Southwest High School (Fort Worth, Texas)
| Southwest High School | |
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4100 Alta Mesa Blvd. , Fort Worth, TX 76133 United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°39′07″N 97°22′53″W / 32.65207°N 97.38135°WCoordinates: 32°39′07″N 97°22′53″W / 32.65207°N 97.38135°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | To provide supportive, academic, and cultural opportunities that result in creative, disciplined, and productive life-long learners. |
| Established | 1967 |
| School district | Fort Worth Independent School District |
| Principal | John Engel |
| Faculty | 84 (2015-2016) |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,288 (2014-2015 PEIMS TEA enrollment report figures) |
| Color(s) | Cardinal red, royal blue, and white |
| Mascot | The Raider |
| Website | Southwest Homepage |
Southwest High School is a public high school in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is one of fourteen traditional high schools in the Fort Worth Independent School District. The school has an enrollment of about 1,288 wiith a teaching staff of about 85. Southwest is classified as a 5A school in the state of Texas.
Southwest High School was established in the fall of 1967 and first opened in January 1968 when the student body transferred from temporary facilities at Paschal High School. Since 1968, thousands of changes have taken place in the school, city, state, country, and world. At the time it first opened its doors Southwest was in a new neighborhood adjacent to ranch land, serving a 20-year-old neighborhood that bordered its back fence. The student population reached the 2,000 mark within a year, peaking at approximately 2,400. Today Southwest is just one of the thirteen Fort Worth ISD high schools in a city of more than 700,000 residents. Over the past decades Southwest High School has integrated, expanded, had hundreds of teachers, and thousands of students. Southwest has consistently led the district in all aspects of academic life over the past thirty-six years even though no data of any kind is cited to support this wild claim.
The school mascot was originally a Confederate Rebel and was later changed to the Raider because of complaints by community leaders and to better represent the diverse student body. The school's colors are cardinal red, royal blue, and white.
In recent years, Southwest Raider football, led by Coach Lanny Trammell, has gone undefeated in district games and advanced to playoff games. In the 2006-07 school year, the football team lost to the Stephenville Yellow Jackets in the first round of playoffs and in the 2007-08 year, the team lost to the Aledo Bearcats. The 2010 football season led to the Raiders' first playoff win in school history. The Raiders played Springtown High School in the first round and won by scoring a touchdown in the final seconds of the game 38-37. In 2012 the Raiders, still under head coach Lanny Trammell, advanced two rounds beating the Everman Bulldogs on a touchdown pass thrown by WR Robert "Robbie" Rhodes then advancing to meet Rider in Wichita Falls in a hard fought game ending with Rider advancing.
In 2007, the Southwest Raider basketball team, coached by Scott Gray, put Southwest on the state map. The team advanced to the state championship game against South Oak Cliff High School, but lost by a score of 80-77.
The Raiders baseball team has advanced to the playoffs for the last 20 consecutive years. In 2009, varsity baseball coach Michael Thompson earned his 400th win as Southwest High's baseball coach. Coach Michael Thompson retired after the 2010 season with a winning record, the Raiders beat the Crowley Eagles outscoring them almost 50 to 5 in the series. The Raiders went on the play the Rider Raiders and forced them to the third game of the series but couldn't pull through in the end. In 2011, the Raiders brought in new coach Frankie Gasca, a Southwest alumnus of the class of 1998. The Raiders played the Birdville Hawks for the first round of state playoffs and beat them in the last inning of the game. The Raiders played the Waco Midway Panthers, the second-ranked team in the state, but dropped the first two games of the series.
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