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| Alief Elsik High School | |
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Main campus: 12601 High Star Drive Houston, TX 77072-1197 Ninth grade center: 6767 S. Dairy Ashford Houston, TX 77072 | |
| Coordinates | 29°42′36″N 95°36′11″W / 29.710°N 95.603°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | "Champions... Leaving a legacy!" |
| Established | 1975 |
| School district | Alief Independent School District |
| Principal | Andrew Bailey |
| Teaching staff | 244.78 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 4,118 (2023–2023)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.82[1] |
| Campus | City: Large |
| Color(s) | Columbia blue and white |
| Athletics | Football, basketball, track, tennis, golf, baseball, softball, soccer |
| Mascot | Rocky the Ram |
| Team name | Rams |
| Rival | Alief Hastings High School |
| Yearbook | Ramblings |
| Website | elsik |
 Elsik 9th Grade Center | |
Alief Elsik High School is a high school in the Alief region of Houston, Texas, United States.
Elsik is divided into two campuses: the main campus (12601 High Star in Houston, zip code 77072), and the Alief Elsik Ninth Grade Center (located at 6767 South Dairy Ashford, city of Houston, 77072), which serves ninth graders. Both campuses, which are in the Alief Independent School District, serve grades 9 through 12. The ninth grade campus is located in the International District although the main high school building is outside of it.[2]
The school's mascot is a ram, and the school's basketball and football teams are well known throughout Texas, as is the speech and debate team. The school is considered to have the best speech and debate team in all of Houston, placing in the top ten qualifiers in the state of Texas as well as sweepstakes winners in the NFL state tournament. The academic teams at Alief Elsik - Academic Decathlon, Star Academic Challenge, and various UIL organizations - participate in regional, state, and national competitions.[citation needed]
Alief Hastings High School sits adjacent to Elsik, and is considered to be its brother school. The two schools enjoy a friendly rivalry that heats up each year in the final football game when they play each other in a shared football stadium.
Alief's three traditional high schools, Elsik, Hastings, and the more recent Alief Taylor High School, now follow a seven period schedule. On Monday through Friday there are 50 minute classes, with an hour-and-thirty-minute lunch period (5th period). Wednesdays have 40 minutes of class time, which is used to give teachers a meeting day after school. This has been in effect since the 2007-2008 school year began.
Currently, Elsik has a night school, much like its fellow Alief high schools.
AP and Honors classes are graded on a 5.0 grading scale, while all other classes are graded on a 4.0 scale. Dual credit programs for US History are offered for juniors, and English, Sociology, Government, and Economics are also offered to seniors.
In the 2021–2022 school year, Elsik received a score of 68 out of 100 from the Texas Education Agency.
- ^ a b c "Search for Public Schools - ELSIK H S (480783000103)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ^ "International District with Campus Network, 2010". International District. Retrieved 2019-08-14.