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Aledo High School
Aledo Independent School District, TX
9-12
301
#1 Best High School Sports in Texas
Alum: I once saw a map of Fort Worth in a book called "Judgemental Maps" and on the map Aledo was labeled "Parents who think their kids are too good for Fort Worth schools". I laughed at how accurate this was! I was my third high School I went to and the only word to describe this school is extravagant! The academics were generally very productive and enjoyable as well as the teachers. The athletics were top ranking in almost every sport although I never involved myself with any because they did not offer my sport (Lacrosse). My only complaint is the diversity, generally all of the students were well educated, white upper middle class who were very sheltered. Although even with this fact, I found it very easy to make friends and everyone was very accepting!
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Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas
Private School
Dallas, TX
9-12
57
#2 Best High School Sports in Texas
Junior: Words cannot describe how thankful I am for my Jesuit education. The personal, spiritual, and intellectual growth that has been fostered over the past two years has shaped me into the person I am today. Jesuit is unique in its ability to foster a brotherhood between students; my classmates and I have built relationships that I am confident will last a lifetime. Even with a maxed schedule, I look forward to going to school every day. The academics are as difficult as you choose them to be, but the administration does a great job allowing the student to try new things and challenge themselves academically. Jesuit offers so many extracurriculars, and if you want to pursue something beyond what Jesuit offers, they encourage students to start clubs based on their interests. I could go on for days, but I honestly couldn't be happier with where I go to school.
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Trinity High School
Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District, TX
10-12
601
#3 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: My experience with trinity high school has been quite thoughtful. Trinity high school has let me try out many academic studies and throughout all of the years I have been attending, I have got to say, it was really fun. Diversity is a major factor that we endorse, we are all from different areas of the world and for trinity to be welcoming to everyone is warm. Our mascot, the "Trinity Trojan", is what we call ourselves because we don't let let small battles take us down we overcome them and go big!
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The Emery/Weiner School
Private School
Houston, TX
6-12
45
Parent: I have two children at EWS. One is a successful honors student into athletics and tech. The other is a successful at level student into the arts and friends. They are equally amazing and completely different. Emery is the kind of school that strives to get to know your kids as students, participants and leaders, and tailors the experience for each one. The teachers challenge the kids to excel academically, manage socially and develop their commitment to community. I can't imagine a better place to take my kids every day. Thank you, Emery!!!
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Cypress Ranch High School
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, TX
9-12
602
#4 Best High School Sports in Texas
Sophomore: Contrary to what people say, I think that Cypress Ranch High School is very liberal and accepting of others. Everyone is mainly kind and respectful of one other. The teachers there are experienced and always willing to put in the effort in order to give everyone the best learning experience possible. On top of that, the school also has a great athletics department that is open to everyone. I’m proud to be a member of the Cypress Ranch tennis team. Go Mustangs!
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Cedar Park High School
Leander Independent School District, TX
9-12
479
#5 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: This school provided good courses and ample AP opportunities. I personally have been involved with the band program here, which won two state championships while I was attending and got 5th place in BOA Grand Nationals for marching band. The football team has also won a couple of championships, as well as our cheer-leading team and swim. Our school isn't super racially diverse, but we do have a large population of Asian heritage people. It is a friendly campus with many opportunities to get involved, through many honor societies to fun clubs like Harry Potter club, or Ping pong club. Academically, it isn't very rigorous and doesn't have IB programs, but will provide community college duel credits and many AP credits.
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Cy-Fair High School
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, TX
9-12
612
#6 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Cy-Fair is a wonderful highschool in which I have been lucky and blessed enough to spend 4 great years at. Providing students with a welcoming environment and interesting classes to take, the school truly does an outstanding job at combining education and fun. Additionally, the immense school spirit that each and every student has just shows how much everyone knows and loves Cy-Fair Highschool. Bobcat fight never dies!
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Del Valle High School
Ysleta Independent School District, TX
9-12
253
#7 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: My favorite and most fondest memories of Del Valle are probably all the people I have gotten to know and encounter. Being able to be apart of clubs with such great people makes any experience fun and enjoyable. After being home schooled my freshman year and then transferring to DV my sophomore year, i was nervous but i loved how easy the school was to navigate and how nice the teachers and students were. School can be challenging sometimes, yeah, but there is no other school i would have rather experienced such challenges than here at Del Valle.
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The Woodlands High School
Conroe Independent School District, TX
9-12
714
#8 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: The Woodlands High School is a fantastic place to go to school. We recently won the Lone Star Cup, meaning that we have superior academics and athletics. Almost all of the teachers here care a lot about what they are teaching and their students themselves. Although it is a big school with over 1,000 students in each class, there are still plenty of resources for everyone to be successful. Extracurricular activities are good here too. There are opportunities to get leadership roles with different clubs such as student council or a foreign language club etc. The point is, there are opportunities for every student to be successful and to also have fun while going to school here. Go Highlanders!
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Katy High School
Katy Independent School District, TX
9-12
447
#9 Best High School Sports in Texas
Niche User: More effort in other extracurriculars besides football, needs slight remodeling, which is soon to be completed. The faculty is friendly and willing to help those who ask. Good memories reside at this school, Go Tigers!
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Manvel High School
Alvin Independent School District, TX
PK, K-12
548
#10 Best High School Sports in Texas
High School Senior: I love my school. Manvel creates this unique vibe that fills every students soul. Yeah I know, sounds cheesy but it really does feel like a family. In everything that we do, we are supported. Students, teachers, counselors, janitors, and coaches are all apart of the reason why we keep going everyday. We like to succeed together as a whole. Football games are my absolute favorite. Its like we all are on the field! Everyone is cheering for everyone. Everyone is considered family. When one cry, we all cry. When one laugh, we all laugh. When one is successful, in spirit, we're all successful. There's nothing that can compare to the pride that my school has.
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Byron P. Steele II High School
Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District, TX
9-12
458
#11 Best High School Sports in Texas
Junior: Steele High School is an AMAZING school! The faculty are very organized, helpful, and they even have office hours after school to help students that need extra help. The school is beautiful. The sports program is outstanding, the coaching faculty is encouraging to their athletes. I would strongly recommend the school to anyone.
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Tatum High School
Tatum Independent School District, TX
9-12
93
#12 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Although many bad, yet uncontrollable, things happened at Tatum Schools does mean it is a bad school. Tatum is a small town so everybody knows everybody, which I like because sometimes knowing people in high places often helps you succeed in life. Tatum has Chromebooks and projectors in every room, as well as tons of books in the library. Often as a senior many teachers will tell you that you are not prepared for college because of the way we are "babied" through high school, and most of them are right. Students would be able to turn in work weeks late and receive the same credit as the student who turned it in on time; however, that is now changed. You have three days to turn in the assignment or you will simply get a zero. This has helped to better prepare us, but there are still a few adjustments that can be made to ensure that seniors know what to expect when they go off to college in the fall.
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Coppell High School
Coppell Independent School District, TX
9-12
664
#13 Best High School Sports in Texas
Alum: Coppell High School provides students a top-notch high school education and offers a number of AP and IB courses to help them earn college credit. Generally teachers are more than willing to assist students who have questions or need help on material covered in class. The student body is very diverse and there are a considerable number of international students.

