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Wilmer-Hutchins High School

January 01, 1970

Wilmer-Hutchins High School (nicknamed "The Hutch") is a public secondary school in Dallas, Texas (USA). A part of the Dallas Independent School District, Wilmer-Hutchins High was formerly part of the now defunct Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District.

Wilmer-Hutchins High School
Location
5520 Langdon Road

Dallas
,
Texas
75241

United States
Coordinates32°39′22″N 96°43′48″W / 32.656216°N 96.729933°W / 32.656216; -96.729933
Information
TypePublic high school
Established1928
School districtDallas Independent School District (2011-)
Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District (1928-2005)
Faculty56.75 (FTE)[1]
Grades6-12
Enrollment857 (2017-18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio15.10[1]
Color(s)Royal Blue, Columbia Blue, White
     
Team nameEagles
Websitewww.dallasisd.org/wilmerhutchinshs

Located at 5520 Langdon Road in far south Dallas, the 9-12 campus serves portions of Dallas, most of Hutchins, Wilmer, a small portion of Lancaster, as well as unincorporated areas in southeastern Dallas County.[2]

History edit

Wilmer-Hutchins High School was originally established in 1928, after four smaller school districts consolidated. A new $60,000 campus was built on Highway 75, midway between Wilmer and Hutchins. The building was expanded in the 1950s with the addition of a large gymnasium and an annex housing a junior high school.[citation needed]

The district's population grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s as hundreds of black families moved into new home developments located in the Dallas portion of the district. However, none of their children attended WHHS, as it was designated a "whites only" school. Black high school students were bused to Dallas' Lincoln High School until 1964, when Wilmer-Hutchins opened John F. Kennedy High School and Milton K. Curry Junior High School in the northern portion of the district.[citation needed]

The school district was forced by courts to integrate in 1968. Kennedy High School was closed after only four years (it was combined with its sister campus to form Kennedy-Curry Junior High School) and all high school students attended WHHS. White families began fleeing the district, and by 1972 the school's population was almost 100 percent black.

In 1983, a new campus was built on Langdon Road in Dallas, north of Hutchins and closer to most of the student body. The old campus became C.S. Winn Junior High School, which was later used as an elementary school before being abandoned in the early 2000s.[citation needed]

The school won the 1990 Class AAAA state football championship.[3]

From 1991 to 1996 the school had six different principals. In August 1995 the school district hired 60 new teachers for the school. By October 1996, 20 of those teachers hired remained.[4]

In 2004 the school closed since a rainstorm damaged the roof and the district was unable to get the problem fixed in a timely manner. Mark Dent of The Dallas Morning News wrote that WHISD's "inability to pay for repairs exposed its financial deficits and ineptitude."[5] In 2004 the WHISD school board voted to close Wilmer Hutchins High School. Students were moved January 2005.[6] In 2005 WHISD closed. The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) took over WHISD's boundary. Wilmer-Hutchins High School closed, and the entire senior class of Wilmer-Hutchins High School attended South Oak Cliff High School.[7] Ron Price, a member of the DISD board of trustees, preferred that the seniors attended Madison High School, but the WHISD seniors preferred South Oak Cliff since it was closer to their residences. In a telephone survey most seniors said that they would prefer staying together in one school rather than being divided across many schools based on the locations of their residences.[8] The other high school classes were divided between South Oak Cliff, David W. Carter High School, A. Maceo Smith High School, and Franklin D. Roosevelt High School.[9] The high school stayed closed for six years.[10] When DISD took over WHISD schools in 2005, DISD was unable to use bond funds to renovate Wilmer Hutchins High, and would have had to have used its own general operating budget to do so.[11]

DISD planned to convert the former Wilmer Hutchins campus into a magnet school. In 2008 police, acting on a tip, entered the closed school building and found plants which they believed to be marijuana plants in a classroom.[12]

At the time of the district's closure, the WHHS campus (then only 22 years old) was in extreme disrepair. DISD heavily remodeled the WHHS campus,[13] using funds from a $1.35 billion bond. The district completely renovated the auditorium, the career education building, and the interior.[14] The school district enclosed the plaza entrance and added air conditioning and geothermal heating systems.[15]

Six years after WHISD closed,[16] the school re-opened as a Dallas ISD school in 2011. It absorbed students from A. Maceo Smith, which became a technology magnet school in fall of 2011.[14] The majority of remaining students from Smith went to Wilmer-Hutchins.[5] In addition to taking territory from Smith,[2][17] WH High School also took territory from Carter,[18] Roosevelt,[19] and South Oak Cliff.[20]

In April 2012 Marion Brooks, the principal, said that children zoned to 22 other schools, including some schools not within DISD, are attending Wilmer-Hutchins Schools.[21]

Extracurricular activities edit

Football edit

Wilmer-Hutchins has made 20 football playoff appearances, winning the 1990 Class AAAA State Football Championship by defeating Austin Westlake 19-7 at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas on a bitterly cold day with temperatures in the teens and a sub-zero windchill.

