History
Reagan was first established in 1904 as Houston Heights High School.
Houston Heights tied with Cleburne High School, 0-0, in the 1920 state championship football game, and was declared a co-champion with Cleburne. This is the first state football championship game recognized by Dave Campbell's Texas Football.
The Houston Heights High School, as it is known today, opened in 1904. In the fall of 1919 it was moved to the site that became Hamilton Junior High School because the original high school burned down over the summer. In 1925 the campus became Alexander Hamilton Junior High School. John H Reagan High School opened in 1925 and Hamilton was the junior high school. The campus was designed by John Staub and William Ward Watkin, who were designers of the original campus of Rice University. Reagan was first established as an all-white high school. Reagan was relieved by Waltrip High School when Waltrip opened in 1959.
Reagan was desegregated by 1970 and its student body started to become increasingly Hispanic; by 1988 Reagan was mostly Hispanic. In 1997 a portion of the Reagan boundary was rezoned to Waltrip.
In 2006 Reagan began to a renovation. Set to end in the summer of 2007, the renovations to Reagan included the building of a new cafeteria, a new gymnasium complex, an additional academic building, a new vocational building, and a library.
In 2009 Connie Berger, principal of Reagan High School, expected around 100 former private school students to enroll because the economic conditions persuaded families to send their children to public school instead of private school.
Around 2012, each year a total of 400 students transfer from Booker T. Washington High School to Reagan and Waltrip High School.
Read more about this topic: John H. Reagan High School (Houston, Texas)
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