There are pros and cons to attending a school of this size, but thankfully the new freshman center has helped to reduce overcrowding. Unfortunately, it is easy to feel a bit disconnected from happenings on campus, especially club meetings. Those wishing to participate in extracurricular sports teams must take the sport as a class period, so it wont simply be an after school activity as in some other high schools. On the bright side, the school's large size certainly helps to prepare students for life on a university campus.
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Midway High School
Midway Independent School District, TX
9-12
431
#14 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Two years ago, when I moved from the Ukraine to Texas, I was impressed with the high school I was placed in. First day was impressive and scary, but I loved it! I adapted quickly but Midway High School was academically challenging because everything including the language were foreign. Now, I feel comfortable in my school environment and cannot imagine leaving it in order to go to college.
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Ryan High School
Denton Independent School District, TX
9-12
319
#15 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: I love everything about Ryan High School. The last four years have been so much fun! I wish the staff would've encouraged involvement in clubs more than they did. Overall, it was great experience and I'm sad it's all coming to an end. With graduation right around the corner, I'm starting to regret all the things I didn't do at Ryan. I should've applied myself to my classes in which I was provided with amazing teachers. Ryan was beyond excellent compared to other high schools in the area. We are forever the home of champions.
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Cinco Ranch High School
Katy Independent School District, TX
9-12
572
#16 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Cinco ranch High school is a place where everyone feels welcome and school spirit is encouraged! The teachers are very helpful and understanding however, some can connect better with students better than others. There is much diversity when it comes to the type of classes that you can take, which helps you figure out what you do and don't like. There is also a large amount of school pride and spirit when it comes to sports, the students usually have a spirit section at all the games. The pride that the students and faculty have for Cinco is outstanding compared to other high schools in the district. Overall Cinco has taught me a lot in many different aspects and I would highly recommend this school.
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College Station High School
College Station Independent School District, TX
9-12
94
#17 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: College station high school is an amazing school! It's education system is more than satisfactory and it's staff is incredibly helpful and wanting to help students achieve as much as they possibly can. Although it's competitive, students have many opportunities to thrive.
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Lone Star High School
Frisco Independent School District, TX
9-12
321
#18 Best High School Sports in Texas
Alum: Lone Star High School is an excellent school located in the Frisco school district. The school has many clubs, from a chess club to an academic decathlon. They also have an excellent sports program, with opportunities for students to participate in football, baseball, softball, and many other sports. Lone Star also offers classes to students that will help them learn basic life skills. For example they offer an accounting class that offers their students to learn about how to do taxes, and learn basic financial skills for life. Overall the school has many aspects that prepare students not only for college, but also to live life as an adult.
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Churchill High School
North East Independent School District, TX
9-12
448
#19 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Churchill is a really really populated school with over 3 thousand people! I went to Alamo heights junior school for middle school and planning on going to Alamo heights high school after finishing middle school but my family had bought a house and was forced to transfer high school so we decided that i should go to Churchill. At first i really hated the idea, i didn't want to leave all of the friends i made from middle school, i didn't want to start over! But Churchill turns out to be a really good high school despite the amount of people it has in it. In the 4 years I've been studying in Churchill, I've seen 0 bullies and have never been bullied unlike middle school. It was a really competitive high school for ranking. Teachers, Churchill literally has the best teachers ever! They were the nicest people ever, they make learning environment better and classes more relaxing, shout out to Mr.Johnson, my favorite algebra 2 teacher. I would recommend this high school to future freshmen!
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Calallen High School
Calallen Independent School District, TX
9-12
160
#20 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Calallen is one of the best out there, and I wouldn't attend another school district even if I got paid! The teachers and staff are wonderful, and always help out whenever you need it. There's no other place I'd want to be than Calallen High School.