Following the 2000 UIL realignment that moved Wilmer-Hutchins from Class AAAA to Class AAA, the Eagles were one of the dominant Class AAA teams in the state for five years until Wilmer-Hutchins ISD ceased operations.

When in 2011, a newly constructed Wilmer-Hutchins High School campus opened as part of the Dallas Independent School District, a majority of the football team members from A. Maceo Smith High School transferred to Wilmer-Hutchins and helped reestablish the Eagle football program.[5]

The first home game for the new Eagle football team was on August 26, 2011 against the Moisés E. Molina High School Jaguars.

Band edit

The Wilmer Hutchins Band is also known as the "Marching Music Machine".

School enrollment (1988-2005, 2019-present) edit

  • 1988-89 - 1,104 students
  • 1989-90 - 1,045 students
  • 1990-91 - 948 students
  • 1991-92 - 934 students
  • 1992-93 - 938 students
  • 1993-94 - 918 students
  • 1994-95 - 973 students
  • 1995-96 - 994 students
  • 1996-97 - 861 students
  • 1997-98 - 754 students
  • 1998-99 - 747 students
  • 1999-00 - 735 students
  • 2000-01 - 693 students
  • 2001-02 - 687 students
  • 2002-03 - 684 students
  • 2003-04 - 744 students
  • 2004-05 - 669 students

The ethnic composition of students in the 2019-2020 school year was 56% African American, 40% Hispanic, 2% White, and 2% others, including Asian and Multiracial. Of the 914 students, 675 (74%) were considered economically disadvantaged, 123 (14%) were considered special needs, 55 (6%) were enrolled in gifted and talented programs, and 238 (26%) were limited English proficiency.https://schools.texastribune.org/districts/dallas-isd/wilmer-hutchins-high-school/

Student performance edit

Wilmer-Hutchins High Schools's performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a state standardized test used from 1991 to 2003, was generally at or below state standards. The school received the rating of "acceptable" on six occasions (1993–94, 1995–96, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02, and 2002–03) and the state's worst rating of "low performing" four times (1994–95, 1996–97, 1998–99, and 1999-00).

A new standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) was introduced in 2003. WHHS received a rating of "academically acceptable" for the 2003-04 school year and "academically unacceptable" for the 2004-05 school year. This was due to lower than acceptable passing rates on the test in Reading ("All Students" category and 1 of 3 analyzed subgroups) and Mathematics ("All Students" and all 3 analyzed subgroups).[22]

