Crane High School (Texas)

Crane High School
Address
809 West 8th Street
Crane, Texas 79731
United States
Coordinates 31°23′39″N 102°21′15″W / 31.39417°N 102.35417°W / 31.39417; -102.35417Coordinates: 31°23′39″N 102°21′15″W / 31.39417°N 102.35417°W / 31.39417; -102.35417
Information
School type Public high school
School district Crane Independent School District
Principal Tony Priest
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 290[1] (2014-2015)
Color(s)               
Purple, Gold & White
Athletics conference UIL Class AAA
Mascot Golden Cranes/Ladybirds
Newspaper Crane Chronicles
Website Crane High School
Designated 2016
Reference no. 18392

Crane High School is a public high school located in Crane, Texas (USA). It is part of the Crane Independent School District which covers all of Crane County and is classified as a 3A school by the UIL. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.[2]

The western author Paul Patterson taught for many years at Crane High School; one of his students was the western novelist Elmer Kelton, a native of Andrews County who was reared in Crane and graduated from Crane High School.

History

By May 2015 several news stories in Texas stated that there were about 20 cases of chlamydia at Crane High,[3] out of about 300 students. A spokesperson of the Texas Department of State Health Services stated that the whole county, not only the high school, only had three cases of chlamydia.[4] The state department also stated that in the year there were eight cases in the county as a whole and additional persons were undergoing testing. At the time Crane High used an abstinence only sex education program, and Justin Wm. Moyer of The Washington Post wrote "the problem has attracted attention to questions about the viability of abstinence education."[3]

The school board of Crane ISD was scheduled to adopt a new sex education curriculum on May 19, 2015.[5]

Athletics

The Crane Golden Cranes compete in the following sports:[6]

State Titles

Crane (UIL)

  • Boys Track - [7]
    • 2006(2A)
  • Girls Track - [8]
    • 2004(2A)
  • Volleyball - [9]
    • 1970(1A)^, 1974(1A)^, and 1975(2A)
  • Boys Tennis - [10]
    • 1962 (2A doubles) Jerry Box and John Hoestenback
    • 1968 (2A doubles) Glenn Fletcher and Jackie Box
    • 1971 (2A doubles) Don Adams and Jay Box
    • 1972 (2A doubles) Don Adams and Jay Box
    • 1972 (2A singles) John Johnson
    • 1973 (2A doubles) Don Adams and John Johnson
  • Girls Tennis [11]
    • 1973 (2A doubles) Terri Anderegg and Lynette Lewis

^ Was spring sport

Crane Bethune (PVIL)

  • Boys Basketball[12]
    • 1958(PVIL-B), 1961(PVIL-B), 1962(PVIL-B)

Academics

  • UIL Academic Meet Champions [13]
    • 1992(3A)
  • UIL Editorial Writing [14]
    • 1984(3A) Wesley Moore
  • UIL Feature Writing [15]
    • 1970(2A) Jill Rodgers
    • 1987(3A) Kristi Rey
  • UIL News Writing [16]
    • 1972(2A) Cheryl Fox
    • 1982(3A) Tim Lowe
    • 1986(3A) Kristi Rey
  • UIL Number Sense [17]
    • 1977(2A) David Bizzak
    • 1993(3A team) Scott Huddleston, Ricky Solis, Peter Leupold
  • UIL Persuasive Speaking [18]
    • 1967(2A) Thomas Morris
  • UIL Poetry Interpretation [19]
    • 1978(2A) Dee Dee Smartt
    • 1979(2A) Dee Dee Smartt
  • UIL Current Events [20]
    • 1992(3A) Keith Bullard
  • UIL Cross-Examination Debate [21]
    • 1992(3A) Dusty Boyd and Thad Norvell

Band

  • UIL Sweepstakes Champions [22]
    • 1986(3A), 1987(3A), 1989(3A)
  • UIL State Wind Ensemble Contest Champions [23]
    • 1988(3A), 1989(3A), 1990(3A)
  • TMEA Honor Band
    • 1991(3A) (Scott Mason, Director) [24]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ Nces.ed.gov
  2. ↑ "2015 Accountability Rating System" (PDF). Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-10.
  3. 1 2 Moyer, Justin Wm. "Texas high school with chlamydia outbreak has abstinence-only sex ed." Washington Post. May 7, 2015. Retrieved on November 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ White, Tyler. "State says only three chlamydia cases in entire county of West Texas high school" (Archive). San Antonio Express News. Friday May 8, 2015. Retrieved on November 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ "CDC: Chlamydia outbreak at Texas high school at “epidemic proportions”" (Archive). KFOR-TV. May 5, 2015. Retrieved on November 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ The Athletics Department
  7. ↑ UIL Boys Track Archives
  8. ↑ UIL Girls Track Archives Archived February 27, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ UIL Volleyball Archives Archived March 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ UIL Tennis Archives Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ UIL Tennis Archives Archived 2013-07-05 at Archive.is
  12. ↑ UIL Boys Basketball Archives
  13. ↑ UIL Academic Meet Champions Archived February 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  15. ↑ UIL Academic Archives Archived April 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  17. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
  18. ↑
  19. ↑
  20. ↑ UIL Academic Archives Archived May 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  21. ↑ UIL Academic Archives
  22. ↑ UIL Centennial Webpage Archived November 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  23. ↑ UIL Centennial Webpage Archived November 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  24. ↑ TMEA Archives Archived April 23, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
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