Stephen F. Austin High School is a secondary school located in unincorporatedFort Bend County, Texas[4] and is named after Stephen F. Austin, who helped lead American settlement of Texas, and who is widely regarded as "The Father of Texas." The school happens to be only miles from Austin's original colony in present-day Fort Bend County.[citation needed]
When Travis High School opened, some of Austin's territory was given to Travis, and Austin took some territory from Kempner High School. In the territories, grades 9 and 10 were immediately zoned to the new high school,[9] and grades 11 to 12 continued to go to the previous high schools with a phaseout of one grade per year.[10]
In 2006 the Smithville area, employee housing of the Central Unit state prison (which housed minor dependents of prison employees) was rezoned from Kempner to Austin,[11] with grades 9-10 immediately zoned to Austin,[12] and grades 11-12 zoned to Kempner, with a phasing in by grade.[10] Smithville had since been rezoned back to Kempner.[5] The main portion of the Central Unit remained zoned to Austin until the unit's 2011 closure.[5][13][14]
Campus
Austin is located off of FM 1464, across from Shiloh Lake Estates and Grand Parkway Baptist Church. Surrounding the building are the Summerfield neighborhood to the south, the Safari Texas Ranch banquet on the north side, and the Pheasant Creek neighborhood across a ditch to the east.[15] Nearby are Oyster Creek Elementary School[16] and Macario Garcia Middle School,[17] which are wholly and partially zoned to the school, respectively.[18]
Neighborhoods served
Several different communities within unincorporated Fort Bend County are zoned to Austin, including Old Orchard, Orchard Lake Estates, Stratford Park Village, Summerfield, Pheasent Creek, Park Pointe, Park Pointe Commons, Oak Lake Estates, Village of Oak Lake, Hidden Lake Estates, Shiloh Lake Estates, and the subdivisions of Aliana south of West Airport, which are all zoned to Macario Garcia Middle School.[19] The eastern half of New Territory, which is within the City of Sugar Land,[7] is also zoned to Austin but through Sartartia Middle School instead.
The SFA Bulldog Band consists of over 150 student performers within its Marching Band, Concert Band, and Full Orchestra. The program encompasses a wide range of musical endeavors, including state and national competitions, as well as individual and ensemble events.
The school's orchestra has participated in the Midwest Clinic, a renowned music conference held annually.
Notable alumni
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^"Sugar Land Police Beat". City of Sugar Land. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved July 21, 2010. - Compare the address of the school to the map of Sugar Land to find that as of September 28, 2020 it is not within the Sugar Land city limits (this may change if the City of Sugar Land annexes the land housing the school).