Notable alumni edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "WILMER-HUTCHINS H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "2015-16 Wilmer-Hutchins High School Attendance Zone Grades 9-12." Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on June 3, 2016.
  3. ^ [Dave Campbell's Texas Football, 2008 edition, page 362]
  4. ^ Korosec, Thomas. "Last in the Class." Dallas Observer. Thursday October 3, 1996. p. 4. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c Dent, Mark. "Wilmer-Hutchins ready for first football season since 2004" (). The Dallas Morning News. August 15, 2011. Also as "Revival of the Hutch", August 16, 2011 - Available from Pressreader.com. Retrieved on October 18, 2018. Quotes: "Closed since 2005 after the district became insolvent, Wilmer-Hutchins has reopened, taking the bulk of A. Maceo Smith's student body." and "August 2004 started with a rainstorm that damaged the high school's antiquated roof so badly that classes couldn't start. The district's inability[...]" and "Two years ago, they started hearing the rumor of A. Maceo Smith's impending closure,[...]they knew the majority of their core would be back for this year playing the same game[...]call themselves the Eagles rather than the Falcons.[...]"
  6. ^ Benton, Joshua. "Wilmer-Hutchins board votes to close 3 schools; Police Department also gets tax as district tries to rein in costs 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine." The Dallas Morning News. December 14, 2004. 1B. Retrieved on August 22, 2009.
  7. ^ Gordon, Jennifer. "Wilmer -Hutchins seniors will go to South Oak Cliff High." The Dallas Morning News. Wednesday July 27, 2005. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  8. ^ Benton, Joshua. "W-H seniors get wish granted; DISD: Group to attend S. Oak Cliff; 25 schools to be youths’ new homes." The Dallas Morning News. July 28, 2005. Retrieved on July 18, 2011.
  9. ^ "." Dallas Independent School District. November 4, 2005. Retrieved on July 17, 2011.
  10. ^ Hobbs, Tawnell D. "Wilmer-Hutchins area students welcome much-improved neighborhood schools." The Dallas Morning News. August 22, 2011. Retrieved on September 6, 2011.
  11. ^ Schutze, Jim (21 July 2005). "Hope Chest". Media. Dallas Observer. ISSN 0732-0299. OCLC 7095491. from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  12. ^ Hobbs, Tawnell D. "Suspected pot farm found in boarded-up WH high school." The Dallas Morning News. Wednesday July 28, 2008. Retrieved on August 24, 2009.
  13. ^ "2008 Dallas ISD Bond New Schools and Additions." Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on July 28, 2010.
  14. ^ a b Hobbs, Tawnell D. "Dallas school district to open 3 Wilmer-Hutchins campuses, close 2 others." The Dallas Morning News. November 24, 2010. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  15. ^ "REBIRTH FOR WILMER AND HUTCHINS." Dallas Independent School District. December 2, 2010. Add 2. Retrieved on October 14, 2011.
  16. ^ Schechter, David. "DISD reopens an old school to much excitement." WFAA. Thursday August 18, 2011. Retrieved on September 6, 2011.
  17. ^ "Fall 2010 A. Maceo Smith High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer-Hutchins - Grades 9-12 2011-02-06 at the Wayback Machine." Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  18. ^ "Fall 2010 David W. Carter High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer-Hutchins - Grades 9-12 2011-02-06 at the Wayback Machine." Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  19. ^ "Fall 2010 Franklin D. Roosevelt High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer-Hutchins - Grades 9-12." Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  20. ^ "Fall 2010 South Oak Cliff High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer-Hutchins - Grades 9-12." Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
  21. ^ Smith, Morgan. "New Wilmer-Hutchins High School shows signs of rebirth." Texas Tribune. Monday April 9, 2012. Retrieved on September 19, 2012.
  22. ^ [1] - 2004-05 Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) report, Texas Education Agency.

Further reading edit

  • Izaguirre, Cynthia. "." WFAA. Updated Tuesday August 21, 2011. Article date: August 22, 2011.

