Lamar High School (Houston)
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3325 Westheimer Road Houston, Texas 77098 United States |
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| Coordinates | 29°44′27″N 95°25′36″W / 29.74074°N 95.42655°WCoordinates: 29°44′27″N 95°25′36″W / 29.74074°N 95.42655°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto |
French: Va t'en aux étoiles (Reach for the Stars) |
| Established | 1936 |
| School district | Houston ISD |
| Principal | Dr. James McSwain |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,269 (2014-15) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Red, Blue , White |
| Athletics conference | UIL |
| Mascot | Texans |
| Newspaper | Lamar Life |
| Yearbook | Orenda |
| Communities served | Lamar zone: Parts of Houston, West University Place, most of Southside Place Wisdom zone w/ Lamar option: Parts of Houston, small sections of Hunters Creek Village and Piney Point Village |
| Website | Lamar's Home Page |
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Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States. Lamar High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Houston Independent School District.
Lamar, which is located in the Upper Kirby district, serves the Houston neighborhoods of River Oaks and Montrose, the incorporated city of West University Place, a portion of the city of Southside Place, and other Houston subdivisions.
The school has a business magnet program offering business management courses, as well as cooperation with the Houston business community to provide internships and university scholarships.
The school handles grades nine through twelve. Lamar High School has neighborhood, Advanced Placement, and IB Diploma Programme (International Baccalaureate) programs. Lamar has one of two high school level IB Diploma programs in the Houston Independent School District and, therefore, is one of HISD's seven IB World Schools. Lamar High School consistently has the greatest number of students who graduate with the IB Diploma in Texas. Lamar offers many International Baccalaureate Diploma classes, including five foreign languages: Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. In 1999 Lamar's IB program was the 14th largest such program in the country.
The school's mascot for its sports teams is the Lamar Texans.
In the 19th century Michael Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant who arrived in Houston in 1859, bought a 640-acre (2.6 km2) farm at an auction for $2.50 per acre. On his property Westheimer established a school for local children, including some of his relatives from Germany. The path to the school became "Westheimer's Road," now called Westheimer Road.
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