Cypress Park High School
| Cypress Park High School | |
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7425 Westgreen Blvd Cypress, TX 77433 United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 2016 |
| School district | Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District |
| Principal | Chris Hecker |
| Grades | 9 |
| Enrollment | 545 (as of 2016) |
| Color(s) | Black & Gold |
| Athletics | UIL 6A |
| Athletics conference | University Interscholastic League |
| Team name | Tigers |
| Information | (346) 227-6000 |
| Website | Cypress Park High School website |
Cypress Park High School (nicknamed Cy Park) is a senior high school located in Cypress, an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas, in Greater Houston. It is a part of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) and is in its southwestern part.
CFISD purchased the site that now contains Cypress Park High in 2006. The district considered building a new high school there shortly after the purchase occurred, but it delayed its plans due to the Texas state government removing funding to the district and the Great Recession. The district resumed its plans due to an increase of students in the district.
Cy-Park is the district's 11th traditional high school to open; it was tentatively known as "HS No. 11" until the CFISD board approved the school's permanent name in August 2015. The opening relieved Cypress Lakes High School and Cypress Springs High School. It was funded by a 2007 school bond.
The school opened on August 22, 2016. In its first year it will have 9th grade students (freshmen) and add one more grade level each subsequent year until all four years are present. The district anticipates that the school will hold 3,000 students.
The school's first principal is Chris Hecker; he was hired in that role by the CFISD board in 2015, and he previously was the principal of CFISD's Dean Middle School in Houston. In its first school year it had 48 teachers.
The campus, designed by PBK Architects and built by Satterfield & Pontikes, has a three story classroom wing, a cafeteria building, a utility plant building, and an athletic and art building. The campus has a total of 592,000 square feet (55,000 m2) of space. The school uses a layout not used in previously-built CFISD high schools.
Cypress Park is located within a complex of CFISD schools, referred to as an "Educational Village", which will also have an elementary and middle school and cover a total of 179-acre (72 ha) of land; it will have a central food service area.
The projected 2016-2017 student body had 638 students, with 57% being Hispanic or Latino, 26% being Black, 10% being Anglo White, and 4% being Asian. The projected percentage of low income students was 74%.
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