External links edit

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Wilmer Hutchins High School nicknamed The Hutch is a public secondary school in Dallas Texas USA A part of the Dallas Independent School District Wilmer Hutchins High was formerly part of the now defunct Wilmer Hutchins Independent School District Wilmer Hutchins High SchoolLocation5520 Langdon RoadDallas Texas 75241United StatesCoordinates32 39 22 N 96 43 48 W 32 656216 N 96 729933 W 32 656216 96 729933InformationTypePublic high schoolEstablished1928School districtDallas Independent School District 2011 Wilmer Hutchins Independent School District 1928 2005 Faculty56 75 FTE 1 Grades6 12Enrollment857 2017 18 1 Student to teacher ratio15 10 1 Color s Royal Blue Columbia Blue White Team nameEaglesWebsitewww wbr dallasisd wbr org wbr wilmerhutchinshs Located at 5520 Langdon Road in far south Dallas the 9 12 campus serves portions of Dallas most of Hutchins Wilmer a small portion of Lancaster as well as unincorporated areas in southeastern Dallas County 2 Contents 1 History 2 Extracurricular activities 2 1 Football 2 2 Band 3 School enrollment 1988 2005 2019 present 4 Student performance 5 Notable alumni 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2011 Learn how and when to remove this message Wilmer Hutchins High School was originally established in 1928 after four smaller school districts consolidated A new 60 000 campus was built on Highway 75 midway between Wilmer and Hutchins The building was expanded in the 1950s with the addition of a large gymnasium and an annex housing a junior high school citation needed The district s population grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s as hundreds of black families moved into new home developments located in the Dallas portion of the district However none of their children attended WHHS as it was designated a whites only school Black high school students were bused to Dallas Lincoln High School until 1964 when Wilmer Hutchins opened John F Kennedy High School and Milton K Curry Junior High School in the northern portion of the district citation needed The school district was forced by courts to integrate in 1968 Kennedy High School was closed after only four years it was combined with its sister campus to form Kennedy Curry Junior High School and all high school students attended WHHS White families began fleeing the district and by 1972 the school s population was almost 100 percent black In 1983 a new campus was built on Langdon Road in Dallas north of Hutchins and closer to most of the student body The old campus became C S Winn Junior High School which was later used as an elementary school before being abandoned in the early 2000s citation needed The school won the 1990 Class AAAA state football championship 3 From 1991 to 1996 the school had six different principals In August 1995 the school district hired 60 new teachers for the school By October 1996 20 of those teachers hired remained 4 In 2004 the school closed since a rainstorm damaged the roof and the district was unable to get the problem fixed in a timely manner Mark Dent of The Dallas Morning News wrote that WHISD s inability to pay for repairs exposed its financial deficits and ineptitude 5 In 2004 the WHISD school board voted to close Wilmer Hutchins High School Students were moved January 2005 6 In 2005 WHISD closed The Dallas Independent School District DISD took over WHISD s boundary Wilmer Hutchins High School closed and the entire senior class of Wilmer Hutchins High School attended South Oak Cliff High School 7 Ron Price a member of the DISD board of trustees preferred that the seniors attended Madison High School but the WHISD seniors preferred South Oak Cliff since it was closer to their residences In a telephone survey most seniors said that they would prefer staying together in one school rather than being divided across many schools based on the locations of their residences 8 The other high school classes were divided between South Oak Cliff David W Carter High School A Maceo Smith High School and Franklin D Roosevelt High School 9 The high school stayed closed for six years 10 When DISD took over WHISD schools in 2005 DISD was unable to use bond funds to renovate Wilmer Hutchins High and would have had to have used its own general operating budget to do so 11 DISD planned to convert the former Wilmer Hutchins campus into a magnet school In 2008 police acting on a tip entered the closed school building and found plants which they believed to be marijuana plants in a classroom 12 At the time of the district s closure the WHHS campus then only 22 years old was in extreme disrepair DISD heavily remodeled the WHHS campus 13 using funds from a 1 35 billion bond The district completely renovated the auditorium the career education building and the interior 14 The school district enclosed the plaza entrance and added air conditioning and geothermal heating systems 15 Six years after WHISD closed 16 the school re opened as a Dallas ISD school in 2011 It absorbed students from A Maceo Smith which became a technology magnet school in fall of 2011 14 The majority of remaining students from Smith went to Wilmer Hutchins 5 In addition to taking territory from Smith 2 17 WH High School also took territory from Carter 18 Roosevelt 19 and South Oak Cliff 20 In April 2012 Marion Brooks the principal said that children zoned to 22 other schools including some schools not within DISD are attending Wilmer Hutchins Schools 21 Extracurricular activities editFootball edit This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2011 Learn how and when to remove this message Wilmer Hutchins has made 20 football playoff appearances winning the 1990 Class AAAA State Football Championship by defeating Austin Westlake 19 7 at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco Texas on a bitterly cold day with temperatures in the teens and a sub zero windchill Following the 2000 UIL realignment that moved Wilmer Hutchins from Class AAAA to Class AAA the Eagles were one of the dominant Class AAA teams in the state for five years until Wilmer Hutchins ISD ceased operations When in 2011 a newly constructed Wilmer Hutchins High School campus opened as part of the Dallas Independent School District a majority of the football team members from A Maceo Smith High School transferred to Wilmer Hutchins and helped reestablish the Eagle football program 5 The first home game for the new Eagle football team was on August 26 2011 against the Moises E Molina