Memorial High School (Hedwig Village, Texas)
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Memorial High School
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935 Echo Lane Hedwig Village, Texas 77024 United States |
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| Coordinates | 29°46′50″N 95°31′22″W / 29.78061°N 95.52278°WCoordinates: 29°46′50″N 95°31′22″W / 29.78061°N 95.52278°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Principal | Lisa Weir, Professor Toby Day |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Enrollment | 2,265 |
| Color(s) | Red and white |
| Mascot | Mustang |
| Nickname | Memorial, Big Red |
| Newspaper | The Anvil |
| Yearbook | The Reata |
| Website | mhs |
Memorial High School (MHS) is a secondary school located at 935 Echo Lane in Hedwig Village, Texas, United States, in Greater Houston.
Memorial serves students in portions of the Memorial and Spring Branch regions of Houston and several enclaves within the portions. Memorial is part of the Spring Branch Independent School District (SBISD) and serves grades 9 through 12. As of 2005, the district was granted a $500 million education grant, $150 million of which belongs to Memorial High School.
Memorial Senior High School opened in 1962 to relieve overcrowding at Spring Branch High School. Memorial was the second high school to open in SBISD. At the time, students living north of Old Katy Road attended Spring Branch and students living south of Old Katy Road attended Memorial. This arrangement lasted until Spring Woods High School opened in 1964.
The design of the school was classic early 1960s in the South, with a large, open campus. Each classroom building opened into an outside breezeway, to maximize air flow as the school did not have air conditioning.
When Memorial first opened, the area surrounding the school was largely forest and rice fields, but it rapidly grew as new subdivisions were built, and by the mid-1960s, Memorial's enrollment exceeded 3,000 students, a number much larger than the school was meant to hold. This problem was resolved with the opening of Westchester Senior High School in 1967, and later Stratford Senior High School in 1974.
At the time, Memorial's main rivals were the Spring Branch Bears and Westchester Wildcats. However, by the mid-1980s, the enrollment of nearly every school across the district had dropped precariously, and it was decided that Westchester and Spring Branch High Schools would be closed. Memorial remained open, and took in students from both Westchester and Spring Branch High Schools.
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