Alief Elsik High School
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| Main campus: 12601 High Star Drive Houston, TX 77072-1197 Ninth grade center: 6767 S. Dairy Ashford Houston, TX 77072 |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | "Champions... Leaving a legacy!" |
| Established | 1975 |
| School district | Alief Independent School District |
| Principal | Tina Elzy |
| Teaching staff | 239 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 6,000 (2011-12) |
| Number of students | 4,130 (2011-12) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Columbia Blue & White |
| Athletics | Football, Basketball, Track, Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Softball |
| Mascot | Rocky the Ram |
| Team name | Rams |
| Rival | Alief Hastings High School |
| Yearbook | Ramblings |
| Website | Elsik High School |
 Elsik 9th Grade Center |
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Alief Elsik High School is a high school in the Alief region of Houston, Texas.
Elsik is divided into two campuses: the main campus (12601 High Star in Houston, zip code 77072), and the Alief Elsik Ninth Grade Center (located at 6767 South Dairy Ashford, city of Houston, 77072), which serves ninth graders. Both campuses, which are in the Alief Independent School District, serve grades 9 through 12. The school's mascot is a Ram, and the school's basketball and football teams are well known throughout Texas, as is the speech and debate team. The school is considered to have the best speech and debate team in all of Houston. Placing in the top ten qualifiers in the state of Texas as well as sweepstakes winners in the NFL state tournament. The academic teams at Alief Elsik - Academic Decathlon, Star Academic Challenge, and various UIL organizations - do participate in regional, state, and national competitions. Alief Hastings High School is another high school that sits adjacent to Elsik, and is considered to be its sister school. The two schools enjoy a friendly rivalry that heats up each year in the final football game when they play each other in a shared football stadium.
Alief's three traditional high schools, which includes Elsik, Hastings, and the more recent Alief Taylor High School now follow a 7 period schedule. On Monday through Friday there are 50 minute classes, with an hour-and-thirty-minute lunch period (5th period). The one day with 40 minutes of class time is Wednesday, which is used to give teachers a meeting day after school. This has been in effect since the 2007-2008 school year began. Currently, Elsik has a night school, much like its fellow Alief high schools.
AP and Honors classes are graded on a 5.0 grading scale, while all other classes are graded on a 4.0 scale. Dual credit programs for US History are offered for juniors, and English, Sociology, Government, and Economics are also offered to seniors.
In 2012 Elsik was rated "Academically Acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
Elsik opened in 1975 on the same campus as Hastings High School as what is now known as "Hastings South". The first year Elsik only held Freshman, and added classes every year thereafter, until the school had all four grades, with the first freshman class in 1975-76 graduating in 1979. While the two schools were divided by a large courtyard and bus run, there was frequent contact with students from the other campus, which made for very interesting times during sporting events between the two schools. Certain classes were shared by both Hastings and Elsik, such as Machine Shop classes, Art classes, and Accelerated Learning or "Honor Roll" classes.
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