls High School in League City opened. Its colors are red, blue, and white. Its mascot and symbol is the Falcon.

History

Clear Lake High School opened in 1972 to alleviate overcrowding at what was then the district's only high school, Clear Creek High School with the first class graduating in 1973. The current campus has a ninth grade center — formerly Space Center Intermediate School — field house, and athletic fields, all across the street from the University of Houston–Clear Lake.
The ninth grade annex was first added to the Clear Lake High School campus in 1978. Later, the 9th grade center was used as Space Center Intermediate School but returned to a 9th grade center when SCIS moved to a newly built campus for the 1999-2000 school year.
For the 1986-87 school year Clear Lake High School became a National Blue Ribbon School.
Clear Lake High School is currently the largest school in Texas with a Texas Education Agency ranking of Recognized.
The school discovered large-scale cheating in an English IV final examination in 2012. The school invalidated all English IV final exam results, allowing students who did not cheat to have a final grade without the final or to take the final again. The students who cheated received scores of zero.

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 2,396 students enrolled in 2015-2016 was:
19.9% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch.

Campus

In May 2013 voters in CCISD approved a $367 million district bond. According to the referendum, Clear Lake High will get new campus buildings, valued at $98.6 million total. PBK Architects designed the new additions, a two-story classroom building and a fine arts center. Construction is scheduled to begin in April 2014.
Construction is scheduled to finish January 2018.
A soccer ball carried aboard the fatal final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger by astronaut Ellison Onizuka, whose children attended Clear Lake High School and who coached the soccer team, is displayed in the school.

Extracurricular activities

In 2005 the school had 525 students enrolled in its music classes. That year, the school was named a Grammy Signature School. Its music department received a grant for $2,000.

Notable alumni