Sugar Land High School Explained

Sugar Land High School was a senior high school in Sugar Land, Texas and a part of the Sugar Land Independent School District. Children who were white and of groups not black attended this school.

Circa the 1940s many alumni of Sugar Land High attended colleges and universities. The Kempner family arranged to have the campus built.^[1]

In 1959 Sugar Land High merged with Missouri City High School to form Dulles High School. This occurred as Sugar Land ISD and Missouri City Independent School District merged, becoming the Fort Bend Independent School District.^[2]

Lakeview Elementary School is on the former site of Sugar Land High.^[3]

Athletics

In 1952 and 1953 the baseball relay team won state championships.^[4]

In 1958 the girls' basketball team made it to the Texas State Tournament. The city government stated in the book Sugar Land that in the late 1950s its girls' basketball programs were a "raging success".^[5]

Notes and References

1. City of Sugar Land. Sugar Land. Arcadia Publishing, 2010., 9780738578804. p. 76. "The Kempner family[...] Not only did they build a unique, state-of-the-art campus,[...]A large percentage of Sugar Land High School graduates attended college."
2. Solomon, Jerome. "FOOTBALL 1997/HIGH SCHOOLS/FORT BEND BONANZA/Phillips, Dulles in hunt to add to town's memories." Houston Chronicle. Thursday August 28, 1997. Special 33. Retrieved on December 31, 2011.
3. City of Sugar Land. Sugar Land. Arcadia Publishing, 2010., 9780738578804. p. 80.
4. Santillán, Richard A., Joseph Thompson, Mikaela Selley, William Lange, and Gregory Garrett. Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing, July 3, 2017., 9781467126359. p. 27.
5. City of Sugar Land. Sugar Land. Arcadia Publishing, 2010., 9780738578804 p. 81.