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El Paso High School

El Paso High School is the oldest operating high school in El Paso, Texas, and is part of the El Paso Independent School District. It serves the west-central section of the city, roughly south and west of the Franklin Mountains and north of Interstate 10 to the vicinity of Executive Center Boulevard. It is fed by Wiggs Middle School, into which the three elementary schools in its feeder pattern, Lamar, Mesita, and Vilas, graduate.

El Paso High School

"Pride of El Paso"

1916

Sandra Rocha

9-12

1,434 (2018–19)[1]

Orange and Black   

Tiger (Tiberius)

"The Lady On The Hill"

The Tatler

The Spur

El Paso High Tigers [1]

1600 N. Virginia St.,
El Paso, Texas

9.5 acres (3.8 ha)

1916 (1916)

November 17, 1980

– actor; class of 1958[4]

F. Murray Abraham

– musician and lead singer of the bands At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta

Cedric Bixler-Zavala

– Major League Baseball second baseman and coach[5]

Andy Cohen

– Major League Baseball pitcher

Syd Cohen

– actress

Norma Crane

– US Marine Corps officer, awarded the US's highest military honor – the Medal of Honor

William D. Hawkins

– U.S. Army brigadier general[6][7]

Charles S. Kilburn

– audio pioneer and engineer

Paul Wilbur Klipsch

– painter

Tom Lea

– swimmer

Will Licon

– actress

Lupe Ontiveros

– former U.S. Representative (D)

Beto O'Rourke

(Class of 1949) – former Mayor of El Paso (1977–79)[8]

Ray Salazar

– journalist[9]

Rubén Salazar

(Class of 1960) – real estate developer

Bill Sanders

(born 1927) – tennis player; World # 2

Dick Savitt

– playwright, consumer advocate

Sam Simon

– musician

Jim Ward

– politician

Richard Crawford White

– bronze medal winning Olympic basketball player

Francisco "Kiko" Martinez

The band The Hooligans

[10]

– circus giant, actor, salesman, artist[11]

Jack Earle

National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Texas

Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in El Paso County

El Paso Independent School District

El Paso Community College Local History Project

El Paso High School Population