Jefferson High School (El Paso, Texas)

Jefferson High School is a public high school located in South-Central El Paso, Texas, United States. It is part of the El Paso Independent School District and it serves mainly the eastern section of South-Central El Paso, generally from the Rio Grande north to Interstate 10 west of Raynolds Street and the railroad tracks running just north of El Paso Drive east of Raynolds, and from Luna and San Marcial Streets east to the Ysleta Independent School District boundary in the vicinity of Ascarate Park.

Thomas Jefferson High School
Location
4700 Alameda Avenue
El Paso, Texas 79905

United States
Coordinates31.77045°N 106.4353°W / 31.77045; -106.4353
Information
TypePublic
Motto"Viva la Jeff"!!
Established1949 [1]
PrincipalArmando Gallegos
Staff81.24 (FTE)[2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,056 (2017–18)[2]
Student to teacher ratio13.00[2]
Color(s)Scarlet and silver   
MascotSilver Fox

Jefferson High School is fed mainly by Henderson Middle, into which the elementary schools in its feeder pattern, Clardy, Cooley and Zavala, graduate. A four-by-ten-block area north of Interstate 10 surrounding the historic Concordia Cemetery and bordered by Interstate 10, the Patriot Freeway (US 54), Tularosa Avenue, and Estrella Street is also zoned to Jefferson for the high-school grades, to Henderson for the middle-school grades (six to eight), and to an unknown Elementary school for prekindergarten to fifth grade. The attendance zone north of Tularosa Avenue is zoned to Armendariz Middle and Austin High.

Athletics

In March 2012 Jefferson had its first state and national championships.[3]

Notable alumni

References
  1. Date of when school was established Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "JEFFERSON H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  3. http://www.episd.org
  4. "Texas Longhorns Football, Basketball & UT Sports | Hookem.com". Hookem.com. Retrieved 2018-08-26.


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