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Highland Park High School
Highland Park Independent School District, TX
9-12
139
#21 Best High School Sports in Texas
Alum: Highland Park, overall, is a very good high school. Most teachers are well-experienced, and the school is sufficiently rigorous. The school has a good reputation among colleges, and many well-performing students go to great colleges and do very well. Of course, Highland Park is desperately lacking in terms of economic and racial diversity (I was one of the very few people of color in my grade), but Dallas isn't and neither is any college, so as long as you don't get too sucked into "the bubble," you can easily expose yourself to more diversity.
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Wall High School
Wall Independent School District, TX
9-12
126
#22 Best High School Sports in Texas
Junior: Wall High School is a great place to attend if you love the country lifestyle and a little bit of competition. Both academics and athletics are highly achieveved here. The staff is wonderful. Teachers and coaches will do anything to help you out whether it's during school or in the middle of the night. If you're the new kid, don't be shy, people here are very friendly and within a day you will have a whole new life! The campus isn't overwhelming and there's just enough people that it's not to big or small. If you like to compete and have fun, Wall High School is the right place for you.
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Liberty Hill High School
Liberty Hill Independent School District, TX
9-12
163
#23 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: LHHS has been part of my life for almost 4 years. I have enjoyed everything it has to offer, even Algebra! The teachers are excellent and always willing to provide any extra instruction. The curriculum is flexible according to your needs and future plans. Extra curricular activities are abundant. The school spirit is contagious ...go Panthers!
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Wakeland High School
Frisco Independent School District, TX
9-12
428
#24 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: Everything about this school is exactly what you want for your high school experience! The academics and sports are great! Easily one of the best high schools in Frisco and all of Texas. You are given the opportunity to participate in the best of the best sports shown by the 7 state championships in various sports in the 13-year school history. To go along with this is the even better academics which propels and prepares students for the highest of college success.
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Mansfield High School
Mansfield Independent School District, TX
9-12
605
#25 Best High School Sports in Texas
Senior: What I liked about Mansfield Highschool was its initiative in that “Every Story Matters”. The teachers and the avalibility of higher education such as AP courses were excellent. At Mansfield Highschool the teachers were very passionate towards the students not only in academics but extracurricular activities as well. During football games or band competitions, there were many familiar faces. A change that I would like to see at Mansfield Highschool is the communication of information. There were times when students would miss the announcement and important information. Overall Mansfield Highschool is an amazing school with excellent resources and staff.
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Annunciation Orthodox School
Private School
Houston, TX
PK, K-8
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Parent: AOS is an amazing place! Warm teachers, administrators, and parent community. Challenging academics and faculty that are interested in capturing the hearts of young children to create a love of learning from early childhood. My young children (age 3.5 and 5) are exposed to a variety of Fine Arts, Athletics, Language, and other enrichment activities and we could not be more excited to see them grow into the mature, intelligent, and kind middle school children they have as role models at AOS!
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Lutheran High North
Private School
Houston, TX
9-12
48
Alum: I loved it, at first I was scared because I didn’t have any friends but then they made me feel home. Just to add, I didn’t know English when I went there and now I speak perfectly fine, if you’re looking for a family school where the students actually learn, have fun and feel safe and comfortable LHN is your right choice!
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Aledo High School

Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas

Trinity High School

The Emery/Weiner School

Cypress Ranch High School

Cedar Park High School

Cy-Fair High School

Del Valle High School

The Woodlands High School

Katy High School

Manvel High School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Tatum High School

Coppell High School

Midway High School

Ryan High School

Cinco Ranch High School

College Station High School

Lone Star High School

Churchill High School

Calallen High School

Highland Park High School

Wall High School

Liberty Hill High School

Wakeland High School

Mansfield High School

Annunciation Orthodox School

Lutheran High North