Leander High School

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Leander High School
Location
3301 S. Bagdad Rd.
Leander, TX 78641
United States
Information
Type Public
Established 1899 (Current Location est.1984)
Principal Tiffany Spicer
Enrollment 2000+
Color(s)                Blue, White & Red
Mascot Leo the Lion, Leah the Lion
Website Leander High School website

Leander is a secondary school in Leander, Texas and part of the Leander Independent School District. It was established in 1899.

The school has a freshmen enrollment of 600 students and is accredited by the Texas Education Agency. Historically the school served a mainly rural population, but starting around the early 1990s the area experienced explosive growth due to expansion of high tech industries in the nearby Austin area[citation needed]. In 1999, the school became an International Baccalaureate school. As of 2014, the school principal is Mrs. Tiffany Spicer.

The school's mascots are Leo the Lion and Leah the Lioness. The school colors are blue, white, and red. Originally, the school's colors were simply blue and red, but this posed issues with home/visiting football games, where the opposing team would wear red as well as Leander. Because of this, Leander switched to simply blue and white. The red was reintroduced in the late '90s as an accent color.

Leander High is also recognized for its yearly integrated Fine Arts productions showcasing the talents of its students from the Band, Choir, and Theater Department in addition to the renowned Leander local dance teams, The Blue Belles, and the Leander Junior Varsity Dance Team, The Sapphires. The Robotics Team is known in the area for competing multiple times a year as well.

Clubs and Organizations

National Honor Society

The C.R. Miller Chapter of the National Honor Society (abbreviated NHS) at Leander High School was founded in 1971 and is the largest service organization on campus. In 2014, 136 students were in NHS. Efficiency has been a recent focus of the National Honor Society, and in October of 2013 NHS pioneered the "NHS Self-Reporting Service Hours Sheet", a Google Drive-based spreadsheet used to track student service hours. As of the end of the spring semester of 2014, NHS students produced 1736 hours worth of service toward both local and global communities. In 2014, the hour requirement was set to 10 hours for veteran inductees, and 8 for new inductees during their first semester in NHS. In 2012, membership required a GPA of 4.0. This rose to 4.3 in 2013 and is expected to rise to 4.5 by the fall semester of 2014.

Robotics

The Leander High School robotics team has won many different awards over the years. Students of any background may join, even if they have no knowledge of robotics. They learn valuable engineering skills.

Student Council

Spanish National Honor Society

To join the Spanish National Honor Society, a student Must be in Spanish III or above with at least a 90% average, and must have at least an 80% average in all their other classes.

Green Paws

Green Paws is the recycling club of Leander High School. It operates two "recycling carts" that students use to pick up recycled material from classrooms.

Schrödinger's Lion

Schrödinger's Lion is a group that focuses on an interest in science and science fiction. They started out as "The A-Team" which focused on Asperger's Syndrome and other forms of Autism, but it grew from that.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mystatesman.com/news/sports/pro-sports/leanders-michael-reed-is-on-the-move-in-brewers-ch/nnJP5/
  2. ↑ http://www.denverpost.com/subscribe/ci_9039598
  3. ↑ http://www.hillcountrynews.com/news/four_points/article_bea6ffac-cbe1-11df-91bc-001cc4c002e0.html

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