Sterling High School (Houston)
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11625 Martindale Road Houston, Texas 77048 United States |
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| Coordinates | 29°38′11″N 95°19′22″W / 29.636255°N 95.322758°WCoordinates: 29°38′11″N 95°19′22″W / 29.636255°N 95.322758°W |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1965 |
| Principal | Justin Fuentes |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1133 (2015) |
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| Team name | Raiders |
| Website | Official Website |
Ross Shaw Sterling High School, also known as Sterling Aviation High School, is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas. Sterling, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The school was named after Ross S. Sterling. Sterling has Houston ISD's magnet program for Aviation Sciences.
Ross S. Sterling High School opened as a junior/senior high school (grades 7–12) in the fall of 1965.
This unique, three-building campus featured designed-in air-conditioning which was a new, yet essential, feature for HISD facilities. The Sterling campus had a mirror twin sister campus, James Madison Jr./Senior High School, that opened at the same time as Sterling.
The first principal of Sterling was A.P. (Pete) Dowling, an experienced educator and administrator with HISD.
During the 1967 school year, local radio station KILT staged an enormous promotion contest between area high schools. The contest was simple: Each school had to submit as many individual paper entries as possible with the name of the high school on each sheet. The winning school would be the one that submitted the most pounds of paper. The contest created a lot of non-value added time in many classrooms as reams of copy paper and thousands of boxes of computer punch cards were submitted. Ross Sterling was the winner. The primary prize for winning was a school dance sponsored by KILT featuring a regional band named Southwest F.O.B.
Sterling became a senior high school (grades 10–12) exclusively with the 1968–1969 school year. The Blue Raider football team made its first playoff appearance during the 1970 season when it emerged as district champion. The Raiders then defeated Robert E. Lee in bid-district play but were then victims to the Sam Houston High juggernaut in the area round of the playoffs.
Sterling's Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) Detachment was first established on-campus in May 1970. Graduating NJROTC Cadets incur no military service obligation, however many have chosen to serve in every branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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