History
On March 6, 1995, Lewisville ISD broke ground on the first of two $32 million dollar high schools. Intended to relieve pressure off of Marcus and Lewisville High Schools, plans were set for a 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m2) campus, including two gymnasiums, a cafetorium, an auditorium, a band hall, a football field, tennis courts, and three parking lots. To accommodate additional students, an unplanned wing containing 45 additional classrooms was completed in time for the 2000–2001 school year. Two of the original planned parking lots, as well as an unplanned second cafeteria, were not completed until after the school opened.
108 staff members, led by principal Norman Reuther, taught the first student body of 986 freshman and sophomores. The school was recognized as exemplary in the charter year. In the school's second year, varsity sports were introduced and the student body grew to include grades nine through eleven. In 2000, Kansas State University threatened legal action against FMHS for an alleged copyright violation on the Jaguar logo. Rather than pay a licensing fee to KSU, as some schools in Texas were currently doing, principal Reuther ordered a re-design of the logo, to avoid the 8% merchandise commission. In August 2001, Reuther welcomed the school's first senior class; the student body grew to over 2,400 students.
Principal Norman Reuther left FMHS at the end of the 2003 school year; assistant principal Jack Clark subsequently took over the position of principal. Under his leadership the school's enrollment continued to grow (see graph, right). In Spring 2007, Clark and his wife and head counselor, Donna, announced their retirement. Paul Moon was selected to head the school. In January 2008, Moon announced that FMHS would undergo an expansion adding a third gymnasium and a second band room, to be completed in May 2009. In Spring 2008, LISD began random drug testing of all high school students in extracurricular and co-curricular groups; 75 weekly random students from FMHS were tested that Spring, and 48 students per week were tested for the 2008–09 school year. In May 2011, it was publicly announced that Paul Moon would retire and pass the leadership to Sonya Lail.
2007 FMHS graduates earned over ten million dollars in scholarships, exceeding $14,000 per person. The 2008 graduating class accumulated approximately $15,500,000 in scholarship money, exceeding an average of $22,000 per graduate.
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