High School Jaguars Band edit The Wilmer Hutchins Band is also known as the Marching Music Machine School enrollment 1988 2005 2019 present edit1988 89 1 104 students 1989 90 1 045 students 1990 91 948 students 1991 92 934 students 1992 93 938 students 1993 94 918 students 1994 95 973 students 1995 96 994 students 1996 97 861 students 1997 98 754 students 1998 99 747 students 1999 00 735 students 2000 01 693 students 2001 02 687 students 2002 03 684 students 2003 04 744 students 2004 05 669 students The ethnic composition of students in the 2019 2020 school year was 56 African American 40 Hispanic 2 White and 2 others including Asian and Multiracial Of the 914 students 675 74 were considered economically disadvantaged 123 14 were considered special needs 55 6 were enrolled in gifted and talented programs and 238 26 were limited English proficiency https schools texastribune org districts dallas isd wilmer hutchins high school Student performance editWilmer Hutchins High Schools s performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills TAAS a state standardized test used from 1991 to 2003 was generally at or below state standards The school received the rating of acceptable on six occasions 1993 94 1995 96 1997 98 2000 01 2001 02 and 2002 03 and the state s worst rating of low performing four times 1994 95 1996 97 1998 99 and 1999 00 A new standardized test the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills TAKS was introduced in 2003 WHHS received a rating of academically acceptable for the 2003 04 school year and academically unacceptable for the 2004 05 school year This was due to lower than acceptable passing rates on the test in Reading All Students category and 1 of 3 analyzed subgroups and Mathematics All Students and all 3 analyzed subgroups 22 Notable alumni editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed July 2010 Learn how and when to remove this message Rickey Dixon is a former NFL football Safety Ricky Grace is a former NBL player Warren Jones is a former CFL football quarterback Keith LeMon Washington is a former NFL football defensive end Spud Webb is a retired NBA basketball point guard Royce West is a Democratic African American member of the Texas Senate References edit a b c WILMER HUTCHINS H S National Center for Education Statistics Retrieved March 25 2020 a b 2015 16 Wilmer Hutchins High School Attendance Zone Grades 9 12 Dallas Independent School District Retrieved on June 3 2016 Dave Campbell s Texas Football 2008 edition page 362 Korosec Thomas Last in the Class Dallas Observer Thursday October 3 1996 p 4 Retrieved on July 15 2013 a b c Dent Mark Wilmer Hutchins ready for first football season since 2004 Partial archive The Dallas Morning News August 15 2011 Also as Revival of the Hutch August 16 2011 Available from Pressreader com Retrieved on October 18 2018 Quotes Closed since 2005 after the district became insolvent Wilmer Hutchins has reopened taking the bulk of A Maceo Smith s student body and August 2004 started with a rainstorm that damaged the high school s antiquated roof so badly that classes couldn t start The district s inability and Two years ago they started hearing the rumor of A Maceo Smith s impending closure they knew the majority of their core would be back for this year playing the same game call themselves the Eagles rather than the Falcons Benton Joshua Wilmer Hutchins board votes to close 3 schools Police Department also gets tax as district tries to rein in costs Archived 2012 03 27 at the Wayback Machine The Dallas Morning News December 14 2004 1B Retrieved on August 22 2009 Gordon Jennifer Wilmer Hutchins seniors will go to South Oak Cliff High The Dallas Morning News Wednesday July 27 2005 Retrieved on July 15 2011 Benton Joshua W H seniors get wish granted DISD Group to attend S Oak Cliff 25 schools to be youths new homes The Dallas Morning News July 28 2005 Retrieved on July 18 2011 Assignment of Wilmer Hutchins Students to Dallas ISD Schools Dallas Independent School District November 4 2005 Retrieved on July 17 2011 Hobbs Tawnell D Wilmer Hutchins area students welcome much improved neighborhood schools The Dallas Morning News August 22 2011 Retrieved on September 6 2011 Schutze Jim 21 July 2005 Hope Chest Media Dallas Observer ISSN 0732 0299 OCLC 7095491 Archived from the original on 18 October 2018 Retrieved 11 February 2022 Hobbs Tawnell D Suspected pot farm found in boarded up WH high school The Dallas Morning News Wednesday July 28 2008 Retrieved on August 24 2009 2008 Dallas ISD Bond New Schools and Additions Dallas Independent School District Retrieved on July 28 2010 a b Hobbs Tawnell D Dallas school district to open 3 Wilmer Hutchins campuses close 2 others The Dallas Morning News November 24 2010 Retrieved on July 15 2011 REBIRTH FOR WILMER AND HUTCHINS Dallas Independent School District December 2 2010 Add 2 Retrieved on October 14 2011 Schechter David DISD reopens an old school to much excitement WFAA Thursday August 18 2011 Retrieved on September 6 2011 Fall 2010 A Maceo Smith High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer Hutchins Grades 9 12 Archived 2011 02 06 at the Wayback Machine Dallas Independent School District Retrieved on July 15 2011 Fall 2010 David W Carter High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer Hutchins Grades 9 12 Archived 2011 02 06 at the Wayback Machine Dallas Independent School District Retrieved on July 15 2011 Fall 2010 Franklin D Roosevelt High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer Hutchins Grades 9 12 Dallas Independent School District Retrieved on July 15 2011 Fall 2010 South Oak Cliff High School Attendance Zone with Wilmer Hutchins Grades 9 12 Dallas Independent School District Retrieved on July 15 2011 Smith Morgan New Wilmer Hutchins High School shows signs of rebirth Texas Tribune Monday April 9 2012 Retrieved on September 19 2012 1 2004 05 Academic Excellence Indicator System AEIS report Texas Education Agency Further reading editIzaguirre Cynthia Wilmer Hutchins H S principal talks about schools opening WFAA Updated Tuesday August 21 2011 Article date August 22 2011 External links edit nbsp Texas portal nbsp Schools portal Official website Wilmer Hutchins Athletics Archive of the Wilmer Hutchins ISD site Articles about the school at The Dallas Morning News Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Wilmer Hutchins High School amp oldid 1163827587, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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