Alief Taylor High School

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Alief Taylor High School
"The exterior of Alief Taylor"
Location:	7555 Howell Sugar Land Drive, Harris County, Texas (Houston address)
Principal:	Manette Schaller
Zip Code:	77083
Contact #:	281-988-3500
Fax #:	281-561-7214
Mission Statement:	"Educating the hearts and minds of our students"
Colors:	Red & White with Dark Blue Trim
Mascot:	Lion

Alief Taylor High School is a High School located in Alief Independent School District in unincorporated Harris County, Texas.

Taylor covers grades 9-12 and has roughly 1,000 students in each grade level. Created in 2001, it is the latest High School of Alief. When it opened in the Fall of 2001, it only had Freshmen and Sophomores. Alief Taylor is one of two schools in Alief ISD that does not include a Ninth Grade Center. The other is Kerr High School.

Contents

1 Campus Students
2 Student Organizations
3 Feeder patterns
4 External links

Campus Students

Unlike Hastings or Elsik, Alief Taylor promotes all grade levels on the campus. The campus promotes grades 9-12, while Elsik and Hastings have their Ninth Grade Centers for 9th Graders, and the Main Campuses for 10-12th Graders.

Since its opening in 2001, Alief Taylor now holds almost 2,750 students, and just over 200 teachers and administrators. In all, over 3,000 individuals come to the school everyday. Taylor is much smaller in terms of population than both Elsik or Hastings, which each claim more than 5,000 students apiece.

Student Organizations

Alief Taylor hosts many successful organizations for its students. These organizations include:

Crimson Cadettes
The Crimson Cadettes are a precision dance team at Alief Taylor that performs at football games, basketball games, and pep rallies. The Cadettes compete at the regional and national levels. The Cadettes are akin to cheeleaders and dancers put together.

Speech and Debate (Forensics)
Alief Taylor works with the National Forensic League and has a well-known debate team. Every year, Alief Taylor continues to grow in both competition appearances, and standards. It was just recognized as holding the most talented students of any Houston High School, and one of the best in Texas.

Gents Club The Gents Club, which considers for membership only those aspirants whose personal, social and academic qualifications are acceptable to both Taylor High School and the organization, is designed for men who wish to excel in school.

Feeder patterns

All Alief ISD elementary, intermediate, and middle schools feed into Taylor as high school placement in Alief ISD is determined by a lottery: the lottery can result in either Elsik, Hastings, or Taylor. If a student was selected by lottery to attend a high school different from the high school of a relative currently attending or graduated from, the student may opt to transfer to that respective school. Students may also complete an application for the district's magnet high school, Kerr.

External links

[Alief Taylor High School]

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