Colleyville Heritage High School

Colleyville Heritage High School
Address
5401 Heritage Avenue Colleyville, Texas 76034-5919 United States
Information
Type	Public
Motto	"A Community of Excellence"
Established	1996
School district	Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Principal	Conrad Streeter
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	2,261
Color(s)	Red & Black
Athletics conference	UIL Class AAAAA (5A)
Mascot	Panther
Website	www.gcisd-k12.org/Domain/chhs

Colleyville Heritage High School (CHHS) is a public secondary school in Colleyville, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The school is a part of the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District and serves freshmen through senior students in Colleyville and the surrounding areas. In 2011, the school was rated "Recognized" by the Texas Education Agency.

CHHS is located several miles west of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. In 2014, CHHS was ranked as the 38th best high school in Texas by US News, and was ranked as the 221st best high school in the country by Newsweek magazine. The school celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2006. Rising ninth graders come from Heritage Middle School, Grapevine Middle School, and Colleyville Middle School, depending on the students' address and their placement in the district feeder pattern. Although Colleyville Heritage is in Colleyville, its students have addresses in Colleyville, Grapevine, and Euless.

Colleyville Heritage High School, the second public high school in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, opened its doors on August 15, 1996, two years after the construction that began on March 1, 1994. The school's first principal, Dr. Marlin Stanberry, held his position for eight years (1996-2004). Other past principals include Dr. Robin Ryan (2004-2006), Becky Prentice (2006-2012), and Dr. Joe Harrington (2012-2013). The current principal, as of 2014, is Conrad Streeter.

Opening with approximately 1,300 enrolled students, Colleyville Heritage began as an 4A division school in accordance with UIL alignment policy, grew to a 5A school in 1999, and again to a 6A school in 2014 until it returned to 5A in the 2016-17 school year. The school has no direct feeder system; therefore, enrollment is based on students' home addresses and the middle school they attended.

Dr. Marlin Stanberry (1996-2004)

In a nationwide search for a leader to open Colleyville Heritage High School in 1996, Dr. Marlin Stanberry was selected to be the school's first principal, with responsibility for hire of a large portion of the teaching staff. In his initial remarks, Stanberry illustrated his vision to "build a cathedral for kids." Leadership was a staple of his time at Colleyville Heritage and his career as a whole. Having attended leadership courses locally and at Harvard University, he provided and taught similar courses at Colleyville Heritage and was an adjunct faculty member of Tarleton State University and the University of North Texas. He expressed his "drive and passion to share experience with other people" and his passion for "helping people learn more about themselves so that they may become more effective leaders," upon stepping down from principal in July 2004 to become executive director of leadership development for Grapevine-Colleyville schools. During his time at Colleyville Heritage, illustra a strict enforcement of the policies of the district and the Texas Education Code. For example, in May 2004, made clear by his stringent application of policies concerning the consumption of alcohol at school-sanctioned events. He imposed appropriate consequences for a group of students who had been caught doing so at the school prom, thus setting the precedent for administrative involvement and student ramifications in such issues in the future.

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