Mansfield High School (Mansfield, Texas)

Mansfield High School is a public secondary school located at 3001 East Broad Street in Mansfield

Mansfield, Texas

Mansfield is a city in Ellis, Johnson, and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,368.In 2009, CNN/Money Magazine rated Mansfield as one of the "Best Places to Live" in the United States, ranking 24th out of the top 100 places.-History:The first...

, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Part of the Mansfield Independent School District

Mansfield Independent School District

Mansfield Independent School District is a school district headquartered in Mansfield, Texas, United States.MISD serves Mansfield and portions of the cities of Grand Prairie, Arlington, and Burleson. The district also extends into northeastern Johnson County....

, the school serves portions of Mansfield and Arlington.

Basic operation

Up until the 2007-2008 school year, the school was on an Accelerated Block Schedule. The students go to eight blocks total, four in the fall and four in the spring. Every semester they would receive four credits for those classes. It has just recently been changed to an "A/B Block Schedule." The chain of command in the school is also unique to the standard format of high schools. Although they have a principal, the school includes four associate principals (each assigned to a division of students alphabetically).

Band

2008 Achievements

-5th place at Carrollton Tournament of Champions

-5th place at Bands of America

Bands of America

Bands of America , a division of Music for All, Inc., is an organization that promotes and organizes marching band competitions for high school students. Competitions include both Regional and Super Regional Championships as well as the Grand National Championships...

Arlington Regional

-3rd place at Birdville Marching Festival

-1st Division at UIL

University Interscholastic League

The University Interscholastic League is an organization that creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, music, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the American state of Texas....

Region 5 Marching Contest

-6th place at UIL Area B Marching Contest (alternates to state marching contest)

2010 Achievements

-1st place at Carrollton Tournament Of Champions

-11th place Bands Of America Arlington Regional

-1st Division at UIL Region 5 Marching Contest

-6th place at UIL Area B Marching Contest (alternates to state marching contest)

The Mansfield Tiger Band is currently under the directorship of Mr. William Ludlow, Mr. Matthew Garrett, and Mr. David Dunbar. The band also has a student-run leadership team that assists the directors in marching fundamentals. The band plays in local parades and features a Tiger-Trek every year.

The MHS Varsity Winterguard won 3rd place in the Scholastic AA class at NTCA Championships in 2007. In 2008, they won 3rd again, this time in the Scholastic A class. The JV Winterguard also won 1st place at their Championships.

Drama department

2007-2008: Mansfield's UIL One-Act Play won the state title with their performance of scenes from "Epic Proportions." It was MISD's first state advancing One-Act.

Athletic department

Mansfield's mascot is the tiger and the school colors are black and gold. Their athletic programs include baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, cheerleading

Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

, cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, powerlifting

Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...

, soccer, softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, track & field, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, colorguard, and hockey

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

.

From 1999-2002, Mansfield's girl's basketball team became the first in the nation to win a state championship four times in a row at the highest level of competition. Mansfield ice hockey won the Texas State Championship in 2002-03.

Mansfield is particularly well known for its men's and women's golf teams. Both teams have played in the regional tournament every year since their creation, and the women's team have won district 17 times in a row. Mansfield's golf program has also produced 20 golfers who went on to play Division I NCAA golf.

Several professional athletes have graduated from Mansfield, including Erin Grant (class of 2002) who plays for the Houston Comets

Houston Comets

The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the best original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. The Comets were the first dynasty of the WNBA and...

, and currently holds the Big XII assist record. Cassie White (class of 2002) currently plays for the women's Olympic soccer team, Jeromey Clary

Jeromey Clary

Jeromey W. Clary is an American football offensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chargers in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft...

(class of 2002) currently plays for the San Diego Chargers

San Diego Chargers

The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

, Todd Mack (class of 1999) was a professional golfer, and Buddy Roberts (class of 2002) is a professional mixed martial arts fighter.

Mansfield School Desegregation Incident

In 1956, the Mansfield Independent School District

Mansfield Independent School District

was segregated and sent its black children to separate, run down facilities. This went on for many years until three students brought a suit with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...

. As a result of the federal court case, the school district was ordered to desegregate. The school board approved the measure and allowed Mansfield High School to desegregate. The mayor and police chief of the city did not approve of this measure though. When school started on August 30 of 1956, they joined over 300 whites in front of Mansfield High School. Their goal was to prevent the enrollment of the three black students. As part of the demonstration, 3 effigies were hanged.

Texas Governor Allan Shivers

Allan Shivers

Robert Allan Shivers was a Texas politician who led the conservative faction of the Texas Democratic Party during the turbulent 1940s and 1950s...

supported the protests, and even dispatched Texas Rangers to prevent integration. He then authorized the Mansfield Independent School District

Mansfield Independent School District

to send its black students to Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

. By doing this the school district had effectively ignored a federal court order for integration.

After the transfer of the black students to Fort Worth, the demonstrations soon ended and order was restored. These events may have influenced Orval Faubus

Orval Faubus

Orval Eugene Faubus was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of Little Rock public schools during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court by ordering the...

to pursue a similar course in Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

. Later that year, Texas passed more segregation laws that delayed integration even further. Facing the lack of federal funds, The Mansfield Independent School District

Mansfield Independent School District

quietly desegregated in 1965. The District was the last public school system to integrate in the United States of America.
See Mansfield School Desegregation Incident

Mansfield School Desegregation Incident

The Mansfield School Desegregation Incident is a 1956 event in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the United States.In 1956, the Mansfield Independent School District was segregated and sent its black children to separate, run down facilities. This went on for many years until three...

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools http://www.mansfieldisd.org/maps/Final%20_ElemZones07-08.pdf feed into Mansfield High School http://www.mansfieldisd.org/maps/07-08_HSAttendanceZones.pdf:

Boren
Brown (partial)
Nash (partial)
Reid
Tipps

The following intermediate schools http://www.mansfieldisd.org/maps/2006_intermediate_middle.pdf feed into Mansfield High School:

Cross Timbers (partial)
Icenhower (partial)
Shepard (partial)
Orr (partial)

The following middle schools feed http://www.mansfieldisd.org/maps/2006_intermediate_middle.pdf into Mansfield High School:

Coble (partial)
Howard (partial)
Wester (partial)
Worley (partial)

External links

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